Rockland County, NY – Fewer than 150 women turned out for a vaccine education program in Monsey, New York, less than a month after the same hall was filled with many hundreds of men and women for an anti-vaccine symposium.
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The women’s-only event in Monsey, a Rockland County town with a large haredi Orthodox population, was hosted by a coalition of pro-vaccine Orthodox Jewish groups on Monday night, the local newspaper, the Journal News, reported.
It was for women only so that they would be comfortable asking questions, pro-vaccine activist Shoshana Bernstein told the newspaper. She also called women the “gatekeepers of health in the family.”
Bernstein is the author, with the Orange County Health Department, of a vaccine informational booklet called “Tzim Gezint,” which means “Be Healthy” in Yiddish. It was distributed to the Rockland Jewish community.
The program allowed women to visit booths and ask questions of individual doctors and other healthcare professionals.
The event came less than a month after a symposium with leaders of the anti-vaccination movement attended by hundreds of haredim. That event included a range of speakers who defy the medical consensus and urge families not to get their children vaccinated. They include Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British physician whose study linking measles vaccines with autism has been both debunked and condemned, appearing via Skype; and pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Palevsky.
Orthodox communities in New York City and Rockland County are at the center of the worst measles outbreak since 1992. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Thursday said Thursday that there had been 550 confirmed cases of measles in New York City between Sept. 2018 and May 29. Rockland County officials said 254 cases of measles had been reported there as of May 28.
Yeah. Big success… Hall was empty. Misleading headline.
” empty hall… Vs jammed and the x-Vax rally” the nonsense that the anti-vax small tiny crazy group is collapsing, just as the danger of measles since no one is dying is falling flat on everybody’s face…
Most Frum parents dont need any education about vaccination. They listen to what the doctors tell them.
There are very few parents who are getting confused by the crazy anti vaxxers.
The Meshuggna small minority anti vaxxers are causing a great Chillul Hashem and are inciting anti-Semites.
FIGHTING BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE IS THE BIG CHILUL HASHEM. YOU WANT TO VACCINATE DO IT, YOU DON’T WANT DON’T. WHY DO WE HAVE TO FIGHT TRYING TO CONVINCE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME AS I DO. THE STUDY SHOWS THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO GOT INFECTED WERE VACCINATED. PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO LEARN ABOUT ALTERNATE METHODS.
Just about all the presenters, sponsors and pusher of this forum get the money at the public trough, why didn’t they announce in the interest of transparency how much government $$$$ they get. I am not pro or any vax, just anti hypocrisy.
Believing that those that are not vaccinated are infecting your children is the problem. Show me scientific PROOF that they are disease carriers. I vaccinated my kids and don’t trust anyone. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated can infect anyone. Yes, in every outbreak more vaccinated get infected. And don’t forget that the MMR is a live vaccine. In Disney 38% were vaccine induced measles. Here no one is talking about it or saying the truth of which strain is going around. In our community, the unvaccinated went to lengths to expose themselves and kids because their healthy kids were sent home from school. This was their only way to get back to school. This whole situation is crazy. The vaccinated are told they don’t have measles and are walking around infecting others until they feel bad enough to land in the hospital or stay home. Open up your eyes and really listen to what is going on.