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by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor
May 4, 2018
This article was updated at 10:30 a.m. on May 9.
A letter was recently made public by nearly 40 congregants of Temple Oheb Shalom, expressing support for the synagogue’s board of directors regarding last week’s suspension of Rabbi Steven M. Fink for alleged sexual misconduct.
On the morning of May 3, members of Temple Oheb Shalom were notified in an email signed by the Pikesville congregation’s president, Mina Wender, that the synagogue’s longtime spiritual leader was suspended with pay.
According to the temple’s letter, the suspension came after allegations “of an improper incident of a sexual nature that may have occurred a number of years ago involving Rabbi Fink and a then teenager, who was a minor at the time.”
Also on May 3, an email titled “An Open Letter to Oheb Shalom” was circulated among a select group of congregants.
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