Jewish Vaccine Stories

I saw this awful headline, and only because I've been conditioned to think this way, my instinct said, "But was he vaccinated?" https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5608388,00.html Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon Of course the answer is irrelevant. This is a tragedy, and it is very sad for the family and for a small nation which does its best to protect its citizens. In the end, the God-fearing person knows that people can lose their lives in all kinds of ways, least of which is the measles. This is not a judgment of anyone, nor of pretending to understand the ways of God. But it is questioning the clarity of those who KNOW that vaccines SAVE LIVES and who also KNOW that those who don't vaccinate are DANGEROUS to the VACCINATED. Having met many unvaccinated children, it is hard to tell which is most dangerous. (Answer: None of them. Some of them have better immunity than any vaccine could ever provide. Some are simply not si

Yom Kippur is upon us, and those of us who have been hurt by those who refuse to listen to us or understand us are having a very hard time forgiving. All we have done is choose a different way for our families. We wish ill upon no one. We don't care if you vaccinate or don't vaccinate. We know we are not dangerous. We know we are not carrying illness. We know we are not comparable to a "loaded gun" as some rabbis have suggested We know we are misunderstood by people who have come to view the vaccine industry as infallible, while not recognizing that this is a dogma which has overtaken minds Yet We have been maligned We have been shunned We have been ostracized We have been thrown out of schools We have been thrown out of shuls We have been thrown out of summer camps We have been yelled at We have been screamed at We have been called names We have had our human dignity questioned We have had accusations hurled at us that we are murderers, baby kill