December 27, 2020
9:59 pm
Rabbi Hershel Schachter, who received the coronavirus vaccine Thursday at ParCare, a clinic that is now being criminally investigated for administering vaccines to members of the public, said he would not have gotten the vaccine if he had known it was illegal. (Screenshot from YouTube)
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(JTA) — Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a leading Modern Orthodox rabbi who received a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at a clinic now under investigation for improperly administering the vaccine, said he was led to believe that the vaccination was above board.
Schachter and Rabbi Mordechai Willig, both head teachers at Yeshiva University and major authorities on Jewish law, were photographed getting the vaccine through ParCare Community Health Network, a network of clinics serving Orthodox communities in and around New York City. State health officials say ParCare gave the vaccine to members of the public before that was allowed and may have obtained the vaccines “fraudulently.”