The Rabbinical Council of America has formed a committee to review its conversion process two weeks after a leading Orthodox conversion rabbi was arrested on voyeurism charges.
On Oct. 29, the RCA said Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, its honorary president, will chair the committee to look at the group’s conversion process and suggest safeguards against possible abuses.
Others appointed to the panel are two female converts to Judaism, a female teacher of family purity laws, a psychotherapist and several rabbis.
The committee has been asked to report its findings and recommendations to the RCA executive committee by Jan. 31.
The move followed the arrest of D.C. Rabbi Barry Freundel who was charged with voyeurism for allegedly installing a hidden camera in the women’s showers of the congregation’s mikvah. He has pleaded not guilty. — jta