{"id":178530,"date":"2018-11-03T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/03\/not-what-i-expected-in-lakewood\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:18:00","slug":"not-what-i-expected-in-lakewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/03\/not-what-i-expected-in-lakewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Not What I Expected in Lakewood"},"content":{"rendered":"
For those of you who don’t know, Lakewood, New Jersey has a large Orthodox Jewish community and dozens of religious schools.<\/div>\n

This is not a community that I would generally considered to be “woke” on the issue of vaccinations, but the shuls and yeshivas in the area are refusing to admit people without vaccinations<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The measles outbreak continues to grow, thanks to the anti-vaxxers, and now some Shuls are sending a strong message to them. <\/p>\n

According to TLS<\/a>, a few Shuls in Lakewood have sent out letters to their Mispallelim that they should not bring anyone who was not vaccinated into the building. <\/p>\n

A number of Lakewood schools have also taken a stance, and have informed their parent body that children who are not vaccinated are not permitted into school.<\/p>\n

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The Viznitz Monsey Girls School announced<\/a> that any child who is not immunized, can\u2019t return to school for 21 days. No \u201creligious exemption\u201d is accepted. A religious exemption does not work when there is a measles outbreak. <\/p>\n

Rockland County\u2019s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, announced Wednesday that all schools in the Village of New Square are now required to keep students who are un-vaccinated or under-vaccinated against the disease home until 21 days have passed since the last case of measles is confirmed in the county. <\/p>\n

So far, the county has given more two thousand doses of the measles vaccine<\/a>, referred to as MMR. Ruppert is urging parents to make sure their whole families vaccination history.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They should have done this months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don’t know, Lakewood, New Jersey has a large Orthodox Jewish community and dozens of religious schools. This is not a community that I would generally considered to be “woke” on the issue of vaccinations, but the shuls and yeshivas in the area are refusing to admit people without vaccinations: The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[460,380],"class_list":["post-178530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-public-health","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}