A rabbi and another Orthodox Jewish man were arrested in New York City in connection with a plot to kidnap and murder a man whose wife wanted ti divorce him, the Reuters website reports today (September 8, 2016).
Israel-based Orthodox rabbi Aharon Goldberg, 55, and Shimen Liebowits, 25, were taken into custody in Central Valley, New York, while meeting to discuss the murder plot on September 6.
They were charged with one count each of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder for hire.
Prosecutors said Goldberg and Liebowitz recruited an individual to carry out the crimes because the man refused to issue his wife a "get" -- a document to allow his wife to divorce him. An Orthodox Jewish woman cannot get a religious divorce or remarry unless her husband consents to a get, or if he dies.
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