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Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ritual, where a person swings a live chicken or a bundle of coins over one's head three times, symbolically transferring his sins to the chicken or coins, on September 20, 2015 at Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood The coins or the chicken will later be donated to charity. Kapparot are preformed prior to Yom Kippur, the most sacred holyday to Judaism.***ISRAEL OUT*** (Photo by Omer Messinger/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ritual, where a person swings a live chicken or a bundle of coins over one's head three times, symbolically transferring his sins to the chicken or coins, on September 20, 2015 at Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood The coins or the chicken will later be donated to charity. Kapparot are preformed prior to Yom Kippur, the most sacred holyday to Judaism.***ISRAEL OUT*** (Photo by Omer Messinger/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)