This week in power: Jerusalem bus ad and Rabbi arrested

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

WoW ad
“Women of the Wall launched an ad campaign on public buses in Jerusalem to promote bat mitzvah ceremonies at the Western Wall,” “>a WoW leader told The Jewish Week.

“As to Jerusalem, it’s time to get real. We have bigger challenges in Israel. We need to pull together and focus on them. We need to concentrate on what unites us, not what divides us. If Women of the Wall want to make a Bat Mitzvah and read the Torah at the Kotel, they have an entire section to do so. Undisturbed. Undisturbing,” “>reported The Jewish Daily Forward. Few details have emerged as of yet, but the police report said that “Freundel was seen installing a camera hidden in a clock radio above a shower at the mikvah. Freundel allegedly told the person who caught him that he was fixing the shower ventilation,” The Forward continued.

In a statement issued just hours after news of the arrest surfaced, Kesher Israel’s board of directors said, “This is a painful moment for Kesher Israel Congregation and the entire Jewish community,” the statement said. “Upon receiving information regarding potentially inappropriate activity, the Board of Directors quickly alerted the appropriate officials. Throughout the investigation, we cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so.”