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释义

  1. Background

  2. Epstein-Wolmark gang

      Known victims  

  3. Wax implicates Epstein

  4. FBI sting operation

  5. Arrests

  6. Criminal trials

  7. Appeals

  8. Reactions

  9. See also

  10. References

  11. External links

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The 2013 New York divorce torture plot was the planned kidnapping of a fictitious Jewish husband in Edison, New Jersey by a gang that had been abducting men and torturing them into granting their wives gittin (religious divorces). The kidnapping plot was set up in advance by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who conducted a sting operation against the gang in October 2013.

Although the gang had conducted the kidnapping and torture of at least 20 men since the mid-1980s, they did not receive serious attention from law enforcement until the apprehension of accomplice Rabbi David Wax in October 2010.[1] It continued through the arrest of a group of rabbis from New York in the sting operation, who were directed by Mendel Epstein and Martin Wolmark to perform the kidnapping. Most of the gang members were convicted of attempted kidnapping in late 2015 and sentenced to prison.[2]

Background

{{Main article|Jewish views on marriage#Divorce}}

A Jewish man is allowed to divorce his wife for virtually any reason by first receiving her permission, and then giving her a get. If she is unwilling, and his complaint against her is substantial, he can pursue a heter meah rabbanim and remarry, although one is rarely awarded.[3]

A Jewish woman seeking a divorce from her husband must present her complaint to a beth din (rabbinical court) with the implication of a serious physical blemish or character defect. The husband must be willing to divorce his wife, for if he gives the get unwillingly, the divorce is invalid, and any future offspring of the wife would be considered mamzerim (illegitimate). {{Quote box|width=25em |align=left |quote=You have to watch the man, what his habits are, where he goes, how and where you can grab him. If you have a plan, then you call the people who do the kidnapping... There is such a thing called a stun gun, and they put such a tape or something so that it shouldn't leave a mark on the surface. They administer electric shocks and it's not a dangerous thing that can damage or kill. |source= – Epstein co-conspirator Jay Goldstein describing the gang's abduction and torture methods during a recorded phone call on December 28, 1996.[4] }}

If the circumstances truly warrant a divorce and the husband is unwilling, the dayan (rabbinic judge) has the prerogative of instituting community shunning measures to "coerce him until he agrees," with physical force being reserved only for the rarest of cases.[4][5][6]

Epstein-Wolmark gang

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It was in this grey area of halakha (Jewish law) that in the mid-1980s a rabbi from Brooklyn, New York, Mendel Epstein, began to advocate for women seeking religious divorces from their husbands.[10] Dubbed The Prodfather by the press due to his boast of using a cattle prod against his victims, Epstein started a divorce-gang which coerced these men to give the gets through the use of violence.[11] Although U.S. laws prohibit kidnapping, assault, and torture, some rabbis have gone on record anonymously to sanction these otherwise "inhumane" acts against "angry husbands."[12] If a man got so scared from this treatment as to suffer a heart attack, Epstein would instruct his gang to "Take a right turn and let him die."[13]

In 1991, Father's Rights activist Monty Weinstein staged a protest with twenty-five people outside Epstein's home, with some carrying signs that read "Stop Mendel Epstein!"[4] Weinstein had heard stories about Epstein's tactics for years, but nothing ever happened when he complained to the authorities. He said, "What bothered me is that the police and courts didn't care."[14]

Known victims

  • Abraham Rubin: On October 23, 1996 in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Rubin was shoved into a van, beaten and stun-gunned in his genitals until he agreed to give his wife a get. After his 3-hour ordeal, he was left bruised, bloodied, handcuffed and blindfolded at the entrance to a cemetery. Charges were dropped against his attackers by Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes in 2000, after Rubin "could not identify any of his assailants."[15][5]{{dead link|date=August 2016}}[16]
  • Stephen Weiss: An accountant, Weiss came forward in 1998, alleging that his jaw, leg, and arm were broken in 1992 by members of a ring run by Epstein and Martin Wolmark, but no arrests were made. Newsday interviewed an additional dozen residents of Borough Park and Midwood, Brooklyn, all of whom claimed that they were harassed, threatened, or assaulted by men working for their estranged wives. Hynes agreed to look into the charges but, despite pressure from the victims, declined to prosecute.[17]
  • Israel Markowitz: On December 1, 2009, Markowitz was lured from Brooklyn to Lakewood Township, New Jersey under the pretense of receiving employment at a document shredding establishment.[1][18][19] Markowitz was then assaulted, placed in a van, tied up, beaten and shocked with a stun-gun until he agreed to give his wife a get.[25]
  • Yisrael Bryskman: On October 16, 2010, Bryskman, an Israeli citizen, was lured from New York to the Lakewood home of David Wax, an accomplice of Epstein, where he was promised employment as a typist of Talmudic texts.[18] Bryskman entered Wax's home shortly before midnight, was shown into a second-story bedroom, and was immediately punched in the face, breaking his nose. He was then forced to the floor, blindfolded, handcuffed, and ankle-tied.[25] A pool of blood appeared on the carpet, ruining it. Wax, who wore a cowboy hat during the attack, presented Bryskman with a body bag, "to get [you] used to the size."[20] He was then kicked in the ribs, burned with acid, and threatened to be urinated upon, fed to rats, and buried alive, until he agreed to give his wife a get.[17] Wax was paid $100,000 from the wife's family for the document, half of which went to Epstein, and he attempted to extort an additional $50,000[1] from Bryskman's father in Israel over the phone, threatening that if he didn't comply, he'd receive a "special gift - it's called a bullet...in your head."[15][17][20]
  • Usher Chaimowitz and Menachem Teitelbaum: On August 22, 2011, in Brooklyn, Chaimowitz and his roommate Teitelbaum were assaulted, tied up, and beaten for two hours until Chaimowitz agreed to give his wife a get. Teitelbaum was punched in the face, had four of his teeth knocked out, his head pushed through a wall, and his mouth stuffed with dirty socks when he tried to scream for help. When he asked why they were beating him, seeing that Chaimowitz was the one they were after, one of his attackers quoted the Talmudic dictum, "Woe to the evildoer, woe to his neighbor."[25][21][22]

Wax implicates Epstein

In October 2010, David Wax and his wife Judy were arrested for their part in the Bryskman kidnapping, and Wax subsequently agreed to testify as a government witness, claiming Epstein was the head of the operation and that his son, David Epstein was present in the bedroom during the Bryskman beating.[23] Their relationship dated back to the 1980s, when Epstein had forced a divorce for Wax's sister. The Bryskman case was what led federal authorities in New Jersey to begin their investigation of Mendel Epstein for his role in the crime.[24]

FBI sting operation

In the summer of 2013, a woman dialed Martin Wolmark, head of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland on West Carlton Road in Suffern, New York and Epstein cohort.[25] She told him a story about a husband who refused to give her a get.[15] Wolmark said:

{{quote | You need special rabbis who are going to take this thing and see it through to the end...getting a guy like Mendel Epstein who's a hired hand...You need to get him to New York where someone either could harass him or nail him, plain and simple.[26][27]}}

Wolmark told the caller that it would cost $30,000 to get the job done.[28] The woman, together with a man she identified as her brother, met with Wolmark on August 7, who proceeded to set up a conference call with Epstein.[25]

On August 14, 2013, she visited Epstein in Lakewood with another man she said was her brother. Epstein said to the two visitors:

{{quote | This is an expensive thing to do. 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.[15]}}

The man then asked about Epstein's effectiveness, to which he replied:

{{quote | Wait a minute here. I guarantee you that if you're in the van, you'd give a get to your wife. You probably love your wife, but you'd give a get when they finish with you. Hopefully, there won't even be a mark on him. We prefer not to leave a mark. Because then when you do, they do go to the police, the police look at the guy. . . and basically the reaction of the police is, if the guy does not have a mark on him, then, 'Is there some Jewish crazy affair here?' They don't get involved.[15]}}

Epstein explained he would need $10,000 to approve the coercion at the beth din (religious court), and $60,000 for the "tough guys", who would use karate,[10] rope, a screwdriver, and plastic bags over the men's heads to get them to cooperate.[18] And if all else fails, then:

{{quote | We take an electric cattle prod. If it can get a bull that weighs five tons to move, you put it in certain parts of the body and in one minute the guy will know.[15]}}

Epstein also told the woman that he would not be present at the attack, planning instead to be out and about, and suggested that she do the same, explaining that being seen in public would provide them with an alibi.[6][29] The man and woman, who turned out to be undercover FBI agents,[5]{{dead link|date=August 2016}}[21] handed Epstein a check for $10,000, with the word "Consultation" written in the memo.[8]

On September 29, Epstein drove from New York across state lines to a warehouse in Edison, New Jersey to stake out the location and verify that it would be appropriate to stage a kidnapping and beating there. Four days later, he drove to Suffern to meet with the female agent and Wolmark, who convened the beth din that, in exchange for the fee, would declare that the 'husband' is required to divorce his 'wife'.[14]The rabbis, who were unaware that the agent was recording the meeting, openly discussed the plan to kidnap and assault the husband in order to obtain the get.[25]

Arrests

On October 9, 2013, Wolmark and eight other men including Simcha Bulmash, Avrohom, Jay and Moshe Goldstein, David Hellman, Sholom Shuchat and Binyamin Stimler (all from Brooklyn), and Ariel Potash (from Monsey, New York) gathered at the warehouse in Edison to prepare for the kidnapping.[28] Some of them put on Halloween masks, ski masks, and bandanas – one wore a Metallica T-shirt on top of his clothes – as they flexed, shadow-boxed and waited for their prey, the 'recalcitrant husband' who did not exist.[30] Suddenly, federal agents burst in and arrested the would-be kidnappers. Epstein was arrested separately in Brooklyn,[31] and Wolmark's yeshiva in Suffern was raided.[25]

During a federal court hearing the following day in Trenton, New Jersey, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Gribko told a judge, "They didn't do it out of religious conviction. They did it for money."[9]

On May 6, 2014, Wax pleaded guilty in federal court in New Jersey to conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He named the men arrested the previous October as his accomplices.[24]

Criminal trials

The trial of the main defendants commenced on February 18, 2015 at the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Trenton.[23] On April 21, they appeared before District Judge Freda L. Wolfson, whereupon Mendel Epstein was convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, while accomplices Jay Goldstein and Binyamin Stimler were additionally convicted of attempted kidnapping. David Epstein was acquitted, in part by defence attorney Henry Mazurek's contention that David was in a business meeting in Cincinnati during Usher Chaimowitz's beating.[23][32] Sholom Shuchat, who had pleaded guilty in June to travelling in interstate commerce to commit violence, was sentenced on November 19 to time served and two years of supervised release, with the first six months being house arrest.[33]

On December 14, Martin Wolmark, who had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion, was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison,[26] 2 years of supervised release and a $50,000 fine.[28] The next day, at his own sentencing, Mendel Epstein told the judge:

{{quote | Over the years, I guess, I got caught up in my tough guy image. Truthfully, it helped me – the reputation – convince many of these reprobates to do the right thing."[34]}}

Epstein and Stimler were sentenced to 10 years and 3 years respectively. Wolfson said during the proceeding that "No one is permitted to commit acts of violence against another," and that the sentence was necessary in order to deter others in the Orthodox Jewish community from engaging in similar paid vigilantism.[34]

One day later, Goldstein was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Six other co-defendants also pleaded guilty before trial, and were sentenced to up to 4 years.[13][35][36][37]

On January 12, 2016, David Wax was sentenced by Wolfson to 7 years imprisonment.[38]

Appeals

Epstein launched a number of defence arguments to the court ranging from warrant issues to jury questions, but the heart of the appeal focused on the propriety of their actions under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, saying the FBI sting interfered with his practice of religion. He also argued that the victims, by entering into an Orthodox Jewish marriage, were essentially agreeing to the use of force outlined in Jewish law, but the higher court didn't accept the arguments.[8]

Reactions

Rabbinical judge David Eidensohn of Monsey, New York said, "I'm shocked that people who call themselves rabbis would get involved in coercion." According to Eidensohn, if a woman obtains a get in such a manner and remarries, "her marriage is not legal and she would be considered living in sin. If she has children, the children are considered born out of wedlock, and that's considered a disgrace in the community."[30] Eidensohn has opposed Hershel Schachter, a rabbi who approved the beatings of husbands; Shachter's group, the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, organized public protests against men who refused to give their wives a get.[14]

Judy Heicklin, president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, said

{{quote | It's not bad enough that these women are abused by their husbands. Then they turn to authority figures who are demanding bribes to solve what should be a fundamental human rights issue. It's heartbreaking, the women who are caught in this horrible situation. And it's a shame. It's a stain on our entire community... We think the halakha is so profound and divinely inspired that solutions can and should be found within halakha... I certainly understand the impetus for those kinds of solutions and why people are so frustrated with the lack of progress that people are reaching out for those solutions out of frustration."[14] }}Samuel Heilman, professor of sociology and Jewish studies at Queens College said, "Using force, that's the way it used to be done centuries ago. Most Jews don't operate like that anymore, but in this community... it's a sort of fundamentalist view."[39]Moshe David Tendler, rabbi and professor of medical ethics at Yeshiva University said, "The idea that a beth din can issue an order for coercion is baloney, a hoax." While conceding that he had "been with [Epstein] on matters," Tendler nevertheless considered him "unreliable."[30]Mordechai Willig, a leader of the Beth Din of America court of the centrist Rabbinical Council of America, emphasised that rabbis can never do anything illegal, because if one rabbi does something inappropriate, "everyone whose first name is Rabbi is sullied."[14]

Chaim Dovid Zweibel, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, stated that Wolmark's court didn’t hear what defense might be offered by the husband who was allegedly refusing to grant the get:

{{quote | There is a considerable body of opinion that you can only take steps consistent with the law of the land... Some would question the validity of a get that was procured in those circumstances.... On the surface of the allegations, this particular scenario was beyond the realm of anything the halakha might countenance. It seems as if the role of one of the rabbis was to determine whether the circumstances justified a beth din ruling that you could force the guy. It clearly was done in a way that leaves a lot to be desired. The whole case was a sham. The rabbi didn't go on more than a woman's crying and signing a check. It's very troubling...The idea that some have put forward that women should have the same ability to initiate the divorce process, just as a man can divorce a woman against her will – it's clearly contrary to halakha."[14] }}

See also

{{Portal|Judaism|New York City|New Jersey|Crime}}
  • Kiryas Joel murder conspiracy
  • Agunah

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1. ^Loder, Stephanie (May 15, 2014) "Stun Guns Forced Orthodox Divorce, Prosecutors Say", Asbury Park Press
2. ^Mullen, Shannon (April 21, 2015) "Rabbi Guilty of Kidnapping Conspiracy, Jury Finds", Asbury Park Press
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35. ^{{cite web|author1=U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey|title=Two Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Kidnap Jewish Husbands, Force Them To Consent To Religious Divorces|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sentenced-prison-conspiring-kidnap-jewish-husbands-force-them|date=December 15, 2015}}
36. ^(Apr 21, 2015) [https://www.fbi.gov/newark/press-releases/2015/three-orthodox-jewish-rabbis-convicted-of-conpsiracy-to-kidnap-jewish-husbands-in-order-to-force-them-to-consent-to-religious-divorces/ "Three Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Convicted of Conspiracy to Kidnap Jewish Husbands in Order to Force Them to Consent to Religious Divorces"], U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
37. ^{{cite web|author1=U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey|title=Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Conspiring To Kidnap Jewish Husbands, Force Them To Consent To Religious Divorces|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/orthodox-jewish-rabbi-sentenced-eight-years-prison-conspiring-kidnap-jewish-husbands|date=December 16, 2015}}
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External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxnM4wXcrj Rabbis Arrested for Plot to Kidnap and Cattle prod Man to Give Wife Divorce], TomoNews animation, YouTube
  • Daas Torah - Issues In Jewish Identity
  • Mamzer Alert
  • Rabbinic Corruption
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