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This is largely centered in the Satmar communities of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County. From everything I've heard, rabbis have generally declared vaccinations to be not only kosher, but required by Jewish law. These groups, however, have decided otherwise.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/regents-meeting-1.36104372#user=5d543fe44b2ef4366b42b634&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon-Update
The meeting opened at 9:40 instead.
Thousands of parents statewide many of them from Long Island have been advised by local school districts that they must arrange for their children to be vaccinated within the first month of classes, or face their kids being barred from class. Families affected previously had obtained exemptions from inoculations on religious grounds.
In mid-June, state lawmakers voted to abolish the exemption, following the worst measles outbreak in the nation in 27 years. Many of the cases occurred in New York State, concentrated in Brooklyn and in Rockland County.
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Because of limited space, a few leaders of the anti-vaccination movement were allowed to attend the Regents meeting, while most demonstrators were asked to watch the meeting via closed-circuit TV in a nearby auditorium. Many, however, pushed their way through turnstiles and stood outside the meeting, where their shouts and pounding on a wall could be clearly heard.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)Just as with an objection to blood transfusion and the "thou shalt not mingle thy blood with the blood of foreigners", the Talmudic experts concluded that the preservation of life outweighed transgressions of Mosaic law.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts).
This ought to be good.
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)No real loss. This is a fact based site with no room for woo.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Rubella
Chickenpox
et al
((nice craters on the skin...))
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Make sure you are immune to measles.
The initial jabs were not totally effective.
That's why I got re-tested when I went back overseas.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But why not just get revaccinated? Rolled up my sleeve and Im all good.