[PapaBear3625]

The defense is expected to tell the jury about the oldest interpretation of Jewish law that broadly outlines torture as a legitimate vehicle for convincing recalcitrant husbands to grant their wives religious divorces. Defense lawyer Robert Stahl said during his opening statements that "the process is a legitimate divorce. It's not a criminal conspiracy." He told the jury that ancient Jewish texts endorse the use of coercion and physical torture in an effort to convince men to grant their wives divorces.

CBS News:

Prosecutors say New Jersey Rabbi Mendel Epstein's team used handcuffs and electric cattle prods to torture men into granting a religious divorce, known as a "get."

Kidnapping, assault, torture. Put EVERYBODY involved in prison for at least 20 years. Everybody even slightly involved.

[King Moonracer]

Exactly. No law should supercede the COTUS.

[Calvin Locke]

... Jewish law ...

Yeah, well, I'm guessing that there was nothing under NJ law stopping a wife from filing.

Dittos on EVERYBODY involved.

[kiryandil]

'Raped on her wedding night, beaten while pregnant then starved and tortured by her own husband' but still DENIED a divorce: Orthodox Jewish woman fights for religious separation as partner laughs at her in court

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2923960/Orthodox-Jewish-wife-testified-husband-raping-starving-punching-battles-granted-religious-divorce.html

This is a different case, but it appears to represent some of what goes on in certain of the marriages. We're not used to this kind of cultural thinking.