And I found the reference to this story:
Maimonides issued a ruling in the case of a man who was ordered by a Beth Din to divorce his wife and refused that "we coerce him until he states 'I want to.'"[77] This is only true in cases where specific grounds for the verdict exist.[78] In the 1990s, some activist rabbis had interpreted this statement to mean that torture could be applied against husbands in troubled marriages in order to force them into granting religious divorces to their wives.[79] These rabbis were later implicated in the 2013 New York divorce torture plot.[80]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture#In_Judaism
- 77
- Maimoides; Mishneh Torah Hilkhot Gerushin 2:20
- 78
- Malinowitz, Chaim;"The New York State Get Bill and its Halachic Ramifications"; Jewish Law Articles
http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/getart3.html
- 79
- Samaha, Albert (4 December 2013) "Bad Rabbi: Tales of Extortion and Torture Depict a Divorce Broker's Brutal Grip on the Orthodox Community", Village Voice
https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/12/04/bad-rabbi-tales-of-extortion-and-torture-depict-a-divorce-brokers-brutal-grip-on-the-orthodox-community/
- 80
- Blau, Reuven (22 April 2015) "N.J. Jury Finds Orthodox Rabbi Guilty of Kidnap-Divorce Plot", New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/orthodox-rabbi-guilty-kidnapping-beating-jewish-husbands-article-1.2193597/
This is the kind of thing that makes me glad to not be in the relevant sense a Jew (in Sweden Marranos often refer to themselves or ourselves as "Jews" when asked of origin and "Christians" when asked of religion).
This is also the kind of thing that makes me worried if someone were trying to treat me as - in the relevant sense - a Jew.
This is probably the kind of thing that motivates some Jews to hide what I am writing as it is Catholic and not - in the relevant sense - Jewish.
As is apparent from FB blocking my links.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Bibl. Audoux
Sts. Peter and Paul
29.VI.2019
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