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July 11, 2017, 10:44 am
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September 18, 2016, 8:48 pm
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Barry Freundel, who filmed women in mikvah, guilty of 52 charges of voyeurism, must serve 6 1/2 years in jail
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June 22, 2016, 6:05 am
Mikvah-peeping rabbi’s attorney appeals prison sentence
Barry Freundel’s lawyer says 6.5-year sentence handed down is illegal, needs to be limited to a year
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January 9, 2016, 10:25 pm
A year on, DC shul’s mikvah trauma slowly heals
As Rabbi Barry Freundel sits in jail, Orthodox synagogue Kesher Israel turns to a rabbi/psychologist to help pick up the pieces
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September 13, 2015, 9:25 pm
From across Jewish world, looking back at a tumultuous 5775
With terrorist attacks on European Jews, sex offender rabbis, and a Diaspora divided over the Iran deal, this Jewish year was one of few silver linings
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September 13, 2015, 5:48 am
The Jews who ruled the news in 5775
From the basketball to supreme courts, from peeping rabbis to whistleblowing ambassadors, a heap of headline-grabbing personalities
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September 13, 2015, 1:00 am
Rabbi apologizes for mikvah-peeping, but must Jews forgive?
As Barry Freundel expresses regret for actions, Jewish clergy note that whether to forgive remains up to the victims
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Uriel Heilman
September 11, 2015, 5:50 am
Read Rabbi Barry Freundel’s full apology letter
In missive dated Sept. 8, former head of prominent synagogue says he’s aware of negative repercussions his actions have had throughout Jewish world
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