From an October 10, 2013, complaint against ten Jewish men, including two rabbis, in New York and New Jersey, accused of running an organization that kidnaps and tortures husbands who refuse to grant their wives divorce. “UCE-2” is an undercover FBI agent.

According to Jewish law, in order to effect a divorce, a husband must provide his wife with a document known as a get. The wife has the right to sue for divorce in a rabbinical court, known as a beth din, which may order the husband to issue the get. A woman whose husband will not consent to…