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vaccines
NYC Health Department: Yeshivas Must Exclude Unvaccinated Students or Risk Being Shut Down
Erin Ben-Moche
April 8, 2019
Chicken pox outbreak hits Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhood
Jewish Journal
May 17, 2016
The New York Health Department is investigating an outbreak of chicken pox in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Vaccines and Jewish camps: What parents need to know
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2016
“All of a sudden, bottles of hand sanitizer appeared all over,” said Rabbi Jason Miller, looking back at 2009, when the swine flu craze reached Camp Maas, a Jewish summer camp in Ortonville, Michigan.
No shots, no school: How SB 277 impacts local Jewish schools
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2015
On June 30, Senate Bill 277 was signed into law.
California bill to limit vaccine exemptions goes to governor
Jewish Journal
June 29, 2015
California lawmakers on Monday sent Governor Jerry Brown a bill to substantially limit vaccine exemptions for school children in the most populous U.S. state, following last year\’s measles outbreak at Disneyland that sickened more than 100 people.
California Senate votes to end beliefs waiver for school vaccinations
Jewish Journal
May 15, 2015
California parents who do not vaccinate their children would have to home-school them under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate, the latest move in a battle between public health officials and \”anti-vaxxers\” who fear vaccines are dangerous.
California lawmakers seek to end ‘personal belief’ vaccine exemptions
Jewish Journal
February 5, 2015
Responding to an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people, two California lawmakers said on Wednesday they would introduce legislation to end the right of parents in the state to exempt their children from school vaccinations based on personal beliefs.
Why I have vaccinated my daughters
Jewish Journal
September 23, 2014
I have two girls, ages three and eleven. My daughters have gotten every last vaccine I can possibly get for them. I have done the same for myself.
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