Committee on Jewish Law and Standards: Vaccination and ethical questions posed by COVID-19 vaccines (January 1, 2021)… Read the rest
Author: David Freidenreich (Page 2 of 22)
Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, A halachic guide to outdoor winter minyanim during Covid-19 (undated, before Dec. 29, 2020)… Read the rest
Top 10 Questions Imams & Scholars Get Asked About Vaccines (Dec. 24, 2020)… Read the rest
The question of the use of vaccines, in general, is often at the center of controversy in the forum of public opinion. In recent months, this Congregation has received several requests for guidance regarding the use of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, which, in the course of research and production, employed cell lines drawn from tissue obtained from two abortions that occurred in the last century.… Read the rest
link to pdf (sometime between Dec. 16-21, 2020)… Read the rest
This is shared based on the guidance of our poskim, Harav Hershel Schachter, shlita and Harav Mordechai Willig, shlita with the support of Harav Dovid Cohen, shlita.
Halacha obligates us to care for our own health and to protect others from harm and illness.… Read the rest
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare systems worried that they would face very severe shortages which could significantly affect clinical decision making for physicians, patients and families. Shortages of ICU beds and ventilators created very real concerns about how to properly ration them, which led to wrenching life-and death-decisions.… Read the rest
[What follows is the version published on Dec. 1, 2020. Click here for a revised version approved by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards on Jan. 5, 2021.]
Question from Rabbi Ilana Foss (first asked before the Covid–19 pandemic): In recent years we have witnessed a growing phenomenon of Jews and non-Jews who refuse to receive common and accepted vaccines or to give their children vaccines against measles, rubella, polio and other contagious diseases.… Read the rest
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in consultation with community organisations, health and medical experts, the BBSI has been providing ethico-religious guidance to the community. At the outset of the pandemic, the BBSI, along with the other faith organisations, was invited to be part of the government’s taskforce.… Read the rest
T’ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
- Contact Tracing, Civil Liberties, and Public Health (October 2020)
