A group of desperate Jewish wives in New York ran to their Rabbis to assist them with their marital woes. However, in the Jewish (Orthodox) religion, you need the husband’s approval in order to undergo a divorce. 68-year-old Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn was one of the many arrested in running an underground scheme that charged distressed Jewish women $70K-$100K to kidnap and brutally torture their husbands into agreeing for a Jewish divorce better known as a “get.”