Pictures of the Week: September 7 – September 13, 2002

An Orthodox Jew swings a live chicken above his head as he recites prayers during the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem
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Atonement
An Orthodox Jew swings a live chicken above his head as he recites prayers during the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. The ceremony is supposed to transfer the sins of the year to the chicken before Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement

Thursday, Sep 12, 2002