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30th May 2022

Couple accidentally broadcast themselves having sex for 45-minutes to bat mitzvah in Zoom blunder

Steve Hopkins

Someone on Zoom called the woman and asked, ‘WTF are you doing?’

A couple who decided to zoom into a bat mitzvah ended up stealing the show after they forgot to turn their camera off and began getting intimate.

The pair, who have not been identified, joined a service at a Minneapolis synagogue, and according to the New York Post were canoodling in full view of congregants for nearly an hour.

The impromptu version of what the publication dubbed, “Debbie does Deuteronomy”, unfolded May 14 in the Twin Cities’ Temple Beth El.

One viewer, who asked not to be named, told the publication the video “went on for about 45 minutes”.

“She was walking around naked, she got dressed, she’s in and out of the Zoom, he was in the bed, he whipped it out, she started going to work. … Someone on the Zoom saw and called her and was like, ‘WTF are you doing? You’re on camera.’”

The viewer went on to show that most people calling in to the event were not on camera, expect for a few older callers who didn’t know how to turn off their camera, “so the boxes were pretty big and everyone could see who was on camera”.

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Getting caught out on Zoom was an emerging problem during the covid pandemic and became known online as  “pulling a Toobin.”

In October 202o CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin began pleasuring himself on a live Zoom call with staff from the New Yorker.

The magazine fired him, but CNN allowed him to return to the air after a brief suspension.

A councillor in Spain offered to resign after accidentally leaving his camera on and taking a shower during a work call that was broadcast on local television. Bernardo Bustillo, a part-time city councillor in Torrelavega, northern Spanish, forgot to switch off his camera during the online meeting, leaving his work colleagues mortified.

Sex on shabbat is specifically encouraged in the Talmud and some consider it to be a mitzvah — or good deed, the Post reported.

While synagogue tried to prevent news of the story spreading, screenshots of the couple have been widely circulated on social media.

“I’m aware of the incident and won’t be commenting on the details” said Matt Walzer, managing director Temple Beth El, told the Post.

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