{"id":18317,"date":"2015-12-16T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2015-12-16T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:57:10","slug":"18317-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=18317","title":{"rendered":"Rabbis Sentenced for Conspiring to Kidnap Jewish Husbands to Force Religious Divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRENTON, NJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18319\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jewish-Rabbi--e1450330485286-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish Rabbi\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jewish-Rabbi--e1450330485286-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Jewish-Rabbi--e1450330485286.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Mendel Epstein,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A federal judge sentenced two Orthodox Jewish Rabbis to prison for conspiring to kidnap Jewish men in an effort to force them to give their wives religious divorces, referred to as \u201cgets,\u201d officials announced this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Rabbis Mendel Epstein<\/strong>, 70, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and <strong>Binyamin Stimler<\/strong>, 40, of Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced to ten years and three years and three months in prison, respectively. They were both convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stimler was additionally convicted on attempted kidnapping.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;siteSection=phillydotcom_nws_us_sty_vmpp&amp;videoId=28932475\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u00a0According to documents filed in this case and the evidence at trial:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Dec. 1, 2009, in Lakewood, an Orthodox Jewish man, <strong>Israel Markowitz,<\/strong> was assaulted, placed in a van, tied up, beaten and shocked with a stun-gun until he agreed to give his wife a get.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Oct. 16, 2010, in Lakewood, another Orthodox Jewish man, <strong>Ysrael Bryskman<\/strong>, was assaulted, tied up and beaten until he agreed to give his wife a get.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Aug. 22, 2011, in Brooklyn, another Orthodox Jewish man, <strong>Usher Chaimowitz<\/strong>, and his roommate, <strong>Menachem Teitlebaum,<\/strong> were assaulted, tied up and beaten until Chaimowitz agreed to give his wife a get.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Based upon these incidents, the FBI began an undercover operation in August 2013 in which two FBI agents posed as a wife who was seeking a get from her recalcitrant husband, and her brother, who was trying to help her obtain the get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Over the next several weeks, the undercover agents had multiple recorded phone calls and in-person meetings with defendant Epstein. In those meetings, Epstein arranged to have his team kidnap the husband at a warehouse in exchange for $60,000, according to officials<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On October 9, 2013, Stimler and others\u2014including <strong>Jay Goldstein,<\/strong> 61, <strong>Moshe Goldstein,<\/strong> 32, <strong>Avrohom Goldstein<\/strong>, 36, <strong>Simcha Bulmash<\/strong>, 32, <strong>David Hellman<\/strong>, 33, and <strong>Sholom Shuchat<\/strong>, 31, all of Brooklyn, and <strong>Ariel Potash,<\/strong> 42, of Monsey, New York\u2014traveled from New York to a warehouse in Middlesex County, New Jersey, to execute the planned kidnapping of the husband to force him to give the get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Law Enforcement Makes Arrests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They arrived at the warehouse in two dark minivans shortly after 8:00 p.m., according to officials<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some of the kidnap team members put on masks and entered the warehouse office with the undercover agent posing as the brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The remaining kidnappers walked around the outside with flashlights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Over the next 15 minutes, members of the kidnap team went in and out of the warehouse office wearing disguises, including ski masks, Halloween masks and bandanas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They discussed their plan for kidnapping and assaulting the husband, how they planned to grab him, pull him down, tie him up, and take his phone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Members of the kidnap team brought with them to the warehouse a 30-foot nylon rope, a blindfold, vodka, license plates they had switched out, and items usedRabbis Mendel Epstein, ceremonially record the get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">At 8:23 p.m., law enforcement moved into the warehouse office and arrested the eight men, including Stimler. Epstein was arrested at his Brooklyn home the same night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Avrohom Goldstein, Potash, Shuchat, Moshe Goldstein, Hellman, and Bulmash have all plead guilty to one count of traveling in interstate commerce to commit extortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Avrohom Goldstein and Potash were sentenced Nov. 19 to three years and nine months and 14 months in prison, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Shuchat was sentenced to time served on Nov. 19. Moshe Goldstein was sentenced Nov. 16 to four years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hellman and Bulmash were sentenced Nov. 17 to three years and eight months and four years in prison, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Martin Wolmark, 57, of Monsey, previously plead guilty to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion and was sentenced Monday to three years and two months in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jay Goldstein, who was convicted at trial of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping, is scheduled for sentencing this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge sentenced two Orthodox Jewish Rabbis to prison for conspiring to kidnap Jewish men in an effort to force them to give their wives religious divorces, referred to as \u201cgets,\u201d officials announced this 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