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Launched before COVID and focusing on measles, mumps and rubella, a pamphlet makes the case for science over misinformation.
Pamphlet by Emes group addresses issues that surfaced during measles outbreak in 2019, but authors hope it will have impact on COVID vaccine hesitancy
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, peppering Hebrew terms into his speech. “But if I won’t speak my mind I think it would be a sin.”
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 everybody will like what I say,” said Weiss, a leading Orthodox Jewish legal authority in Israel wi...