The Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry is taking aim at a time honored, yet highly controversial tradition: the ritual of Kapparot. In the ritual, Jews have a live chicken swung around their heads three times, to symbolically transfer away their sins from the year… and then, the chickens are slaughtered and donated to charity.
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