Posted on 04/08/2015 7:04:15 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
“Basically, what we are going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating him up and torturing him and then getting him to give the get,” Rabbi Mendel Epstein told two potential clients. It was August 14, 2013, and he was sitting in his home in Lakewood, New Jersey, with a young Orthodox Jewish woman and her brother. She had sought out Epstein because she desperately wanted to divorce her husband, who was refusing to give her a get, the document that formally dissolves a marriage under Jewish law.
In Orthodox Judaism, only husbands can give gets, and while most do, those who refuse wield enormous power over their wives. Even with a civil divorce decree in hand, a woman is not divorced in the Orthodox Jewish world until her husband gives her a get. Until then, she is an agunah, a “chained” woman. If she falls in love and decides to remarry without the get, she would be considered an adulteress, and her children from that union would be shunned.
Epstein, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, and Lakewood, had a reputation for facilitating divorces. On that August day a couple of years ago, he explained to the woman and her brother how he would persuade her husband to give her a get. He mentioned a team of “tough guys” who could torture her husband with electric cattle prods, handcuffs and karate and suffocate him using plastic bags. “I guarantee you that if you’re in the van, you’d give a get to your wife,” he said.
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What about Islamic marriages? Oh.....riiiiight.
Slimy muzzies to the left and right and THIS is worth an article?
Does anyone need further proof that liberals are the enemy?
And shoukd be treated as such?
And WHY is there even a single liberal Jew?
i can remember a time when the msm wouldn’t go anywhere near a story about rabbi’s gone bad.
There is no such person who is a Liberal anything. People who are Liberals only believe in their warped ideology. Any other group to which they claim to be a member is simply a cover.
“Who, then, are the real villains in this story? Epstein and his so-called “kidnap team” or the vengeful husbands who were allegedly taken and beaten up for refusing to give their wives gets?”
Jewish men shouldn’t give gets for frivorces. Not cheaply anyway.
“Basically, what we are going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating him up and torturing him and then getting him to give the get,” Rabbi Mendel Epstein told two potential clients. <<
Sounds like a criminal enterprise...and a pretty serious one at that. I doubt the RFPA would cover this.
DK
Orthodox Judaism has a rather large number of parallels to Islam.
This is one of them.
This parallelism exists because Islam copied Judaism in many areas. And because both religions grew out of Middle Eastern societies that had quite a few things in common.
Henry Beecher, “magnificent pagan” (as described by Thoreau), preacher of romantic adultery and member of the Anthony Gang...
Beecher-Tilton Scandal
http://www.fingerpostproductions.com/nook_farm/pages/beecher-tilton-page1.html
“The Greatest Social Drama of Modern Times:” The Beecher-Tilton Scandal
http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/BeecherTilton.htm
He just admitted to felonies here.
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