WASHINGTON (DC)
JTA
By Suzanne Pollak
August 20, 2015
WASHINGTON (Washington Jewish Week via JTA) – When prominent Washington, D.C., Rabbi Barry Freundel was arrested last year for secretly videotaping dozens of women using the mikvah, the ritual’s sense of sacredness was shattered for some local Jewish women.
Local artist Rena Fruchter recently spearheaded a community project to put the pieces back together: A mural created by female members of Orthodox Ohev Sholom – The National Synagogue in Washington inside their mikvah.
After months of work, the mural was dedicated on Sunday.
The project gave the women “something they could own, something they could feel part of,” said Fruchter. It allowed them to take “something shattered; make something whole.”
“We have a broken system. We don’t throw it out. We take the pieces. We put them together and make something beautiful together.”
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