WASHINGTON (DC)
WUSA
[with video]
Debra Alfarone, WUSA
December 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — More women are coming forward and accusing Georgetown Rabbi Barry Freundel of possibly videotaping them as they disrobed for a Jewish ritual bath called a mikvah.
Freundel was a religious leader at Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown until shortly after D.C. police arrested him and charged him with six counts of voyeurism in October.
Now, three women are part of a civil lawsuit stemming from those videotape allegations. One of the alleged victims part of the lawsuit, Emma Shulevitz, says she was converting to Judaism in 2012, and Freundel asked her to take a ‘practice’ mikvah,
“I feel so hurt, I feel so disappointed, and I feel like finally there’s some understanding of what happened,” Shulevitz said.
Shulevitz says after she saw that the 62-year-old religious leader was arrested, she remembered something that struck her as odd.
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