(10 Oct 2024)
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Jerusalem - 10 October 2024
1. Ultra-Orthodox man performing the kaparot ritual
2. Ultra-Orthodox woman performing the kaparot ritual
3. Ultra-Orthodox men talking next to the cages of chicken
4. Chicken in a basket, man with his children
5. Ultra-Orthodox man performing the kaparot ritual
6. Ultra-Orthodox man putting a chicken in a box
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Gold, Jerusalem resident:
"This year is very different for many people. And I know even a lot of religious people, they are on the battlefield and on the battlefield, you're not able to fast, you have to eat and it's a very, very different situation."
8. People praying at entrance of the synagogue
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Gold, Jerusalem resident:
"A few days ago was Rosh Hashana (Jewish new year), and I was in a very small village actually. And people there and today (that day) the holiday was for three days and like part of the people, part of the fathers of the homes, they left families behind and they went into Lebanon and it's very intense because it's coming together with that, that we are praying for a new year and a great year actually, and a safe year here. So it's very affecting the holidays there, it's very different."
10. People walking passed a sukkah (for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot next week)
STORYLINE:
Ultra-Orthodox Jews selected chickens to be used in the Kaparot ritual in Jerusalem Thursday.
Observant Jews believe the ritual transfers one’s sins from the past year into the chicken and is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which starts at sundown Friday.
"This year is very different for many people," said one Jerusalem resident, Joe Gold.
Gold explained that the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon were affecting this year's celebrations.
"Even a lot of religious people, they are on the battlefield and on the battlefield, you're not able to fast, you have to eat and it's a very, very different situation," he said.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, known as "Haredim", make up around 13.5 % of the country’s population.
The cloistered community has long been at odds with the secular majority, clashing over military conscription, their integration into the workforce and the basic tenets that guide their lives.
Haredi Jews in Israel also are growing faster than any other group, at about 4% annually.
AP video shot by Alon Bernstein
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