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Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray in Bnei Brak

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray near a plastic pool filled with water and fish during the "Tashlich" ritual in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv on September 20, 2015. The worshippers empty their pockets into the water well with few fish, in a symbolic cleansing of their sins ahead of the New Year. Sometime between Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, it is customary to throw bread crumbs into a body of water as a symbolic act of repentance. The Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, starts at sundown Tuesday on September 22. The day is a 25-hour long period of fast and prayers which begins at sundown and Jews have to repent for their sins of the past year before God.

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