WASHINGTON (DC)/MARYLAND
CBS Baltimore
Derek Valcourt
TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — The popular DC rabbi accused of voyeurism apparently took some of his female Towson University students to the synagogue in Georgetown where he’s accused of secretly video-recording women.
Derek Valcourt explains the students were apparently part of a field trip in their religious studies class.
To be clear, no wrongdoing was alleged to have happened at the university, where the rabbi has taught classes since 2009—but any field trips the professor apparently took some of his students on to that synagogue could raise some red flags.
Respected rabbi and Towson University religious students professor Barry Freundel led the Kesher Israel congregation in DC for 25 years—until last week, when he was arrested on charges that he set up a hidden camera and recorded videos inside the synagogue’s ritual bathing area known as a mikvah, where women immerse themselves during sacred rituals.
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