Fewer than 150 attend vaccine education program in NY ultra-Orthodox community

https://www.timesofisrael.com/fewer-than-150-attend-vaccine-education-program-in-ny-ultra-orthodox-community/

Fewer than 150 women turned out for a vaccine education program in Monsey, New York, less than a month after the same hall was filled with many hundreds of men and women for an anti-vaccine symposium.

The women’s-only event in Monsey, a Rockland County town with a large ultra-Orthodox population, was hosted by a coalition of pro-vaccine Orthodox Jewish groups on Monday night, the local newspaper, the Journal News, reported.

It was for women only so that they would be comfortable asking questions, pro-vaccine activist Shoshana Bernstein told the newspaper. She also called women the “gatekeepers of health in the family.”