Jerusalem – Amid calls for a police investigation by students, a rabbi has been relieved of duty as director of an Orthodox gap-year program at Bar-Ilan University after secretly installing video surveillance cameras in the girls’ dormitory.
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HAARETZ (http://bit.ly/16uYtqo) reports that Rabbi Tully Bryks, claims he had the two cameras installed in the hallway of the dormitory after receiving complaints about maintenance workers in the building.
Bryks was the director of The Israel Experience, which serves about 90 high school students and graduates from the U. S.
The hallway cameras were discovered students in adjacent rooms, who promptly reported them and demanded an investigation.
Bryks has issued a letter to students, their parents, and the staff apologizing for what he calls, “poor judgement.”
Program board members are expected to meet soon, where it is expected they will offer Bryks the option of “resigning.”
Is the video online?
מטעמי צניעות No Male should have access to girls at any Girls school we need female staff. and at the Boys Yeshivas we need Male staff. No Human Being on earth can say he has no יצר הרע.
They were in the HALLWAYS, what is the issue here?
Ain apetropes l’aroyas, PERIOD !
If he put the Cameras in the rooms then we can call him a pervert, but they were put in hallways. There must be more details which were not reported
Even if it was “just” the hallways, you’ll have girls in their nightwear & robes going to the showers or their friends’ rooms. Disgusting. Smacks of voyeurism. I can’t believe he did this “le shem shamayim”, surely he isn’t that stupid. So creepy.
Many of you do not understand a girl’s dorm. It is hallways of private dorm area. There are typically diros “apartment” rooms where the girls sleep and they walk into halls to get to bathrooms and to get to each other’s rooms. They can very well not be in a complete state of dress when they walk these halls. That being said, no one who sets up security cameras for actual security sake does so secretly. They are not put in clocks. Even if one wanted to catch workers (doing what in the hallways, I am not sure) the idea that the workers would KNOW the cameras were there is already enough to thwart problems. the cameras don’t need to be hidden for such things. There is definitely something wrong here.
The real lesson here is: EVERYBODY is being videod (up there) and eventually will be revealed and exposed. Definitely poor judgement.
We will be suing. Only the Ruv had access to view the film. My niece and all her friends are horrified.
My concern: Lately there have been so many Rebbeim accused of impropriety. If the Rebbeim are allegedly engaging in these behaviors, what are the common folk up to?? Oy!!!!
I’m with #2 : get all men out of girls schools.
What a חילל השם if we see our Rabbis do such disgusting נבלה What should We think?? No male should have any Access Near girls in Jewish Schools.
It was a hidden camera. A hidden camera has very few legitimate uses.
This is called portraying someone in a slanderous way in order to sell a story with a slanted headline. By just reading the facts cited in the article (notwithstanding the fact that the article is a slanted article to even the most oblivious reader) any reasonable person can conclude that this is not a case of some immoral spying rabbi as the headline attempts to portray him. This is a case where cameras were placed in the hallway of a dormitory as a security measure for the safety of students. When one weighs invasion of privacy against the security interests of students, the placement of cameras as long as they were placed in a public area (i.e the hallways of a building) for the purposes of security is both a lawful and justified. Attempting to ruin someone’s good name in order to sell a story is never justified.
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If he was concerned about safety, he should have put cameras in the boys dorm too, after all, they also have ipods, computers etc. that could be stolen. Who paid for the cameras? not the school. So Rabbi B felt so strongly about security, he paid for it himself? if it looks and walks like a duck, it is a duck.