This Chicken Is Gonna Die, Kaparos in Crown Heights, New York, 2013
Kapparot (כפרות, Kapporois, Kappores) is a Jewish ritual practiced by some Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. The person swings a live chicken over one s head three times, symbolically transferring one s sins to the chicken. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor for consumption. Filmed by Natasha Masharova, Anatoli Ulyanov Edited by Anatoli Ulyanov FROM AUTHORS: Another part of Crown Heights is ChabadLubavitch Hasidic Jews, who don t like strangers and live in a very closed and conser
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