Adina Sash Mobilizes 100,000 Followers Against Raphi Stein Over Alleged Get Refusal
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 1
Adina Sash Mobilizes 100,000 Followers Against Raphi Stein Over Alleged Get Refusal
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 1
Summary
Adina Sash, 38, launched an online campaign against Raphi Stein after viewers told her a podcast guest using the name Nathan Gettisberg was allegedly withholding a Jewish divorce from his wife.
Instead of contacting Stein or his wife first, Sash publicly condemned podcast network Living L’Chaim and used her Flatbush Girl platform to solicit information about the case.
A friend of Stein’s wife, Adeena Kohn, later told Sash that Kohn wanted privacy, but Sash pressed on and chose to crowdsource money for the fight rather than rely on the wife’s direct participation.
Sash, an Orthodox Jewish advocate for agunot, has run similar name-and-shame efforts for years, sometimes for pay, reflecting how social media has become a tool in battles over religious divorce.