Zvi Sep/Oct 2003

We are again approaching Yom Kippur, this most solemn of days, when people ask the Lord to forgive their sins. And what is more, they are so sure that when they come with their “sacrifices,” their sins will be forgiven. But what do they come with? They come with chickens. Many an ultra-Orthodox or Orthodox Jew here will take a poor little chicken, swing it in a circle over his head three ti