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The Washington, DC rabbi Barry Freundel was arrested last October on a charge of voyeurism.

Prominent Washington DC rabbi Barry Freundel, who is accused of covertly videotaping nude women at a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, had recorded more than 150 women, prosecutors said Wednesday, February 11.

Freundel was originally charged last year, based on the accusations of six women. It is only now that the scope of Freundel’s alleged transgressions has been revealed.

Freundel was suspended from all duty by the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) following his October 14 arrest on a voyeurism charge. Prior to the suspension, Freundel was one of the leading conversion rabbis in the United States, Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.

President of the RCA, Rabbi Leonard Matanky, confirmed that the alleged voyeurism incidents took place at the mikveh adjacent to the Kesher Israel Congregation, a synagogue that Freundel was a part of for over 25 years.

Matanky called the peeping a “terrible, awful violation of privacy and of the sanctity of the mikveh.”

The 62-year-old rabbi is accused of placing a hidden video camera in the women’s changing room in the National Capital Mikveh. At least six videos of women undressing were uncovered by police in Freundel’s home.

The Jewish Daily Forward reported that the RCA already conducted an investigation of Freundel regarding an “unrelated accusation of sexual misbehavior”, though no concrete evidence was found and no action was taken.

Freundel is notable for his rigid support of a high moral code, and was described as “aloof and intellectual”.

Appearing before the District of Columbia Superior Court the day after his arrest, Freundel plead “not guilty” to the charges.

(i24News)

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