Get the Get - The New York Divorce Coercion Gang
Get the Get - The New York Divorce Coercion Gang  
Podcast: F**k That
Published On: Mon Mar 13 2023
Description: When we get divorced, it is overwhelming as hell. Imagine if you had to go through all of that AND get divorced in religious court as well. Imagine if your civil divorce didn’t really matter if your religious divorce wasn’t valid. That is a reality for a lot of women in the Orthodox Jewish Community when their husbands refuse to grant them a get, the religious document needed for divorce according to Jewish Religious Law. Enter Rabbi Mendel Epstein, aka “The Prodfather.” Leader of the New York Divorce Coercion Gang – a group of rabbis and other Jewish men that kidnapped, assaulted and tortured men that refused to give their wives a get using cattle prods, acid, and other scary objects that nobody, including angry Rabbis, should be wielding. If you liked what you heard today, give the podcast a like, review, and subscribe. Follow F**k That on TikTok @fthatpodInstagram @fthat_pod Netflix documentary mentioned in the episode: One of UsThank you to this week's sources: Aranoff,S., Haut, R. (2015). The wed-locked agunot: Orthodox jewish women chained to dead marriages. McFarland. Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey Two Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Kidnap Jewish Husbands, Force Them To Consent To Religious Divorceswww.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sentenced-prison-conspiring-kidnap-jewish-husbands-force-them Jewish Divorce Basics: What Is a ‘Get’? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/557906/jewish/Divorce-Basics.htm Kariyeva, M. (2018). Chained against her will: What a get means for women under jewish law. Touro Law Review. 34(3). Outline of the Beth Din Divorce Proceedings Radzyner, A. (2018). Jewish law, state, and social reality: prenuptial agreement for the prevention of divorce refusal in israel and the united states. Journal of Law and Religion, 33(1), 61-88. Raise Your Hand if You’re a Kohen https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/762109/jewish/Raise-Your-Hand-If-Youre-A-Kohen.htm Shaer, M. (2014). The orthodox hit squad. GQ. United States District Court District of New JerseyCriminal ComplaintUnited States of America v.Mendel Epstein,Martin Wolmark,Ariel Potash andFNU LNU aka “Yaakov” United States District Court District of New JerseyUnited States of America v.Mendel Epstein,Jay Goldstein,David Aryeh Epstein andBinyamin StimlerDecided Dec 11, 2015 What Is a Beit Din?https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3582308/jewish/What-Is-a-Beit-Din.htm Who Are the Israelites?Who Were the Levites? Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/f-k-that/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy