Non-immunized children are banned from attending Rockland schools that have less than an 80 percent vaccination rate, which includes 34 local private Jewish schools.

Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss on the Anti-Vaxx Insanity!

Rockland: Largest NY measles outbreak in decades reaches 68 cases

Rockland County's measles outbreak has reached 68 cases, with another 11 cases under investigation — the largest in New York state in decades — county officials said Tuesday morning.

The outbreak, which originated in Israel, has mainly affected the Orthodox Jewish community, primarily in New Square, Monsey and Spring Valley.

There are also 11 confirmed cases in Lakewood, New Jersey, and 24 in Brooklyn: four in Borough Park and 13 in Williamsburg, according to health departments in New York City and New Jersey.

The last large outbreak in the state was in 2013 with 58 cases when a teenager brought measles from London to New York City.

The New York City Health Department said all the Brooklyn cases affected children who were mostly unvaccinated or too young to be vaccinated, while Rockland health officials said the patients were adults, teens and children.

Rockland has a 94 percent vaccination rate, according to county officials.

Non-immunized children are banned from attending Rockland schools that have less than an 80 percent vaccination rate, which includes 34 local private Jewish schools.

Rockland health officials, with the assistance of state health officials, do daily checks at the schools to ensure that non-immunized children are not attending, officials said. The children will not be allowed to return until 21 days after the last known case of measles have passed.

County and state health departments, along with local physicians and health centers, administered more than 6,100 doses of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccines since the outbreak began in early October. Nearly 3,000 of those were given by the Refuah Health Center in Spring Valley.

The Refuah Health Center in Spring Valley

Refuah, which has a large Orthodox Jewish clientele and whose name is the Hebrew word for healing, has been working with the county and state health departments since the outbreak began.

The health center has been offering a daily “newborn mobile” parked outside the building for babies under the age of 6 months who are too young for their first shot, and a front-door triage where patients are checked for measles symptoms before entering the center to prevent exposure to other patients.

Symptoms, which usually appear 10-12 days after exposure but may appear as early as seven days and as late as 21 days after exposure, include a fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis (red, watery eyes) or runny nose. People are considered infectious from four days before to four days after the appearance of the rash.

Refuah has also been providing community education and outreach to residents about measles and vaccinations.

How it started

 

The first cases of measles came from three groups of travelers: one person visiting from Israel, one person coming home from a visit to Israel and three others traveling together after a visit to Israel.

Israel is in the middle of a measles outbreak with more than 1,500 confirmed cases, according to the nation’s minister of health. One child has died there from measles.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed 142 cases of measles and 11 outbreaks in 25 states and the District of Columbia as of Oct. 6, shortly after this outbreak began. An outbreak is defined as three or more linked cases.

Other recent outbreaks include one in 2015 when a visitor to Disney theme parks in California spread measles to seven other states and two other countries. There were 147 confirmed measles cases in that outbreak.

The year before had the largest outbreak in the country in more than two decades, when there were 383 cases among the largely unvaccinated Amish community.

Outbreaks are costly. The 2013 outbreak in New York City cost nearly $400,000 and took a total of 10,054 hours of manpower, according to a report by Dr. Jennifer Rosen published in JAMA Pediatrics, a medical journal from the American Medical Association.

A measles vaccine is shown on a countertop at the Tamalpais Pediatrics clinic on Feb. 6 in Greenbrae, Calif. (Photo: Eric Risberg/The Associated Press)

 

 

What is measles?

 

• Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus that is spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people.
• Measles can be dangerous, especially for babies and young children, as it can lead to pneumonia, brain damage, deafness, and death. About one out of four people who get measles will be hospitalized.
• There have been hospitalizations in this outbreak, including one child in Rockland who was in the pediatric intensive care unit, according to health care officials.
• Others who are at high risk for complications include pregnant women who are not immune, as well as those who are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed (when your body can't fight disease).
• Individuals are considered protected or immune to measles: if they were born before 1957; had two doses of the MMR vaccine; had a physicians or provider confirm measles; or have a lab test confirming immunity.
• The MMR vaccine is 97 percent effective after two doses. Those who are immunized but still get measles have much milder cases, according to county health officials. Typically the first MMR vaccine is given at 12 to 15 months of age and the second dose at four to six years. Vaccinations can also be given later or in the case of an outbreak, as early as six months old.
• Anyone who is unsure of their vaccination status should contact their health care provider. There are currently no MMR clinics scheduled. To receive a dose of the vaccine, contact your local health care provider.
• Residents can get more information about measles by visiting www.health.ny.gov/publications/2170.pdf and by calling the state Department of Health toll-free Measles Information Line at 888-364-4837.

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When Was The Last Time Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky Got Something Right? (Originally Posted March 28, 2018) (A Few Thousand Children have been sickened seriously since, and one child died) - Yet - NO RETRACTION BY THIS MEDICAL IGNORAMUS! Kaminetzky's issues of not issuing a public retraction of his idiot opinion is causing illness and death! He is either not well or is a rasha & a defacto rotzeach - You can tell him I said so!!

“What about the people who clean and sweep in the school?” argued Kamenetzky. “They are mostly Mexican and are unvaccinated. If there was a problem, the children would already have gotten sick.” “I see vaccinations as the problem. It’s a hoax. Even the Salk vaccine [against polio] is a hoax. It is just big business.”

SIGNATORIES: SHMUEL KAMINETSKY - MALKIEL KOTLER - MATTISYAHU SALOMON

R.B. reached out to Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, founder and dean of the Talmudical Academy of Philadelphia, whose wife, Temi, speaks out against vaccinating children. The rabbi wrote a letter on R.B.’s behalf, leading to her son’s principal relenting and apologizing.

When reached by phone, both Kamenetzkys confirmed their belief that vaccinations, not the diseases they prevent, are harmful.

“There is a doctor in Chicago who doesn’t vaccinate any of his patients and they have no problem at all,” said the rabbi.

 “I see vaccinations as the problem. It’s a hoax. Even the Salk vaccine [against polio] is a hoax. It is just big business.”

“What about the people who clean and sweep in the school?” argued Kamenetzky. “They are mostly Mexican and are unvaccinated. If there was a problem, the children would already have gotten sick.”

Sharon Billing, a Baltimore nurse and mother, said she once challenged Temi Kamenetzky at a lecture. “How can you advise young mothers to do this?” she asked the rebbetzin. “You’re old enough to remember whopping cough and diphtheria. As Jews, we are required to guard our health.”


Will Israel end child subsidies for anti-vaxxers?

The Israeli government is considering penalizing parents who refuse to vaccinate their children

 TEL AVIV (JTA) — Each month, the Israeli government sends a check to every Israeli family with at least one child. The more children you have, the more money you get.
 

Unless, that is, you don’t vaccinate your children.

According to a clause in the coalition agreement signed last month by the ruling Likud party and the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, Israel will not provide child allowances to families that refuse to vaccinate their children. Should the Likud-led coalition enact the clause as part of next year’s government budget, it would be a harsh penalty for so-called “anti-vaxxers.”

A 2014 State Comptroller’s report said that as of 2010 up to 10 percent of Israel’s children have “anti-vaxxer” parents.  Those parents, according to a 2011 University of Haifa study, come largely from haredi and low-income populations, as well as from Israel’s upper class. In addition, according to Arab-Israeli legal rights group Adalah, vaccination rates are low among Bedouin Israelis due to lack of access to health services.  

“There’s a phenomenon that people don’t vaccinate their kids,” said Yaakov Isaac, spokesman for Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who will set criteria for which parents will qualify for subsidies. “There are people — Bedouins, extremist haredim — who don’t trust the health system.”

Fears that vaccines are linked to autism — such connections have been debunked by the scientific research — are cited less frequently in Israel than they are in the United States. 

Those who support the clause say it’s a necessary public health measure, aimed at forcing the hand of those who refuse to vaccinate their children. A Likud spokesman did not return calls seeking comment on the party’s support of linking vaccinations to child subsidies.

The clause is the latest in a string of government attempts to use child subsidies to influence citizens’ behaviors and shape the contours of Israeli society.

Haredi Orthodox parties support high subsidies because they enable large families, typical of those parties’ constituents, to make ends meet. Secularist parties, by contrast, see high subsidies as a counterproductive entitlement that allows parents with many children to avoid working.

“Throughout the years [child subsidies] became a bargaining chip in coalition agreements,” said Noam Gruber, a senior researcher at the Shoresh Institute, a think tank focused on socioeconomic issues. “When you give a high child subsidy, it becomes normative that a woman will stay home and have children. That blocks the path to education and work.”

Introduced in 1959, the subsidies got higher as families grew larger. Until recently, the payments worked on a progressive scale, so that parents received a larger per-child subsidy for each subsequent child. A 2001 law penned by a UTJ lawmaker gave a family with one child approximately $40 per month, while a family with five children received about $600 per month — including a $200 addition for the fifth child. 

Facing an economic crisis in 2003, then-Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut the total subsidy budget by 40 percent. Ten years later, then-Finance Minister Yair Lapid cut the subsidies again as an incentive for haredi men — many of whom studied Torah all day — to join the labor force.

Lapid’s cuts, which are currently in place, replaced the progressive payment scale with a flat scale. Families receive approximately $36 per month per child, no matter how many children they have.

After payments began in 1959, the number of large families ballooned. In 1960, there were fewer than 40,000 Israeli families with four or more children. By 1975, that number had nearly tripled to 111,000.

“These families support themselves with subsidies,” Mickey Levy, Lapid’s deputy finance minister from 2013 to 2014, told JTA. “We addressed this issue to integrate these people in the labor force. When we were in exile in Poland, we didn’t sit and learn Torah all day. We worked and we learned Torah.”

The subsidies are one of several Israeli pro-natal policies, enacted in part to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel and replenish Jewish numbers following the Holocaust, Gruber said. Alongside the subsidies, the government provides three months of paid maternity leave and safeguards against firing pregnant women.

“We feel we need a higher birth rate,” Gruber said. “We don’t want to be in the situation of Western Europe and Japan, of a population that’s getting smaller. In the context of the Jewish nation, we want numbers.”

Now, with Lapid’s Yesh Atid party out of the governing coalition, and haredi parties back in, subsidies are set to rise again. The Likud-UTJ agreement includes a rollback of Lapid’s cuts, which UTJ spokesman Yair Eiserman said is part of a package of reforms to help poor Israelis — including, for example, free dental care for children.

“We wanted there to be a social change,” he said. “The last government hurt the weaker classes and the middle class. There were dramatic blows to national insurance, welfare. We saw to it to change the situation, to guide budgets to the weaker classes so they won’t collapse under the economic burden.”

Critics of the anti-vaxxer clause say it will hurt poor families. According to the 2014 State Comptroller’s report, as of 2010, the number of unvaccinated children had been growing, many from haredi or Bedouin families who refused vaccines either because of misinformation or an ideological opposition to vaccination. While Jewish Israelis, on average, had fewer than three children per family according to a 2009 Central Bureau of Statistics report, Arab Israelis had an average of 3.62 and haredi Israelis 6.53. 

“We cannot agree to a precedent that hurts children due to actions of their parents that the state does not like,” Yizhak Kadman, executive director of the Israel National Council for the Child, wrote in an email to JTA. “Cutting the child subsidies will unnecessarily hurt poor families and weak populations that are sometimes excluded from health services.”

Activists for Arab-Israeli rights also support high subsidies due to the above-average Arab-Israeli birthrate, as well as the community’s high rates of poverty. Eyad Snunu, chief economist for Arab-Israeli advocacy group Mossawa, told JTA the government should invest in Arab communities if it wants to increase labor force participation — not cut subsidies.

“The statistics show that immediate cancellation of the subsidies, without preparing the ground for employment training, only deepens poverty,” Snunu said. 

Gruber sees high child subsidies as an unsustainable burden on taxpayers. But those attempting to cut the payments, he said, should learn from previous cuts, which proved debilitating for poor families.

“They cut a lot of money from the subsidies and pushed families into real poverty,” he said. “On the other hand, there wasn’t enough emphasis on giving them the tools to enter the work force.”

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Jacob A. Farkas, 42, of Lakewood is facing three counts of burglary and charges of stalking and invasion of privacy after his arrest Tuesday, according to township police and records from the Ocean County Jail in Toms River, where Farkas was still locked up Wednesday.

Jacob A. Farkas, 42, of Lakewood

LAKEWOOD - Police have arrested a man they believe stalked a woman for three years and installed a video camera in her shower - in part because the woman herself fought back with surveillance videos of her own.

Jacob A. Farkas, 42, of Lakewood is facing three counts of burglary and charges of stalking and invasion of privacy after his arrest Tuesday, according to township police and records from the Ocean County Jail in Toms River, where Farkas was still locked up Wednesday.

Shortly before noon Tuesday, members of the Lakewood Civilian Safety Watch (LCSW) contacted police about "a possible burglary in progress," according to a prepared statement from police Lt. LeRoy Marshall. Police went to a Pawnee Road home where they found and arrested Farkas "without incident."

Police surmised that Farkas "had been stalking the female victim for approximately 3 years," 

Marshall wrote. "On three separate occasions, Farkas illegally entered the victim's residence."

Police believe Farkas entered the woman's home on Monday "and installed a small camera in her bathroom facing the the shower," Marshall wrote Tuesday. "The victim located the video recording device which prompted her to install surveillance cameras in the home last night."

On Tuesday morning the woman was watching a live feed from her own cameras "when she observed Farkas burglarize her residence once again," Marshall wrote. "She alerted her husband and the LCSW who in turn contacted the police."

Police Detective Michael P. Cavallo led the investigation with help from officers Jason R. Yahr and Kevin M. Bell, Marshall said. The High Tech Crimes Unit from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and crime scene investigators from the Ocean County Sheriff's Office also worked on the investigation.

"Special thanks to LCSW for their prompt notification to the Police Department," Marshall wrote.

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DSM-J (Diagnostic Statistical Manual-Jewish)

With its recent publication of the DSM-V, the American Psychiatric Association modified the “Bible” of psychological diagnosis to include the most recent research and understanding of the entire scope of psychopathologies currently known to science.  While the DSM has always placed an emphasis on cultural competency, sensitivity and understanding, many Orthodox Jewish clinicians felt the need to publish a more accurate and specific addendum to further address unique issues facing our community.  They hope this will help both the Jewish and non-Jewish psycho diagnostician formulate symptomatology into concise clear syndromes, and in turn create models for further research and treatments of these conditions.  Below are excerpts from this new pamphlet showing new diagnoses in several areas including anxiety disorders, addictions, personality disorders and thought disorders.     

ANXIETY DISORDERS

Employment Phobia:  Individual suffers from the irrational fear of any and all means of gainful employment which are defensively perceived as “Bittul Torah.”   The aversion to working occurs whether the individual is actually learning Torah all day or not. 

Non-heimishe Social Anxiety:    Intense fear of speaking to or associating with non-frum Jews or Non-Jews. Symptoms include avoiding public amusement parks except on Chol Hamoed, or social get-togethers.  Panic attacks can be triggered by exposure to people who are “not our type.”  Employment and opportunities for higher education are only pursued at “all frum” institutions.  To try to alleviate some symptoms, some may attend “Project Inspire” events that teach “how to speak to somebody who isn’t frum.”  

“Chamishi” Phobia:   The paranoid fear that an individual will get an Aliyah that does not reflect his self-perceived level of importance and status in the community, or even worse will not be given any kibbud at all.

Exposure Phobia (also called Pathological Sheltering):  The aversion to any books, newspapers, magazines, publications, libraries or anything associated with secular literature or knowledge.   Symptoms include banning of books including Jewish ones that show any respect for secular culture. Treatment for this phobia is made more difficult because “exposure therapy,” normally the treatment of choice for phobias is hard to do when the irrational fear is triggered by the very concept of exposure.   

SEXUAL DISORDERS

Culturally Accepted Pedophilia:  Individual engages in antisocial sadistic sexual behavior with minors up to and including rape.  This is accepted by parents of children who “do not want to make a shtink”, and condoned by Rabbis who do not want to see their friends and baal habatim go to jail. Starting up with children of goyim is not advised because there is a chance you will get caught and incarcerated.

Parental Finances Fetish Disorder:   Individual is only able to be sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex whose parents are financially able to support them and their children in the level to which they have been accustomed.

Female Marital Sexual Compliance:   Women who have sex with husbands who disgust them despite aversion or lack of desire, because their husband’s rabbi told them it is their duty. (Even though, in fact the only duty of this kind in the Torah is for the man to please his wife, not the other way as in some Non-Jewish cultures.)

Modesty Fetishism:   Obsessional concern with the sexuality of areas of the female body, feminine clothing, and pictures of females not usually considered erotic by most societies.  This condition is mostly found in men who “don’t get out much”, and are sexually frustrated because of being damaged by their all boys’ education, guilt over masturbation, traumatization by sexual abuse as children, or shame about homosexual experimentation.  As of late there has been an alarming increase in the prevalence within the adult female demographic experiencing similar symptoms.

People who suffer from this warped sense of sexuality often exhibit extreme agitation and anger upon being exposed to the elbows, ankles, knees or collarbones of females. They consider women who wear stockings that are “too thin”, or skirts that are “too long”, (yes NOT only too short) or whose top blouse button is left unbuttoned to be “whores” or “sluts”.  They boycott even the most religious publication if there are any pictures of females, whether an 80 year old Rebbetzin or a female infant in an ad for diapers.   Some cases are accompanied with visual hallucinations in which the sufferer can see the knees of a woman when she sits down, despite the presence of a thick skirt of a length that is several inches lower and almost is brushing the floor.  

THOUGHT DISORDERS

Koolaid Induced Thought Disorder:   Individuals who have been brainwashed into believing that every single thing they learned in Yeshiva was absolutely true, and that whatever the frum media wants you to know is all one needs to know about life.  Symptoms include a marked deficit in critical thinking skills, and a tendency to ask rabbis before any decision in life (from whom to marry to what kind of gefilte fish is best to be served on shabbos).  Koolaid drinkers often explain any bizarre, unethical or immoral behavior by saying “that’s what they oylam does.”

Gadol Hador Delusional Disorder (also: Daas Torah Syndrome):    Individuals suffering from this mental condition have belief systems not unlike those in the Bible in which people worshipped all manner of idols including human beings.  Similar to the Catholic Church’s espousal of the doctrine of Papal infallibility, Daas Torah seeks to imbue individual rabbis with the status of being omniscient and all knowing.  Thus, anyone with a long beard whose father owned a big Yeshiva and has managed to push himself onto the Aguda’s “Council of Torah Sages” is considered not only unarguably expert in matters of Torah and Halacha, but also in all other areas of life. 

Traditionally, leading rabbis were revered for humility and consulted regularly with doctors, army generals, scientists, government officials and other professionals of various expertise.  In the Daas Torah Syndrome, individuals believe that the rabbis with the best fundraising abilities for their yeshivas are able to make all decisions for all areas of life for all Jews.  That includes everything from which candidate to vote for, in a national election, to what is the best way to catch and stop violent criminals, to how to “cure” pedophiles”, etc.   For example, for decades a Yeshiva refused to fire a rebbe who was known to them to be sexually molesting children.   When adult survivors, were finally strong enough to stand up for themselves and all children and insist that the enabling Yeshiva be held accountable, the leader of a self-appointed committee of “Gedolim” publicly denounced the victims as “presumptuous,” and proclaimed that only the Gedolim can “divine” what the best thing would be for Klal Yisroel (which, of course meant letting the yeshiva off the hook.)

ADDICITION DISORDERS

Internet Addiction:    This diagnosis is not meant in any way to suggest or imply that the addict uses much more of the world wide web than is considered normal for healthy functioning people.  Rather what makes it pathological and appears to qualify it as addictive/compulsive behavior is the hypocritical public denial and disavowal of all things internet.   Individuals with this syndrome, organize regular mass demonstrations in which they decry everything from the danger to children of having any modern technology in the home (smart phones, video recorders, computers, gameboys, etc.), social media’s power to destroy otherwise healthy, happy, harmonious and loving marriages, and the catastrophic danger of allowing the allure of the “outside world” and “heretical anti-Daas Torah viewpoints” to seep into the consciousness of religious Jews. 

The denial and disconnect with reality is seen by the fact that the majority of Lakewood and virtually all of Flatbush has clandestine access to unfiltered Wifi in their homes.  The secrecy and the inability to comply with the self-professed moral values are the hallmark of pathological behaviors that are typical of an addiction. 

The particular uses of the internet vary from one frum individual to the next.  Many use it for news on current events, or to “get the raid” on what is really going in the frum community by reading Frum Follies or Failed Messiah.  These so called “blogs” are the only public sources of information on the Frum community that has not been censored by Pravda, the Yated, Hamodia or Yeshiva World News.  Many use it for pornography or to “shmooz mit viber,” while in some cases, individuals have been apprehended utilizing the web to troll for underage boys and girls for sex.  (They are usually helped to avoid jail time.  See Culturally Accepted Pedophilia, above, and Askanus Personality Disorder, below).

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Lack of Personality Disorder:   Individual has no capacity to think for themselves, create an original idea, develop any personal interest or desire for anything outside of what they have been taught.  They present as if somebody has sucked out their true identity and replaced it with a robotic computer program designed to conform in all ways to the community. 

 LPD is a tough differential diagnosis from Kool Aid Induced Thought Disorder.  There is an overlap, but Kool Aid victims do not always lose all of their personality.  Sometimes an integrated personality capable of its own individual feelings and thoughts will choose to “buy into” the party line out of laziness or out of a sense that “I gotta get a shidduch for my kids.”  On the other hand, the LPD sufferer can no longer distinguish between where he or she ends and the “frum community” begins.

Frummer Than Thou Personality Disorder:    These individuals tend to find new chumras to take upon themselves and soon attempt to convince others that this is the core halacha and act surprised and disappointed that others are not doing things “according to the mesorah”.  Frequently, loud, in-your-face, shushing behavior is exhibited in shul during davening, causing more of a disturbance than the actual talking during davening that is the aim of the shusher.   

Askanus Personality Disorder:    In this condition, also known as “Askanitis”, individuals are preoccupied with saving Jews including molesters and other criminals from going to jail by “working behind the scenes” and knowing “the right people” to pull strings.  Askanim do help the community in other ways, like intervening with politicians for sensitivity for the religious community’s needs (mostly monetary).  These “fixers” should be differentiated from "machers" or "tutzuchs" who do a lot of good for the community as well but are motivated by more simple rewards like being able to show off their involvement in Hatzala, Shomrim or Chaveirim (Hatzala for cars).

OTHER CONDITIONS OF CLINICAL CONCERN

Mass Religious Hysteria:  Communal overreaction to social concerns incommensurate with the magnitude of the problem, and responded to in an emotional, and impulsive way. (Treif chickens being sold in Monsey causing entire houses to be torn down; Indian human hair sheitels being used for idol worship causing bonfires to eradicate them, etc.)

Mass Relgious Paranoia:   The communally held belief that non-frum Jews in Israel want to eradicate all vestiges of Judaism or Torah learning.  This irrational belief is based on the call for Charedim help out by risking their lives together with all of the other Jews, in order to protect their own and other Jewish children from the multiple enemy armies of the Arabs. 

Medical Condition Resulting from Religious Eating Disorder:   Obesity and malnutrition stemming from the aversion to eating many types of fruits and vegetables because of hallucinatory perceptions of bugs.  Another etymological factor is the belief that cholent, kishka and kugel are the staples of a good heart healthy nutritional diet, because if it worked in “the heim” why not here?

He concluded that those who attended a vigil for the murdered Jews were "spitting in Hashem's face," using a Jewish term for God.

Orthodox Rabbi: Pittsburgh Shooting Caused by Gay Parents Holding Bris

 

He continued that attending a vigil for the dead was spitting in God's face.

New Jersey Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai Aderet publicly advised his followers not to attend a vigil for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting because the Jews were murdered during a bris for twins adopted by gay parents.

"Somebody came over to me and told me today that he got an email that people should go gather someplace here in town to give the Shema for those 11 people who got killed," the rabbi said in a video that has amassed 10,000 views. "And I still said, I heard it's a Conservative shul, I heard people drove on Shabbat, and I don't think people should join these things."

After remarking that Tree of Life was less strict than the sect of Judaism he adheres to, he went on to say his congregants should not attend the vigil because the local synagogue holding it had held a similar memorial for those murdered in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, which he said was "for men to men."

"That's the same people that invited the people two years ago to say Tehillim for those lowlives," Aderet asserted , referring to Pulse victims, whom he called "those sinners, trash."

Tehillim is the Hebrew word for the Book of Psalms, which contains some of the most widely recognized phrases from the Torah.

"That's reason enough not to join these people," said the rabbi.

He then referenced an article published in The Advocate on a report from the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh, a local LGBTQ group, that the synagogue shooting occurred during a bris or brit milah – a Jewish circumcision ceremony – for a gay couple's twins.

"Do you know what it says on the whole internet, it's called Advocate.com ... you know about who were the parents?" Aderet bellowed. "Hashem said it to me. Two men. This is a brit milah in a Conservative shul and the two men adopted the boy and did the brit milah, and you wonder why there was a massacre?"

He went on to link the violence in Pittsburgh to the shooting in Florida, mistaking the city of Orlando, where Pulse is located, for Miami.

"I'm not sorry for this disaster," he declared. "You attend a brit milah of two men?"

He concluded that those who attended a vigil for the murdered Jews were "spitting in Hashem's face," using a Jewish term for God. 

This is not the first time Aderet has made controversial remarks. In 2010, he made headlines when he crashed a birthday party held by Persian Jews on New York's Long Island and told guests that if they stayed they would be cursed with  “illness, bankruptcy, and tragedy for eternity."

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“Even if Mrs. Clinton were president, her picture would not appear.”

A Hasidic newspaper omits photos of Pittsburgh’s female victims. Its editor calls it standard practice.

The Nov. 2 edition of Di Tzeitung includes photos of the eight men killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue attack but no women.

(JTA) — The cover of a New York-based Yiddish-language weekly features, unsurprisingly, an emotional tribute to the 11 people killed in the synagogue massacre Saturday in Pittsburgh. Under the headline “The Martyrs From Pittsburgh,” the Nov. 2 edition of Di Tzeitung includes photos of only eight victims, however, all of them men.

Beneath the photo a caption reads “And three women.”

Readers outside the Hasidic Jewish  community tend to be outraged by such omission of women, living and dead, in the haredi Orthodox media. A headline in the Forward said the three victims — Bernice Simon, Joyce Fienberg and Rose Mallinger  — had been “erased.”

But for Di Tzeitung’s editor, it is standard operating procedure.

“This is a non-story,” Albert Friedman told the Forward. “The Hasidic papers have a policy not to post pictures of women. However, they are mentioned prominently in the story. They are not denigrated in any way.

“Nobody in our readership complains about it because this is what our readership wants,” he said.

“Even if Mrs. Clinton were president, her picture would not appear.”

It is the same newspaper that in 2011 ran an iconic photo of top Obama officials monitoring the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but photoshopped out then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a second woman. Di Tzeitung later apologized for deleting the women, though it reiterated its “long-standing editorial policy” of not publishing women’s images.

It said its readers “believe that women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like, and the Jewish laws of modesty are an expression of respect for women, not the opposite.”

Another haredi newspaper, Hamodia, also has a policy of not publishing women’s photos. It offered extensive coverage of the synagogue shooting, including on at least three covers shown on its website. Hamodia chose images that did not feature women, including one of the makeshift memorial in front of the Tree of Life Congregation.

Earlier this year, in an op-ed in The Times of Israel, Orthodox activist Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll wrote of growing opposition by Orthodox women to the photo ban in newspapers, books and advertisements, and urged Orthodox groups to call on publishers to end the practice.

“There are Facebook groups dedicated to the sole effort of changing these policies. These women want visible role models for their daughters,” she wrote. “They want to see people they identify with in the pages of magazines. They are hurt and confused at the notion that the very presence of a modestly dressed Jewish woman — or girl– is taboo.”

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11 new cases of measles reported in Orthodox enclave, bringing to 17 the number of children infected; 3 caught the virus in Israel where a baby died this week .....

NYC warns about measles outbreak among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn

11 new cases of measles reported in Orthodox enclave, bringing to 17 the number of children infected; 3 caught the virus in Israel where a baby died this week

 Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 

 

New York City’s Health Department is warning of an outbreak of measles in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community and calling on parents to have their children vaccinated.

The department said Friday that there are 11 new cases of measles in the Orthodox enclave, bringing to 17 the number of children who have been recently diagnosed with measles in Williamsburg and Borough Park.

Three infections, including the initial case of measles, were acquired by children on a visit to Israel, the department said, where a large outbreak of the disease is occurring.

On Thursday an 18-month-old toddler died of measles in Jerusalem, the first recorded death from measles in Israel in the past 15 years. According to officials at the capital’s Shaare Zedek Hospital, the infant was not vaccinated against the virulently contagious disease.

“There has also been transmission in schools with children who are unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated,” the New York department said in a release.

Health officials and community groups have reported relatively low vaccination rates in Orthodox neighborhoods. Some blame a faulty perception that fervently religious Jews are protected from infection by the relatively insulated nature of their communities, on top of rumors, unfounded according to public health officials, about dangers from vaccinations.

To counter this, the city Health Department enlisted community figures to encourage vaccination against  measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), including Rabbi David Niederman, president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, and Rabbi Avi Greenstein, executive director of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council.

“It says in the Torah ‘V’nishmartem Meod L’nafshoseichem,’ that a person must guard their health,” Niederman said in the Health Department news release. “It is abundantly clear on the necessity for parents to ensure that their children are vaccinated, especially from Measles.”

The Health Department  is working with local health care providers, religious schools and Orthodox newspapers to spread the word about vaccines.

Read more:

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-warns-about-measles-outbreak-among-orthodox-jews-in-brooklyn/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-11-03&utm_medium=email

 

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LAKEWOOD, NJ — Two more cases of measles have been confirmed in Ocean County, and the state Department of Health is now labeling it an outbreak.

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2 More Measles Cases In Ocean County 'Outbreak', State Says 

A pizza place and another restaurant are among the sites where others may have been exposed, the state health department said.

By Karen Wall, Patch Staff | Nov 2, 2018 9:48 am ET | Updated Nov 2, 2018 9:49 am ET

LAKEWOOD, NJ — Two more cases of measles have been confirmed in Ocean County, and the state Department of Health is now labeling it an outbreak.

Health Department Commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal said the two new cases are people who developed symptoms after being exposed to a man who was exposed to the measles while traveling internationally.

The two new cases could have exposed others to infection between Oct. 25 and Oct. 30, a statement from the Health Department said. The first case of measles was reported Oct. 24, but that man had exposed others before the case was confirmed.

"The Department of Health is considering this an outbreak of measles in the community," the statement said.

Measles can take up to 21 days to appear; those exposed to the first man, if infected, could develop symptoms as late as Nov. 11. Anyone exposed to either of the two new cases could develop symptoms as late as Nov. 20, the health department said.

Anyone who was at any of the following locations on the specified dates who has not been vaccinated or who has not had measles is considered exposed and at risk:

• Schul Satmar, 405 Forest Avenue, Lakewood; Oct. 13-Oct. from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day
• Eat a Pita, 116 Clifton Ave, Lakewood; Oct. 15 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
• CHEMED Health Center, 1771 Madison Ave, Lakewood; Oct. 17 between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. and Oct. 18 between 10:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
• NPGS, 231 Main St, Lakewood; Oct. 25 between 9 a.m. and noon, and Oct. 29 between 2:15 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.
• Pizza Plus, 241 4th St, Lakewood; Oct. 28 between 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Measles is a highly contagious disease and the state health department is working in collaboration with the Ocean County Health Department to identify and notify people who might have been exposed during the time the individuals were infectious.

The Department urges residents to remain vigilant for any symptoms of measles, including rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes. It can cause serious complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain).

Measles infection in a pregnant woman can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or a low-birth-weight baby.

Measles is easily spread through the air when someone coughs or sneezes. People can also get sick when they come in contact with mucus or saliva from an infected person.

What to do if you think you may have been exposed:

• DO NOT go to the emergency room or your health provider — CALL FIRST. Special arrangements can be made for evaluation while also protecting other patients and medical staff from possible infection. Anyone who has not been vaccinated or has not had measles is at risk if they are exposed.
• MAKE SURE your immunizations and your family's immunizations are up to date. Two doses of measles vaccine are about 97 percent effective in preventing measles, state epidemiologist Dr. Christina Tan said.

"We urge everyone to check to make sure they and their family members are up-to-date on measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine and all other age-appropriate immunizations. Getting vaccinated not only protects you, it protects others around you who are too young to get the vaccine or can't receive it for medical reasons," Tan said.

If you are planning an international trip, the World Health Organization recommends that adults or adolescents unsure of their immune status get a dose of measles vaccine before traveling.
Before international travel:

• Infants 6 through 11 months of age should receive one dose of MMR vaccine. Infants who get one dose of MMR vaccine before their first birthday should get two more doses (one dose at 12 through 15 months of age and another dose separated by at least 28 days).
• Children 1 year and older should receive two doses of MMR vaccine, separated by at least 28 days.
• Teenagers and adults who do not have evidence of immunity against measles should get two doses of MMR vaccine separated by at least 28 days.

Common complications are ear infections and diarrhea. More severe complications include pneumonia and encephalitis; as many as one out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children. One in every 1,000 children who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.

For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it.

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Pittsburgh paper prints Mourner’s Kaddish prayer on front page The city’s largest news paper hailed for its moving tribute to the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre

Say What You Want About Kahane, He Understood anti-Semitism!....."For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.... "

Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Open Letter to the World

Rabbi Meir Kahane, OBM, was a strong Jew who believed in a Jewish State that apologized neither for its Jewishness nor its willingness to fight to survive. He was vilified by the Left, especially the Israeli government as he gained popularity dramatically among the Likud voters, threatening the status quo. The Israeli Supreme Court outlawed his party as racist when it used quotes from the Five Books of Moses. He was assassinated by an Arab named Nosair on the streets of New York -- the same Arab who later stood trial as a co-conspirator of Shaikh Omar Abdel Rahman and received a life sentence plus fifteen years imprisonment for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, conspiracy to use explosives against New York landmarks, and a plot to assassinate U.S. politicians.

The following is a letter Rabbi Kahane, OBM, wrote to the world. It is a strong letter based on an unpleasant history, but a true one nonetheless. What rings out, however, is the clarifying distinction between the call by Muslims and Arabs around the world claiming victimhood and hatred and calling for murder and indeed terrorizing the world with actual murder, and this one Jew's proclamation that his desire is not to conquer or convert but to be left alone. With all of the Left-wing and Arab-based conspiracy theories of Jews manipulating the US government into war expeditions in Iraq and elsewhere, the simple truth is that Jews around the world would be happy to be just left alone in one little piece of real estate surrounded by more than 21 Islamic states with a collective land mass 649 fold greater than Israel's and a total population 49 fold greater. When Muslims can blame the Jew, the American, the European, and even the Pope for their misery and wretchedness, one might conclude that the condition they find themselves in is a product of their own making and constitution.

The text of the letter follows:

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD

Dear World,

I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel.

Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry.

Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily.

Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the Jewish people - upset you.

We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians and Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset.

We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us.

For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit. 

And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you)- and have you love us and so, we decided to come home - home to the same land we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.

Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please.

Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.

Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.

Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.

In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929. 

Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967?

And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?

The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbach-al-yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.

Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.

You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well think of how many times in the past you bothered us.

In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.