These same evil people, yes very evil, who have covered up child sex abuse in every disgusting, unimaginable ways; Kaminetzky, Salomon, Kotler, Aron Schechter - dare to challenge the vast majority of doctors, scientists, and mountains of evidence and statistics about the importance of vaccinating your children from deadly infectious and communicable diseases. THEY ARE CHARLATANS BEYOND IMAGINATION AND ARE A DANGER TO SOCIETY AT LARGE!
Yet, nothing is 100% foolproof and can be compatible with every individual's genetic composition. Therefore you have doctors who have devoted their lives to the prevention and curing of diseases.
If your doctor tells you NOT to vaccinate your child, get a second opinion, as most intelligent people do with major medical decisions.
BUT TO LISTEN TO THESE RABBIS ABOUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE/MEDICINE THAT CAN CAUSE SERIOUS ILLNESS & DEATH TO YOUR CHILD AND COMMUNITY --- IS A CRIMINAL ACT THAT IS UNCONSCIONABLE!
If you received advice from a rabbi NOT to vaccinate your child or force schools to admit children that were not vaccinated, in many states and jurisdictions that is now ILLEGAL!
BRING IT TO MY ATTENTION - I WILL CONTACT THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES!
EMAIL:
a_unorthodoxjew@yahoo.com
Rabbis Instruct: Vaccinate the Kids
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| The Orthodox Union (OU) and Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) strongly called on Jewish parents to vaccinate their children. |
OU.org
Orthodox Jewish parents, like responsible parents across the United States, overwhelmingly vaccinate their children against measles, mumps, rubella, polio and the other childhood diseases for which inoculations are now almost miraculously commonplace.
As in many communities, a small minority of parents chooses not to do so. The ongoing measles outbreak demonstrates how this could bear very serious consequences, not only for their own children but others’ too, especially those medically unable to be vaccinated.
The Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) strongly urge all parents to vaccinate their healthy children on the timetable recommended by their pediatrician.
Parents who choose to not vaccinate often cite a medical study that purported to link autism and the MMR vaccine. The study was discovered to be fraudulent and was withdrawn; its lead author was found to have acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly," and his license to practice medicine in Britain was revoked.
Judaism places the highest value on preserving human life. It is well known that those facing even a potential life or death situation are instructed to set aside the Sabbath and other key tenets of halachic (Jewish law) observance until the emergency has passed.
Prayers for good health and for the complete and perfect healing of the ill are an ages-old aspect of Jewish tradition. But prayers must go hand-in-hand with availing oneself of medical science, including vaccination.
There are halachic obligations to care for one’s own health as well as to take measures to prevent harm and illness to others, and Jewish law defers to the consensus of medical experts in determining and prescribing appropriate medical responses to illness and prevention.
Therefore, the consensus of major poskim (halachic decisors) supports the vaccination of children to protect them from disease, to eradicate illness from the larger community through so-called herd immunity, and thus to protect others who may be vulnerable.
Orthodox Jewish parents, like responsible parents across the United States, overwhelmingly vaccinate their children against measles, mumps, rubella, polio and the other childhood diseases for which inoculations are now almost miraculously commonplace.
As in many communities, a small minority of parents chooses not to do so. The ongoing measles outbreak demonstrates how this could bear very serious consequences, not only for their own children but others’ too, especially those medically unable to be vaccinated.
The Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) strongly urge all parents to vaccinate their healthy children on the timetable recommended by their pediatrician.
Parents who choose to not vaccinate often cite a medical study that purported to link autism and the MMR vaccine. The study was discovered to be fraudulent and was withdrawn; its lead author was found to have acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly," and his license to practice medicine in Britain was revoked.
Judaism places the highest value on preserving human life. It is well known that those facing even a potential life or death situation are instructed to set aside the Sabbath and other key tenets of halachic (Jewish law) observance until the emergency has passed.
Prayers for good health and for the complete and perfect healing of the ill are an ages-old aspect of Jewish tradition. But prayers must go hand-in-hand with availing oneself of medical science, including vaccination.
There are halachic obligations to care for one’s own health as well as to take measures to prevent harm and illness to others, and Jewish law defers to the consensus of medical experts in determining and prescribing appropriate medical responses to illness and prevention.
Therefore, the consensus of major poskim (halachic decisors) supports the vaccination of children to protect them from disease, to eradicate illness from the larger community through so-called herd immunity, and thus to protect others who may be vulnerable.
The vaccination of
children who can medically be vaccinated is absolutely the only
responsible course of action. *
"Beyond
these arguments is our refusal to allow people to elect out of other
crucial aspects of public health law on the basis of religion. You
cannot object to a drunken-driving arrest, for instance, on the grounds
that you worship Bacchus and feel encouraged to have six shots of
bourbon before getting in a Chevy. You cannot refuse to wear seatbelts
because your spiritual beliefs reject confinement.
In a well-argued essay, “Vaccination in Halakhah and in Practice in the Orthodox Community,”
published in Hakirah, The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought,
Asher Bush, a rabbi, made the implicit point that on the subject of
vaccines we are in some sense regressing. He pointed to the case of an
Orthodox Jew who was arrested in 1896 in London for refusing to
vaccinate his child on the grounds that his religion forbade him. The
prosecutor in the case, who was also Jewish, sought guidance from the
chief rabbi of Britain. The rabbi’s conclusion, essentially, was that
the man’s contention was hogwash."