An Ultra Orthodox Jewish woman swings a chicken over her head during the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on October 6, 2011. The Jewish ritual is supposed to transfer the sins of the past year to the chicken and is performed before Yom Kippur, which this year starts at sunset on October 7.
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An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his family during the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on October 6, 2011.
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An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks after his chicken during the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on October 6, 2011.
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An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken above the heads of his children during the Kaparot ceremony in the religious city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, on October 4, 2011.
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Ultra Orthodox Jews pray near a plastic pool filled with water and live fishes as they perform the Tashlich ritual in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on October 6, 2011. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water. It is performed one day before Yom Kippur.
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Ultra Orthodox Jews fill a plastic pool with water and live fishes in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on October 6, 2011.
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A man jogs past an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man praying on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011.
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Ultra Orthodox Jewish men pray on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011.
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