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Orthodox rabbis in Baltimore and on New York’s Long Island in a video urge their community members to take the COVID vaccine ahead of the High Holidays. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Shira Hanau<\/p>\n

Rabbis in multiple Orthodox communities are urging their members to take the COVID-19 vaccine in the days before Rosh Hashanah.<\/p>\n

As cases and deaths from the Delta variant continue to rise in parts of the country, rabbis in Baltimore, Maryland, and New York\u2019s Long Island released video messages calling on unvaccinated community members to take the shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou haven\u2019t lived through enough?\u201d asked Rabbi Yaakov Bender, head of Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, before adding a sentence in Yiddish. Far Rockaway, which is home to a large Orthodox community, has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in New York City. \u201cWe in the community have to realize that if 99% of doctors say to take the shot, you take the shot. What are we, playing games?\u201d<\/p>\n

The video from the Long Island rabbis, which was released Wednesday, directly addresses one piece of misinformation about the vaccines that has spread widely in Orthodox communities: that they can adversely impact fertility for men and women. In the Orthodox community, where birth rates are typically higher than in the general population due to the importance placed on bearing children,\u00a0such fears have caused some to forgo the vaccine.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see no evidence of any kind of negative outcomes for fertility and no evidence of increased risk to women of childbearing age,\u201d said Rabbi Shalom Axelrod of the Young Israel of Woodmere said.<\/p>\n

Other rabbis stressed the importance of vaccinations to safely celebrate the High Holidays, which are often marked with large gatherings in synagogues and for holiday meals.<\/p>\n

\u201cTravel and celebrate the \u2018yamim noraim<\/em>\u2019 responsibly, get vaccinated now,\u201d said one rabbi in the Baltimore video, which was released last month, using the Hebrew words for the High Holidays.<\/p>\n

Some of the rabbis even thanked God for the vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018ribbono shel olam<\/em>\u2019 has given us a gift, safe and effective vaccines,\u201d one said, using a Hebrew term for God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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