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129 shares Former chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, December 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/ via JTA) JTA — At the beginning of his weekly video Torah lesson, Rabbi Asher Weiss let his viewers know he was about to broach a contentious topic. “I know that not everybody will like what I say,” said Weiss, a leading Orthodox Jewish legal authority in Israel with a large following in the United States, pepper...

Orthodox Leaders Support COVID-19 Vaccine. Will People Listen? December 22, 2020 Head of Hadassah Medical Center, Prof. Zeev Rothstein, gets a shot of the Israeli-made vaccine as part of phase 2 of the clinical trial. (JTA) — At the beginning of his weekly video Torah lesson, Rabbi Asher Weiss let his viewers know he was about to broach a contentious topic. “I know that not everybody will like what I say,” said Weiss, a leading Orthodox Jewish legal authority in Israel with a large foll...

Orthodox Jewish leaders are telling their followers to vaccinate for COVID-19. Will they listen? December 21, 2020 4:19 pm A haredi Orthodox man waits to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bnei Brak, a haredi city in Israel, Dec. 21, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — At the beginning of his weekly video Torah lesson, Rabbi Asher Weiss let his viewers know he was about to broach a contentious topic. “I know that not e...