Note: This is a theory, not an allegation. It’s a hypothesis about power, strategy, and the legal logic of outsourced pressure.
Three Questions That Don’t Fit the Public Story
The official “Free Adeena” narrative leaves three contradictions hanging:
- How did the campaign start so precisely right after the March 21, 2026 Living L’Chaim podcast—the moment Raphi said he was divorced?
- Why didn’t the Kohn family protest FG’s aggressive behavior, even though Adeena is reportedly mortified and embarrassed by it? And even though the tactics could have led to legal charges?
- Why does the Kohn family pay for a divorce lawyer but not FG, despite the campaign resting so heavily on their name and reputation? Why is it so important that it all be “pro bono,” as we have been told, with no contract and no financial trail?
This theory answers all three questions at once.
It’s very simple: With Adeena Kohn financially controlled and emotionally frail, the mother-in-law had a plan.
This is the woman who engineered the “permanent temporary” relocation of the family in the first place.
While her daughter was not in reality.
To an apartment literally across from her.
Who met with Agunah divorce lawyer James Sexton (think Lonna Kin) while Adeena was still freshly impaired.
The woman under whose influence Adeena claimed to fear Raphi would take the kids away, back home to Montreal.
As a result the police were called, because Adeena took the passports and gave them to Rivka to hide in a safe deposit box in the bank.
The Theory: Rivka Weaponized FG’s Passion to Build a Defamation Machine
I believe Rivka Kohn may have reached out to FlatbushGirl (FG) immediately after the L’chaim podcast, timing the campaign to the moment Raphi’s public statement created maximum vulnerability.
I don’t know how Raphi ended up on that podcast, but I do know it got people talking.
I believe, although of course I cannot prove, that Rivka took the opening.
FG is a known firebrand.
She is intense, extremist, and built for escalation.
She’s a blunt instrument.
I believe the sneaky Rivka used FG’s own passion, hunger for relevance, and digital aggression to create a public-pressure machine against Raphi Stein—while keeping herself one step removed from the legal risk.
Weaponizing FG’s vanity, arrogance, and egocentric belief that nobody could take her down.
That’s a master manipulator at work: delegate the dirty work, absorb the benefit, claim distance.
Why the Family Didn’t Protest
It’s pretty obvious.
According to this hypothesis, the Kohn family didn’t protest the ever crazier levels of harassment, online and off, because Rivka wanted the full FG effect.
While Rivka wears a shaitel and a skirt, she let FB bring on the porn!
You see, FG’s extreme posts, relentless posting, and community-shaming tactics were the point. They weren’t a bug.
The pressure campaign only works if it looks grassroots, unfiltered, and relentless.
Yes, Adeena is reportedly embarrassed.
But in this theory, Rivka overrode Adeena’s objections (if she even voiced any) just the same way she moved before divorce proceedings were even initiated—by contacting James Sexton, the aggressive Agunah lawyer famous for high-pressure public shaming, while Adeena was still medically vulnerable.[1]
Adeena is reportedly so susceptible to her mother that she handed over passports out of fear Raphi would take the kids.
That’s not a small detail.
That’s the same dynamic.
Who manipulated that vulnerability? The family.
No Contract Is the Point
The family pays for Sexton, but there’s no contract with FG.
That’s not an accident.
No contract means:
- No paper trail of direction
- No financial liability
- No proof that FG is an agent
- Full deniability for Rivka
FG is the “pro bono” advocate, the independent hero, the community savior.
But the theory is that she’s the amplified extension of the family’s legal strategy—just uncontracted, unregulated, and uncontrolled on paper.
The Legal Logic: How Rivka Could Be Shielded While FG Is Screwed
Under New York defamation law, liability turns on who made and published the false statement.
The poster, not the influencer behind the scenes, carries the exposure—unless there’s evidence of direction, coordination, or material participation in the publication chain.[2][3][4]
I would not be surprised if a lawyer was consulted about FG’s impact on the case and the risk to the family.
Rivka may even have fed FG the narrative, documents, names, emotional framing, and tactical cues.
Meanwhile, FG did the public-facing work, certain that she was in the right even as someone may have stayed behind the curtain, pulling her strings.
That’s how someone can appear “legally shielded” while another person takes the visible risk.
Why FG Is Now Thrown Under the Bus
The same setup that made FG useful made her disposable.
If criminal or civil complaints are stacking up, FG is the one exposed.
Screenshots, posts, DMs, call logs, witness statements—these show who said what, when, and with whose input.[3][4][2]
The scam behind the campaign is quickly withering.
The Beis Din of America, which issued the seruv authorizing civil court that FG has been waving around, is meeting with Raphi Stein.
Stein has been rehired at his job.
FG is left carrying a slew of potential charges—her crazy posts, rhetoric, and minion behavior are all admissible as evidence—while Rivka can sit back and claim distance.[5][1]
That’s how these arrangements end: the loudest operator gets blamed, the strategist stays hidden.
Discovery Is the Smoking Gun
In the end, discovery will force disclosure of communications between Rivka and FG—phone logs, texts, emails.
When that happens, the legal fiction of a “spontaneous, independent pro bono advocate” will likely collapse.[6]
Ultimately—and again I do not know but one can hypothesize—a paper trail could expose a direct pipeline of contact, information and coordination from Rivka to FG.
That would transform FG from independent advocate into something far less clear.
It All Adds Up
This theory answers all the hanging questions:
- Timing: Campaign started right after the L’chaim podcast because Rivka reached out then.
- Silence: Family didn’t protest because they wanted the FG effect.
- Adeena’s Embarrassment: She was overridden, just like when Rivka contacted Sexton before divorce proceedings.
- No Contract: No contract means no liability, no exposure, full deniability.
- FG’s Increasingly Unhinged Ranting: FG realizes is the one carrying the risk, not Rivka.
Conclusion
The trap was set when a vulnerable woman’s illness was weaponized using an aggressive legal playbook.
Now that discovery looms and the innocent party is back at work, the phone records aren’t just a paper trail—they’re evidence of how these women used each other, and how the entire scheme collapsed.
DISCLAIMER: This is a theory, not an allegation. It is a hypothesis about power, strategy, and the legal logic of outsourced pressure. The author is not a lawyer. All are innocent until proven guilty.
Sources:
[1] Orthodox women bare skin in get-refusal protest https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hjziwqzkmx
[2] Do Defamation Laws Actually Protect Your Reputation … https://www.daeryunlaw.com/us/insights/new-york-defamation-law
[3] False Accusations— – Defamation – of Character by – Libel https://www.nycbar.org/get-legal-help/article/personal-injury-and-accidents/false-accusations/
[4] Defamation | New York Libel Lawyer Daniel A. Singer https://www.dasingerlaw.com/practice-areas/defamation/
[5] FREE 26 YEAR OLD YENTE REIZE FROM THE STEINMETZ … https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCSIfJbADnx/
[6] Legal Toolkit https://www.postpartum.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PSI-Legal-Justice-Toolkit.pdf
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 