Kapara ceremony in Jerusalem: child hands chicken to the priest, 2021 (photograph)

This rite is intended to charge an animal of all the sins that a person has committed in the past year. Tradition dictates that the father of the family buys and has his throat slaughtered for each member of his family.Chickens are slaughtered by priests authorized by the rabbis. You will see that the entrails and carcasses of slaughtered chickens are examined very carefully by rabbis: the slightest mark of infirmity or disease makes the animal unfit for consumption by Jews. Meat is not kosher. Tens of thousands of slaughtered chickens are given as alms to the poorest in Jerusalem. Chickens are slaughtered by Jews, but they are plucked and emptied by Palestinians.