Legal Opinion
Jane Doe 1 v. Georgetown Synagogue-Kesher Israel Congregation
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 24, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2015-0026PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
For twenty-five years, Bernard Fruen-del was the sole rabbi for Kesher Israel Congregation, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Washington, D.C. During his tenure, he advocated for the construction of a nearby mikvah — a Jewish ritual bath most frequently used by married Orthodox women as well as by women undergoing the process of converting to Judaism — and served as its supervising rabbi after it opened in 2005. Earlier this year, Fruen-dal pled guilty, in a District of Columbia criminal proceeding, to illicitly filming…
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