Zoe: Michael’s Corner – the Jewish practice of “kapparot”, prior to the Day of Atonement, involves swinging a chicken around your head three times and then handing it over to be slaughtered so that you may be blessed with a good, peaceful life.

(L_R) Chaim Halperin (from Isreal) and Aurohom Schtroks (from London) take part in a age old custom that on Yom Kippur Eve Jews take live chickens,…