UNITED STATES
WJLA
By Joce Sterman December 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (WJLA) – A class-action lawsuit related to voyeurism against Georgetown rabbi Barry Freundel has named the Rabbinical Council of America as a defendant and named two specific victims as plaintiffs.
Freundel is accused of secretly videotaping women in a changing area near a ceremonial bath, called a mikvah, at Kesher Israel synagogue in Washington.
One of the newly named victims claims Freundel made her do a “practice dunk” in the Mikvah, a Jewish ceremonial bath used in conversion ceremonies, ahead of her own conversion. The new complaint also indicated that Freundel encouraged students from Towson University, where he was an associate professor, to make “field trips” to Kesher Israel.
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