The rabbi at the centre of a police investigation into an alleged historical sexual assault plays a key role at several Orthodox schools in London, including one of the UK’s largest Jewish primary schools for girls. Rabbi Chaim Halpern is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police over claims he assaulted a women who came to…
DetailsWashington D.C. — The estranged wife of Rabbi Barry Freundel, who pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping women in his Orthodox synagogue’s mikvah, spoke publicly for the first time since his arrest in October.
WASHINGTON — A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping scores of women in a changing room of a Jewish ritual bath was sentenced Friday to 6 1/2 years in prison.
Rabbi Barry Freundel is appealing the length of his prison sentence for filming women nude at a ritual bath.
An Ashdod rabbi was sentenced to three years in jail for molesting three boys he taught at a religious elementary school.
The Southern District Prosecutor’s Office served an indictment on Monday in the Be’er Sheva District Court against Rabbi Avraham Shemesh, a teacher in an ultra-Orthodox school in Ashdod, for committing indecent acts against three of his male students, aged 13-14, on many occasions.
A man who was sexually assaulted by a West Rogers Park rabbi when he was a teenager told a Cook County judge Wednesday that his emotional pain has been so debilitating, his relationship with his family suffered and he cannot hold a full-time job.
A West Rogers Park rabbi on Monday was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2006.
In February 2013, late in the evening hours in a secret apartment in Jerusalem, the family members of a young woman from southern Israel found out where she was, after a long period of not seeing her. Not long before, they found out that she was about to get married, so they decided to take…
DetailsMaryland – An Orthodox rabbi who pleaded guilty to videotaping nude women in a ritual bath in Washington has resigned from his post at Towson University in Maryland. WJZ-TV reports that Barry Freundel, who pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism and admitted to secretly videotaping women in the changing room of a ritual bath…
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