Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Arrested For Kidnapping And Torture Plot To Force Husbands To Divorce Their Wives
Two rabbis are among the 10 people who allegedly plotted to kidnap and torture Orthodox Jewish men with cattle prods to pressure them into divorcing their wives. ● According to the New York Daily News, Rabbi Mendel Epstein, 68, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, 55, Ariel Potash, 40, a man identified only as “Yaakov” and six other men were arrested in New York and New Jersey Wednesday night after they allegedly ran an operation charging wives up to $100,000 to kidnap their husbands and force them to agree to a religious divorce. As CBS New York points out, under Jewish law, a wife will only be granted a divorce if she is presented with a document called a “get.” A woman without a “get” is forbidden to date or remarry within the Jewish faith.