On Tisha B’av, a vicious attempted abduction of Aharon Friedman took place in on the property of Mrs. Cheryl Epstein, where Tamar Epstein and Aharon and Tamar's child currently reside. The attempted abduction took place as Aharon was leaving the property having returned his child to Mrs. Cheryl Epstein’s residence, pursuant to a court order. This vicious assault appears to be a continuation of the Epsteins’ ongoing efforts to prevent the child from having a relationship with her loving and dedicated father, which began over four years ago when Tamar Epstein abducted the child from Silver Spring to her mother’s home in Pennsylvania
The Epsteins’ campaign, coordinated with ORA, has included many threats against Aharon and ongoing harassment of him, his family, and his employer. In fact, various family members who have helped transport the child to ensure that Aharon can see her at all per a court order have been harassed at the very location where the assault took place, the property of Mrs. Cheryl Epstein. The child spent this past weekend of Shabbos Chazon with Aharon. By the order of the court,
acting at Tamar’s request, father and child were restricted to the Philadelphia area. They spent Shabbos in a motel room, and Sunday, Tisha B’av, was spent 'walking the streets' as the Epsteins have, for over four years, made Aharon a pariah in the Philadelphia area and threatened anyone who would even think of providing a place to stay for Aharon and his child. The need for revenge has blinded Tamar and her family to the suffering she is inflicting on her child
Per the court order, Aharon brought the child to Mrs. Cheryl Epstein‘s home at 6 PM on Tisha B’av. Contrary to her usual lack of reception, when Aharon arrived, Mrs. Cheryl Epstein inquired about the child, speaking to Aharon for the first time in years. In fact, in an unprecedented instruction, she told the child to go back outside and give her father a kiss, calling into question her motivation, given what was to happen moments later on her own driveway. With the child nearby, two or three masked thugs hit Aharon over the head and knocked him to the ground. Did the Epstein family plan this attack on Aharon when he would be in a weakened state from fasting and be handicapped by wearing Tisha B‘av shoes? The thugs smashed his glasses and beat him. Miraculously,with Hashem’s chesed, Aharon escaped. The police were summoned and verified the incident with an eyewitness.
Mrs. Epstein resides in an upscale neighborhood with a low crime rate. Because Aharon’s car was intact and the car keys were on the ground, the motive cannot be construed as an attempted robbery. Aharon was sent to a local hospital for tests and treatment.
There have been numerous tragic incidents of Jewish fathers being abducted and beaten, but this time the thugs did not succeed in abducting Aharon. Are we to surmise that there is more to come?
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Additional guest post comments:
The violent attack against Aharon Friedman was at least partially the result of the incitement to violence against Aharon by various rabbis and organizations. In this letter (see link below) that was publicized by ORA, Rabbi Hershel Schachter calls for Aharon to be physically beaten. It is not yet known whether Rabbi Schachter was involved in hiring the thugs that attacked and attempted to kidnap Aharon on Tisha B'av.
One of the sources Rabbi Schachter cites in the letter against Aharon (Rabbi Akiva Eiger) is referenced in an audio lecture by Rabbi Schachter that is on Yeshiva University’s website: http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/739308/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Options_for_Helping_Agunot# as grounds for beating someone over a get. (It is ironic that Rabbi Eiger writes about a husband who is leaving the city of the marital residence and that immediate action was necessary, whereas in this matter it was Epstein who left the city of marital residence with the child and abused the beis din process so that her abduction of the child would be treated as a fait accompli in court.)
In the letter, Rabbi Schachter says that Aharon's situation is the same as "a slave whose master provides for him a Canaanite maidservant, that until now it is has been permissible, and now it is forbidden." In the audio, he explains that in such a situation the slave, or, as he writes in the letter, Aharon, should be beaten. Furthermore, Rabbi Schachter specifically writes in the letter that any person can take the law into his own hands [to beat Aharon].
Is it true that ORA has the backing of BMG?!
It cannot be denied that they supported each other and stood hand in hand in a rally in Staten Island!
WOW so much hatred , quote "Rabbi Schachter specifically writes in the letter that any person can take the law into his own hands [to beat Aharon"
no you cannot , hope justice is served and the thugs including this rabbi see jail time for inciting violence
i just hope that bi-- doesn't see a get till she's left with 2 white hair on her skull
i think she should immediate lose custody
well this is what happens when wax is left off the hook
in all these cases the gang rabbis bribe the locals so no investigation takes place
mayby she wants her child to grow up like this.. http://wandering-jew.com/userimages/child.jpg
sick woman
ora paid for the buses to transport the kotler schustel and krupenia family to staten island ny where they held a peacful protest together with ora infront of the home of avrohom weiss
Shame is brought upon her by the actions of the rabbi, and the actions that she has participated in. Her son will not forget, and will not forgive the crimes of the mother.
I was there and I know the police personally and this is 100% lies. I saw Aaron afterwards (I drove by) and he was walking around with nothing on his head or anything. I also know that Tamar and her mother were not at the hiome at the time.
It is amazing to see how low anybody on Aaron's side can go.
Everybody is missing out very important fact , Aaron refuses to give her a get .How can any defender of his explain that?
you know that tamar and her mother were not at home - then to whom did aharon leave the child with -
Someone is lying to you. Are you denying that he dropped off his child at the house, or that the mother and grandmother weren't home to receive the child? Of course they were home. If you want check the court papers, it says clearly that they changed the cisitation details because of this incident!
What is going on with David and Judy wax, r they off the hook
Would someone explain to me why Aharon Friedman would not give his ex a get.
The Epstein's are an amazing and devoted in family with exceptional Middos and loving warm hearts. I simply cant fathom that anything like this is true. I don't begin to understand why the people's privtae affairs have to be aired out online. B'shluma you want to root out corruption from BMG or other Lakewood establishments that steal our money or make our lives miserable but why do you care a hoot about aron friedman and tamar epstein from philadelphia, please leave these people alone.
The Epsteins are the ones who decided to make this a public matter years ago,
b4 i answer u that question mayB answer these questions
if you got married according to the Jewish code of law, then why don't u follow it?
if a get has to be proceeded by rabbinical court, Then why are u avoiding it for all these years?
if u really want a get why did u approach the ORA thugs? is that the civil way?
why did she kidnap the child from her father?
at last and not least this is what u fought the battle of custody and have your child just for the sake of using her as partner in crime?
And to answer u in my personal opinion without knowing Aron Friedman, I just hope that b1ch doesn't see her get until Aron is marrying off his grand children from his newly happy marriage
Most likely the Rabbi and epstein are having an affair,why else would he do this.