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CONSIGNMENT AND AUCTION HOUSE

LE SHOPPE TOO PRESENTS

THE FISHER MANSION VINTAGE ESTATE JEWELRY COLLECTION.
SPANNING OVER 100 YEARS OF ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.

COLLECTION INCLUDES: HASKELL, WEISS, EISENBERG, TRIFARI,
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As private schools, Hillel and Akiva are
not obliged to accept religious or philo-
sophical waivers.
Parents can also request a waiver on
medical grounds for the rare instances
when a health condition, such as leukemia
or severe allergy, makes a child unable
to take the vaccine. Aldva's letter said the
advisory committee would review such
requests.

Measles Increasing

The CDC says measles was declared eradi-
cated in the U.S. in 2000, after fewer than
60 cases were diagnosed, all arising from
contact with international travelers.
Since then, an increasing number of
parents have decided not to vaccinate their
children, and as a result, the number of
measles cases has increased, as has the
number of pertussis cases.
Between January and the end of
November last year, 610 cases of measles
had been confirmed in 24 states.
Since then, more than 60 people have
contracted measles, most of them after
being exposed in December at Disneyland
or Disney California Adventure Park, both
in Anaheim.
Michigan's first case of measles, in an
Oakland County adult, was confirmed
in late January and may be linked to
Disneyland.
Nearly 10,000 cases of pertussis were
reported in the U.S. in the first half of
2014, according to the CDC, a 24 percent
increase over the same period the year
before. California, the state with the high-
est number of cases, declared a pertussis
epidemic.
Vaccines are effective because of a
concept called "herd immunity." When
a certain majority of the population is
immunized, the disease will not spread if
an infected person comes into the com-
munity. This protects those few who are
unable to be vaccinated because of health
reasons and babies too young to be vac-
cinated.
"Herd immunity provides protection
for those who can't be immunized, such as
newborns — and they are very vulnerable
to pertussis — or those with comprised
immune systems, such as people who
have had a bone marrow transplant:' said
Lisa Klein, M.D., a pediatrician with Child
Health Associates in Troy and Farmington
Hills.
"If enough people do not get immu-
nized, the barrier is lowered and diseases
can spread more easily. Even one case of
measles can spread quickly if others in the
vicinity are not vaccinated:'
Measles is one of the most contagious
diseases. Early symptoms include sore
throat, a hacking cough, runny nose, light
sensitivity and fever, followed in a few
days by a red rash. In rare cases, the dis-
ease is fatal.
An MMR shot — for measles, mumps
and rubella — is given to infants at about

12 months and again at age 5 or 6.

Jewish View
Jewish objections to childhood vaccina-
tions seem to come mainly from some
ultra-Orthodox groups.
For example, measles cases in New York
have been concentrated in the Borough
Park and Williamsburg areas, both of
which have large Orthodox populations.
Fifty-eight people there were diagnosed
with measles in the spring of 2013, one of
the largest outbreaks since 2000.
A story in the Jewish Daily Forward
says a CDC report on the incident showed
nearly 80 percent of the people who fell ill
were members of "three extended families
whose members declined use of measles
vaccine:' Nine of thosse who got sick in
Williamsburg had also refused vaccina-
tion.
Yet, a New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene representative
said 96 percent of yeshivah students in
Brooklyn are vaccinated, according to the
Forward story, and ultra-Orthodox insid-
ers in Brooklyn say vaccinations are near-
universal in the community.
Opposition to vaccines does not appear
to be based on Jewish law. Although some
vaccines can be made with gelatin or pork
products, Jewish law bans consumption of
non-kosher products, not injection, Rabbi
Menachem Genack of the Orthodox Union's
kosher division said in the Forward story.
Most Jewish authorities feel vaccina-
tion is justified by the principle of pikuach
nefesh, which holds that anything done to
save a life supersedes all other Jewish laws.
Pikuach nefesh was the concept driving
Hillel, where most of the students iden-
tify as Conservative, and Akiva, which is
Modern Orthodox, in their policy revisions.
"As a religious school, we can determine
whether refusal of the vaccine has any
religious merit, and we
decided it does not:'
Hillel's Freedman said.
"We are concerned with
the safety not only of
our students, but also of
the community."
Jason Miller of
West
Bloomfield, a
Rabbi Jason
Conservative
rabbi who
Miller
has three children at
Hillel, said he was very
happy with
decision. Just one unvac-
cinated child at the school would put all the
children at risk
"A core ethic of Judaism is pikuach
nefesh," he said. "With modern medicine,
we understand that it is essential for good
health that babies and young children
receive vaccinations on the required sched-
ule. Not receiving these vaccinations puts
that individual's life at risk as well as count-
less others. I argue that refusing vaccina-
tions is antithetical to living in accordance
with Jewish law:'

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