MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
By Susan Reimer
The Baltimore Sun
A Towson University student has added her name to a civil suit involving a Towson associate professor and rabbi accused of taking pictures and videos of women in a ritual bath.
The young woman, who asked that she be identified only by her first name to protect her privacy, was a student of Rabbi Barry Freundel when, she said, he encouraged her to participate in a mikvah as research for a term paper, even though she was not Jewish and had no wish to convert.
A mikvah is a cleansing ritual that is often a final step for a convert.
Stephanie said she believed as soon as the charges against Freundel were make public in October that she had been videotaped, too.
“I felt shock first. Total and complete shock,” she said in a telephone interview Sunday. “It took a while to feel everything else that comes with something like this.”
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