A New Jersey rabbi and his wife used hired goons, kidnapping and brutal beatings to force an Orthodox Jewish cad to grant his wife in Israel a long-sought religious divorce, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
Judy and David Wax of Lakewood, NJ, could face life in prison if convicted of coordinating the Oct. 17, 2010, kidnapping and assault of Yisrael Briskman, who prosecutors said was targeted after he failed to honor wife Chaya Dina Briskman's request for a "get" -- a divorce document recognized under Jewish law. Instead of granting the "get," Briskman fled Israel for Brooklyn.
'GET' HIM! David and Judy Wax (above) leave court in Trenton
yesterday after being charged with kidnapping runaway husband Yisrael
Briskman. [GJ - He could be a Missouri Synod president in the future. I call him The American Moses.]
'GET' HIM! David and Judy Wax leave court in Trenton yesterday
after being charged with kidnapping runaway husband Yisrael Briskman
(above).
David Wax, 49, lured Briskman to his suburban home to discuss work on a set of Talmudic books published by Wax's Taryag Legacy Foundation, according to a federal criminal complaint.
But Wax ushered Briskman to a bedroom, where two goons punched him in the face, handcuffed and blindfolded him, prosecutors said.
During the 30-minute beatdown, Briskman was shown a body bag and asked repeatedly by his attackers to consent to Chaya's divorce, according to the complaint. Briskman eventually agreed to grant the "get," but Wax wasn't finished.
