Barry Freundel

Freundel apologizes for mikvah-peeping, but must Jews forgive?

“The demand for forgiveness by the perpetrator to the victim is often a second form of abuse,” said Rabbi Mark Dratch of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Mikvah-peeping rabbi Barry Freundel issues public apology

“No matter how many times I attempt to apologize, it will never be enough,” Freundel wrote in his Sept. 8 letter.

After Freundel scandal, Washington Jewish women reclaim mikvah with mural

Creating a mural inside their synagogue allowed the women to take “something shattered; make something whole,” said artist Rena Fruchter, who led the project.