After Rabbi Barry Freundel’s arrest, would-be converts say there’s a wider problem in Orthodox conversion than voyeurism: lack of clarity and consistency about the requirements and timetable.
If the allegations against the prominent Washington rabbi are true, they confirm the worst suspicions about the status of women in Orthodox Judaism, Elana Sztokman writes.
The voyeurism charges against Rabbi Barry Freundel, who allegedly used secret cameras to spy on women in the shower at Kesher Israel’s mikvah, do not invalidate the Orthodox conversions he oversaw, the main modern Orthodox rabbinical association said.