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A young Jewish boy keeps watch on the school gate during Kapparot in Stamford Hill, London. Kapparot is a custom in which the sins of a person are symbolically transferred to a fowl, a rooster for a male and a hen for female. One or two local schools use their playgrounds for this practice, it takes place at dawn.

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A young Jewish boy keeps watch on the school gate during Kapparot in Stamford Hill, London. Kapparot is a custom in which the sins of a person are symbolically transferred to a fowl, a rooster for a male and a hen for female. One or two local schools use their playgrounds for this practice, it takes place at dawn.