There have been a lot of proposals about how to open things up again, now that we are post-lockdown and with a nice percentage of the population vaccinated. Just to be clear, there have been a lot of proposals, though no decisions about any of this has yet been made. There are all sorts of proposals to open things up, and some of them by and for private institutions, only for people already vaccinated or recovered - proposals have recommended only letting teachers back to work after getting the vaccine, only letting vaccinated people go to concerts, yeshiva rebbe's must be vaccinated, yeshiva students must be vaccinated, employees, etc.
One noteworthy proposal was made, being to only allow vaccinated people back into the shuls.
Some might scream about this being anti-religious or anti-haredi. One might assume that such a proposal was made by someone like an MK such as Avigdor Lieberman or Yair Lapid, taking advantage of the situation to hurt the Haredim.
Actually this proposal was made by MK Yaakov Margi, of Shas.
While it sounds like a reasonable idea for consideration, I do not see how it can possibly work.
Who is going to be in charge of checking each person entering the shul? And guests who don't bring the vaccination paper with them won't be let in? And what about children who cannot yet get vaccinated - will adults be told to go to shul alone and leave the children at home?
Shuls are already hardly enforcing masks and pods and numbers of people allowed in and distancing (yes, some shuls are very strict about this, but many are not), does anyone expect that shuls can or will enforce that only vaccinated people can enter? Enforcing vaccination-entry only seems like a much more difficult and less realistic task.
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