Chaim Amalek writes: “When Moshiach comes goyellas will beg us to take pictures of them naked. Of course we will refuse, as we will all be too busy learning Torah day and night.”
Nikita Levy’s career as a gynecologist at one of the most trusted hospital systems in the world lasted for 25 years. It took only one day for that career to come to an end.
On Feb. 4, 2013, one of Levy’s colleagues told supervisors at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore that she suspected the thing Levy was wearing around his neck during gynecological exams — it looked like a writing pen — was a spy camera.
Which it was. In fact, officials said, Levy had several such cameras in his office and on his person when hospital security paid him a visit a day later. Officials said they discovered Levy had used the devices to take photos and videos during his appointments, turning thousands of patients over 25 years into thousands of potential victims.
Levy was escorted out of the hospital, and less than two weeks later, facing a criminal investigation by Baltimore police, he killed himself.
A class-action lawsuit against the hospital soon followed. On Monday, attorneys for Johns Hopkins and for Levy’s patients announced that they had agreed on a proposal for a $190-million settlement to be paid to the victims by the hospital system’s insurers.
Levi was not Jewish. He was black. REPORT: “Johns Hopkins gynecologist Dr. Nikita A. Levy wrote an apology letter to his wife before wrapping a plastic bag around his head Monday and pumping it with helium, killing himself in the basement of his Towson-area home, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation.”
Has anybody used this PenCam or do you prefer to put your camera in the clock radio in the mikveh?
On October 14, 2014 police took [Rabbi Barry] Freundel from his home in handcuffs and, pursuant to a search warrant,[29] removed computers and other items from his house.[30] One day later, Freundel was arraigned and charged with six counts of voyeurism, a misdemeanor, for allegedly filming women while they were undressing before immersing themselves in the National Capital Mikvah, an independent facility that Freundel was instrumental in founding in 2005.[31][32] Assistant U.S. Attorney Sharon Marcus Kurn told the judge that Freundel “violated the laws up in the heavens and down,”[33] but he pleaded not guilty to these initial charges[34] and was released on his own recognizance under condition that he stay away from and have no contact with the synagogue and the mikvah,[35] which are located in adjacent buildings.[36]
The police acted after Kesher Israel’s lay leadership handed them a suspicious clock radio[37] the rabbi had placed in the shower room at the Mikvah, a ritual bath that is used as part of the conversion ritual, by married Orthodox women following menstruation and childbirth and by some Orthodox men before the onset of the Sabbath and major Jewish holidays. “Upon receiving information regarding potentially inappropriate activity, the Board of Directors quickly alerted the appropriate officials,” it noted in a statement published upon Freundel’s arrest and suspension. “Throughout the investigation, we cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so.”[38] A witness told the police that Freundel was observed placing the clock radio in the mikvah shower room and, when he was discovered doing so, he claimed that he was repairing the ventilation.[39] A police inspection of the clock radio found that it contained a video camera whose memory revealed surreptitious recordings of six different women changing — and footage of Freundel himself setting up the camera.[37] Detectives said that as many as 200 women could have been recorded without their knowledge. A forensic examination determined that several media storage devices found in Freundel’s home contained copies of videos backed up from the camera’s memory card.[40]
According to a search warrant,[41] Freundel may not only have set up spying and recording devices at his synagogue and at the mikvah, but also at Towson University.[42]
On November 12, district prosecutors told a D.C. Superior Court judge they needed more time to investigate and determine if there were additional victims. The court was informed that a web site was being created in order to reach other victims.[43] On January 16, 2015, the prosecution requested another one-month delay to complete their review of all the video evidence obtained from computers seized by police in the hope to identify additional victims.[44]
