Church to offer free coats and food
The First Baptist Church will offer coats and ingredients for Christmas dinners from 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 13 at the church, 332 E. 11th St.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to meet
The theme of December services at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive, will be “Jubilate.”
Jubilation, or joy, is not a feeling everyone experiences during this holiday season.
“The Dark Days of the Season” will be presented by the Rev. Katie Kandarian-Morris at 10 a.m. Saturday. Participants will consider ways to make this time of year bearable, maybe even peaceful.
For more information, visit www.durangouu.org.
Tour of Bethlehem to be held in Farmington
A “Walk Through Bethlehem” will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 18, 19, 20 and 21 at Cross Roads Community Church, 2400 N. Butler Ave. in Farmington.
The event will feature a guided tour through Bethlehem to the manger.
For more information, call (505) 325-2600 or email CrossRoads@crcnaz.com.
Rabbi sued over alleged voyeurism
WASHINGTON – A Georgetown University law student is suing after she says she was sexually exploited by a rabbi who is accused of secretly videotaping women in a Jewish ritual bath.
The Washington Post reports that the civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court and seeks class-action status.
The rabbi, Barry Freundel, was arrested in October and is charged with voyeurism for allegedly placing a hidden camera in the shower area of a ritual bath, called a mikvah. The lawsuit says the student took a Jewish law class that Freundel co-taught at Georgetown and visited the mikvah at Freundel’s urging.
The lawsuit says Georgetown, the synagogue where Freundel was a rabbi and the mikvah ignored “red flags” that he was acting improperly.
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