Crime & Safety
Rabbi Gets Jail Time for Trying to 'Violently' Force a Divorce
The rabbi planned to take the victim to an Edison warehouse, where he would intimidate him into leaving his wife, feds allege.
Edison, NJ - An Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was sentenced to 3 years in prison Monday planned to kidnap a man and take him to a warehouse in Edison, where he planned to intimidate the man into divorcing his wife, according to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
In the warehouse, the rabbi and other men planned to intimidate the man into giving his wife a divorce, or a “get” under Jewish law, by either using violence or threat of violence, the feds say. The rabbi was from Lakewood, NJ and Brick Patch has the full story.
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