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A New Jersey rabbi and his wife have been released on $500,000 bond each after being arrested by the FBI for allegedly luring an Israeli man to their home where they tied him up and threatened to kill him if he didn't agree to a divorce.

David and Judy Wax, 49 and 47, allegedly also beat the man, showed him a body bag and insisted that he would be buried alive in the Pennsylvania mountains if he didn't do as he was told.

The pair surrendered to FBI agents in Red Bank, New Jersey on Monday and are facing kidnapping charges, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Trenton.

The whole affair apparently stems from a divorce dispute in Israel's Rabbinical Court over the victim's refusal to give his wife a "get," an Orthodox Jewish divorce document permitting a wife to remarry, according to court papers.

Authorities have not disclosed the nature of the relationship between the victim's wife, who lives in Israel, and his assailants, Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office told The Huffington Post.

The alleged victim, Yisrael Briskman, apparently fled Israel after refusing to gra... >>>