Mikvah Voyeur Rabbi Had More Than 150 Victims, Prosecutors Say

By Shmarya Rosenberg
Failed Messiah
February 12, 2015

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Prosecutors told alleged victims of Rabbi Barry Freundel that Freundel allegedly secretly videotaped more than 150 nude women at the mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) located next to his Modern Orthodox synagogue in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. This confirms earlier reports by FailedMessiah.com and other media that number of Freundel’s alleged victims was likely to be at least 100.

Above: Rabbi Barry Freundel

Mikvah Voyeur Rabbi Had More Than 150 Victims, Prosecutors Say

Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Prosecutors told alleged victims of Rabbi Barry Freundel that Freundel allegedly secretly videotaped more than 150 nude women at the mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) located next to his Modern Orthodox synagogue in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, the AP reported. This confirms earlier reports by FailedMessiah.com and other media that number of Freundel’s alleged victims was likely to be at least 100.

Prosecutors held a closed meeting with a group of Freundel’s alleged victims Wednesday night at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, three people who attended the meeting told the AP.

Two of those three people reportedly spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the meeting while the third is a victim and therefore is not being publicly identified.

The current charges against Freundel – once one of the most powerful rabbis in America – are based on the videotaping of six women in the Capital Mikvah located next to the Kesher Israel synagogue Freundel headed for decades until he he was fired late last year over the voyeurism.

Among those attending the synagogue are Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and his family, and for US Senator Joseph Lieberman and his family.

Freundel invited potential converts to Judaism – almost all young, pretty females – to take “practice dunks” in the mikvah. He also brought pretty college students from Towson University in Maryland where he taught to do the same.