Background 2013 New York divorce torture plot

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a jewish man allowed divorce wife virtually reason first receiving permission, , giving get. if unwilling, , complaint against substantial, can pursue heter meah rabbanim , remarry, although 1 awarded.


a jewish woman seeking divorce husband must present complaint beth din implication of serious physical blemish or character defect. husband must willing divorce wife, if gives unwillingly, divorce invalid, , future offspring of wife considered mamzers. if circumstances warrant divorce , husband unwilling, dayan has prerogative of instituting community shunning measures coerce him until agrees, physical force being reserved rarest of cases.


it in grey area of halakha in mid-1980s rabbi brooklyn, new york, mendel epstein, began advocate women seeking religious divorces husbands. dubbed prodfather press due boast of using cattle prod against victims, epstein started divorce-gang coerced these men give gets through use of violence. although u.s. laws prohibit kidnapping, assault, , torture, rabbis have gone on record anonymously sanction these otherwise inhumane acts against angry husbands. if man got scared treatment suffer heart attack, epstein instruct gang take right turn , let him die.


in 1991, men s rights activist monty weinstein staged protest 25 people outside epstein s home, carrying signs read stop mendel epstein!








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