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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
A variety of jabs have long been required for kids to attend school, but with COVID-19 not yet on the list, it's largely up to individual districts or institutions to make the call
A few Jewish day schools have set vaccination deadlines for young children. More are sticking to encouragement for now.
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.”