Judaism & Vicarious Atonement

One of the things we regularly hear from anti-missionaries is that Judaism does not believe in vicarious atonement. Christianity has it all wrong. Well, those statements are made for the consumption of outsiders. Insiders know that on Yom Kippur there is the tradition of Kapparot. Here is a video outlining most of the ceremony. It stops just prior to the folks killing the chickens by way of cutting the neck. Also, I think I can safely say that most observant folks wouldn't wave a cardboard box over their heads, but would instead hold the chicken directly and wave it over their heads.

Kaporos from the Artscroll Siddur

Children of Man, who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, shackled in affliction and iron. He removed them from darkness and the shadow of death, and broke open their shackles. The fools - because of their sinful path and their iniquities they were afflicted. Their soul abhorred all food, and they reached the portals of death. then they cried out of Hashem in their distress; from their woes He spared them. He dispatched His word and cured them, and let them escape their destruction. Let them thank Hashem for His kindness and for His wonders to mankind. If there will be for someone but a single defending angel out of a thousand to declare a man's uprightness on his behalf, then He will be gracious to him and say "Redeem him from descending to the Pit; I have found atonement."

This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement. This rooster will go to its death while I will enter and go to a good, long life, and to peace.