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Last October, an FBI sting rounded up 10 people, including several Orthodox rabbis and scribes living in Brooklyn. They were members, authorities charged, of a “kidnap team,” hired to abduct a man and use not-so-gentle forms of persuasion, including cattle prods, to get him to agree to something.
That something was a Jewish divorce, known as a “get.” According to the FBI, the team had accepted tens of thousands of dollars from an agent posing as an Orthodox woman who desperately wanted a divorce.
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In situations like these, the unhappy wife is called an “agunah” (an anchored woman), chained to a dead marriage, perhaps to an abusive or absent husband, unable to go on with her life.
If this sounds like a plot twist from “The Sopranos,” it pretty much is.
A similar scenario took place in episode three of the TV series. In that instance, however, Tony managed to prevail, and the fictional wife received her get.
The FBI arrests sparked wid