Binyamin Gottlieb
The Kiryas Joel murder conspiracy was the planned kidnapping and murder of Joseph Masri, a Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic resident of the village of Kiryas Joel, New York in a troubled marriage who had refused to give his wife a get (divorce document). The plot was hatched during the summer of 2016 by Shimen Liebowitz, a divorce Mediation, mediator from Kiryas Joel, Aharon Goldberg, an Israeli rabbi from Bnei Brak, and Binyamin Gottlieb. A fourth conspirator, operating under the pseudonym Joe Levin, turned out to be an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose agents arrested the suspects in a sting operation before the crime could be committed. The trio were convicted and sentenced in 2017 to prison. Background Under Jewish views on marriage, Jewish marital law, a married woman who wishes to remarry cannot do so until her husband first provides her with a divorce document known as a ''Get (divorce document), get'', or otherwise upon his death. A woman who lacks the abi ...
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Kiryas Joel, New York
Kiryas Joel ( yi, קרית יואל, Kiryas Yoyel, ; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jews who belong to the worldwide Satmar sect of Hasidism. Kiryas Joel is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown New York Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the larger Combined Statistical Area. According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Kiryas Joel has by far the youngest median age population of any municipality in the United States,Here's The Youngest Town In Every State
Accessed September 11, 2014. and the youngest, at 13.2 years old, of any population center of ove ...
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