UNITED STATES
Haaretz
JTA
Barry Freundel, the disgraced Orthodox rabbi who went to jail for installing secret cameras in the mikvah ritual bath adjacent to his Washington synagogue, has issued a public apology.
“No matter how many times I attempt to apologize, it will never be enough,” Freundel wrote in his Sept. 8 letter of apology, which was posted Wednesday on the website of the Washington Jewish Week. “I am sorry, beyond measure, for my heinous behavior and the perverse mindset that provoked my actions.”
Freundel was arrested on charges of voyeurism on October 14, 2014, after members of his synagogue board alerted authorities to suspicions that he was secretly recording women undressing in the shower room of the mikvah adjacent to Kesher Israel, the prominent synagogue he led for some 25 years.
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