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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Women who were secretly videotaped by a once-prominent Orthodox rabbi as they used a Jewish ritual bath would get at least $25,000 each under a proposed $14.25 million settlement of ...

A former rabbi in Washington, D.C., who served time behind bars for spying on women as they took part in a Jewish ritual bath has been released more than a year early. Bernard Freundel had been ...

A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who secretly videotaped nude women at a Jewish ritual bath in Washington was released early from prison amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bernard Freundel got released ...

WASHINGTON — A former rabbi who secretly videotaped nude women at a Jewish ritual bath in Washington has been released early from prison amid the coronavirus pandemic. News outlets report 68-year-old ...

For millennia, observant Jewish women have made monthly trips to a ritual bath called a mikvah for a kind of spiritual cleansing. In recent... Feminist Jews Revive Ritual Bath for Women Feminist Jews ...