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A longtime Chabad emissary in Massachusetts was fired after months of social media posts in which he railed against pandemic-related lockdowns and mask mandates.
In more recent weeks Rabbi Michoel Green, the Hasidic movement’s envoy in Westborough for 20 years, encouraged his followers not to be vaccinated with the new COVID vaccines.
“It’s NOT immunization. It’s pathogenic priming & mass sterilization,” he wrote last week, according to Haaretz.
Anti-vaxxers constitute a small minority in Orthodox communities. In 2019, anti-vaxxers contributed to an outbreak of measles in Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Rockland County, New York, that was resolved through vaccination campaigns by government and community groups, as well as barring unvaccinated children from schools.
During the COVID pandemic, in which some Orthodox communities have seen little compliance with mask wearing and social distancing, misinformation about the new vaccines has been spreading for months. Green apparently had been promoting his anti-vaccine views since the 2019 measles crisis, but the posts intensified during the pandemic.
Rabbi Mendel Fogelman, director of the Central Massachusetts Chabad, told Haaretz that Green’s social media posts were “contrary to the organization’s mission and a direct conflict with the sacred task for which he was appointed.”
“It became clear that dismissal was our only choice,” Fogelman said.
Green was dismissed on Jan. 27.
THANKS SO MUCH,, IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMESֱ
If someone gets fired just on an opinion basis,
ReplyDeleteis the US becoming, real fast, like Soviet Russia ?
If you are advising people part of your job, and your advice can kill people instead of keeping them safe and healthy, then he deserves more than getting fired.
DeleteSafe and healthy?r u kidding?these vaccines are the dangerous things anyone can take esp old people esp for a virus that has been completely over exgarrated for a year now
DeleteI know Rabbi Green personally. While I do not agree with his position,
ReplyDeletehe is one of the most sincere people I have ever met. He truly and sincerely believes that there are dangers inherent in the vaccine and thus he speaks out. It is a Shanda that Merkos threw him under the bus.
Sam
ReplyDeleteI live in Israel and 95% of people over 65 are already past the second vaccine and so far B"H there hasn't been ONE death connected to the Vaccine ... not ONE ..
so stop with your BS