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News Did Rabbi Barry Freundel Treat Mikveh Like ‘Car Wash’ To Peep on Women?
Two new lawsuits aim to hold Modern Orthodoxy’s largest rabbinic organization responsible in the Rabbi Barry Freundel mikvah-peeping scandal. Both lawsuits allege that the Rabbinical Council of America and Freundel’s own synagogue were aware of inappropriate conduct by Freundel prior to the discovery that he was using a hidden camera to view women as they…
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Breaking News 61 Theater Chiefs Slam Firing of Theater J Director Ari Roth
Sixty-one artistic directors of U.S. theater companies denounced the DC Jewish Community Center’s firing of Ari Roth, the artistic director of its Theater J who staged numerous works critical of Israel. An open letter issued Monday said “it is absolutely clear that Roth was fired because of the content of the work he has so…
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Culture Theater J’s Ari Roth Knew Days Were Numbered After Feuds Over Israel
The break-up was on the horizon, but playwright Ari Roth didn’t expect it to happen quite so suddenly. On Thursday, Roth, the long-time artistic director of Theater J in Washington DC was fired — or he resigned, depending on who you ask. A press release sent to the Forward on Thursday evening by Theater J,…
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Breaking News Theater J Fires Outspoken Director Ari Roth
Ari Roth, the longtime director at Theater J, is leaving the theater after a period of tension over plays dealing with Israel’s history. The Washington Post and the Washington Jewish Week each reported late Thursday that Roth is saying the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, which oversees the theater, fired him after he refused to…
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Breaking News Orthodox Rabbinic Group Sued in Barry Freundel Mikveh Peeping Case
A lawsuit arising out of allegations of voyeurism at a Washington D.C. ritual bath added the Rabbinical Council of America as a defendant. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month by a third-year student at Georgetown University’s law school, initially named as defendants Rabbi Barry Freundel’s Washington synagogue, Kesher Israel, the adjacent mikvah and her own…
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Breaking News Jewish Student Sues Barry Freundel Synagogue Over Mikveh Peeping
A third-year student at Georgetown University’s law school is suing Rabbi Barry Freundel, his Washington synagogue, the adjacent mikvah and her own law school for allowing Freundel’s alleged misdeeds to go unchecked. The unidentified student’s suit was filed Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court by attorney Steven Silverman of Baltimore. She said she was lured to…
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Breaking News Rabbi Barry Freundel Fired by Kesher Israel
Rabbi Barry Freundel has officially been fired from his post at Kesher Israel over sensational charges he used a hidden camera to peep on women in the Washington D.C. synagogue’s mikveh. Freundel was arrested in mid-October and had been suspended from the Congregation without pay ever since. Due to the decision, Freundel and his family…
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Israel News DCJCC Cancels Theater J’s Middle East Festival, Prompting Censorship Debate
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include new information from Theater J. The Jewish theater company in the nation’s capital is struggling to find its footing in the face of increasing efforts by donors and funders to steer it away from dealing with controversies related to Israel. Theater J, a nationally acclaimed group under…
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