Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal

Israel Kin: The Fake Agunah Crisis (Transcript)
June 4, 2026

Note and Disclaimer: Yes this is Meir Kin, whose ex-wife Lonna shmeared him all over town and became the feminist “Mother of All Agunahs.” LISTEN or READ before you judge. Another video is coming on his specific case. I do not know Mr. Kin. I am NOT a halachic authority and you should consult one before signing anything. Kin has asked that this be shared widely.

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TRANSCRIPT

Many people have reached out to me about the recent social media storm around the so-called “Agunah crisis,” driven in large part by Flatbush Girl, and they want me to respond to her claims. Are Flatbush Girl’s messages actually rooted in halacha, or are they just feminist narratives dressed up in religious language? Let’s dive right in.

Shalom, this is Meir Kin, and my channel is dedicated to exposing the truth about the current Jewish divorce system and helping men and women avoid the painful mistakes others have made. I created this channel because I have seen, up close, how secular courts, activist organizations, social media influencers, and even some so-called rabbinic authorities twist halacha, abuse power, and destroy lives. Make no mistake: the “Get business” is riddled with corruption, driven by money and feminism, and if you don’t navigate this system carefully, you can pay a very serious price. For the past 20 years I’ve been helping men and women resolve conflicts and achieve peaceful resolutions, and I myself went through an acrimonious divorce, so you can consider me someone who has “been around the block.”

Now, before we talk directly about Flatbush Girl, I want to clear up the biggest misconception in this whole discussion. I’m talking about the massive misinformation campaign that has been pushed for the past 10–15 years: the so-called “Agunah crisis.” There is no Agunah crisis. This slogan, this catchphrase, this banner, is a made-up battle cry invented by the Jewish feminist movement and the rabbinic deep state to rally people against men and pressure them to surrender their halachic rights regarding a Get. Let me repeat: there is no Agunah crisis. What we actually have is a divorce crisis. Feminists and the corrupted rabbinic deep state know that if they want to fight halacha—which cannot be changed—they must create a supposed “state of emergency” in the Jewish community to justify radical changes to how we handle Jewish divorce.

To understand this tactic, think back to the Covid-19 crisis that spread across the world. Hysteria was created, leading to extreme measures: forced vaccinations, mandatory masking of adults and children, social distancing, and even the shutting down of houses of worship. Doctors who for generations could prescribe medications off-label were suddenly forced into compliance on drugs like ivermectin, under threat of losing their licenses. Much of what we were told then is now being exposed as false or distorted. Just as Covid-19 was, according to many, a man-made virus used as a bioweapon, the “Agunah crisis” is a feminist-invented social weapon used to manipulate the public about a fake crisis and force changes in the way we execute Jewish divorces. So again: the “Agunah crisis” is a social weapon, not a real description of what is happening. I’m not here to debate medicine or your views on vaccines; I’m here to highlight a pattern: hysteria and fear are used to pass sweeping policies that later turn out to be based on misinformation.

At this point, you might be wondering: so what did the word “Agunah” originally mean? The women of this movement, together with corrupted rabbinic judges and the rabbinic deep state, took the Torah term “Agunah,” which had a very specific meaning, and twisted it into a 21st-century political slogan. The word “Agunah,” a “chained woman,” traditionally referred to a woman who, through no fault of her own, was stuck in a dead marriage because her husband had disappeared. He went overseas and was never heard from again—maybe his ship sank, maybe he remarried elsewhere, maybe he was kidnapped. In any case, she could not remarry until his death was verified. We recently read Megillas Rus on Shavuos. In chapter 1, verse 13, Naomi, trying to persuade her widowed daughters-in-law to return to their homeland, tells them not to follow her and thereby make themselves Agunos who cannot remarry. The term used is “תעגנה,” from the same root as Agunah. From here we see the concept of a “self-made” Agunah: a woman who ties herself down and becomes unable to remarry due to her own decisions. She is not a true victim of external forces; she has created her own situation.

So, traditionally, an Agunah was either a woman who was innocent of wrongdoing but whose husband had disappeared, or a woman who, by her own choices, made herself an Agunah. Now let’s bring this into today’s reality. Today, many of the women being called “Agunos” have, in fact, caused their own inability to remarry. Does it ever happen that a woman did nothing wrong and her husband simply refuses to give a Get? Yes, it does exist—but it is far too rare to be called a “crisis.” In most cases, the woman who cannot receive a Get has waged a treacherous and unhalachic war in the secular courts, leaving the man with no choice but to withhold the Get as a way to defend his rights to see his children, to have shared custody, and to avoid being stripped of his assets. These are his halachic rights. When the woman initiates divorce in the secular system—which is against halacha—and tries to strip him of all his rights, his withholding of the Get is not an unprovoked “action,” but a reaction to her nefarious behavior. In such cases, she has brought this situation onto herself and cannot honestly be called an authentic Agunah.

Divorce is war. It doesn’t have to be; it can be amicable. But when one side fires the first shots, the other side usually responds with fire. If the United States fires at Iran, Iran fires back. Had the wife not taken aggressive steps to strip her husband of access to his children and assets, the Get might have been much easier to obtain. You may have heard feminists and corrupted rabbinic judges say that a man can never use a Get as leverage and must give it immediately. That is another manufactured slogan, used to cover up the woman’s halachic violations in the divorce process. There is no concept in the Torah that one party can abuse another while the victim must quietly accept the abuse with no recourse. The Gemara teaches, “אין חוטא נשכר”—the sinner may not profit from his or her sin.

Now, let’s talk about how this plays out in the media and on social networks, because that’s where most people get their information today. You constantly hear that “men are abusive” and women are always innocent angels. To address that, I want to play a clip from a well-known rabbi who counsels many couples about marital abuse. What we see today is a systematic cover-up and manipulation of facts by Agunah agitators. In individual divorce cases, all the public hears is the final chapter: a woman who supposedly “cannot get a Get.” Do these agitators ever disclose what led to the divorce? No. Do they ever share that the woman went to secular court against halacha and stripped the man of his parental rights, his assets, and his dignity? No. All you hear is: “Mr. So-and-So is a Get refuser.” This is a deeply biased, one-sided narrative. When you read a book—whether fiction or non-fiction—if you skip to the last page, you might know how it ends, but you have no idea what actually happened because you never read the full story. Yet our community is being asked to judge people based only on that last page. Now that I’ve explained why the “Agunah crisis” is fake news, let’s turn to the person who is pushing a lot of this online: Flatbush Girl.

So who is Flatbush Girl, and why am I calling her out? Let’s look at her credibility, because in any court of law, a person’s claims are dismissed if they are known to lie, to be inconsistent, or to fabricate facts. Flatbush Girl is not credible, not consistent, and she has fabricated false information on multiple occasions. She is a paid social media influencer. She openly identifies as a staunch feminist and claims to fight for “Agunah rights.” So we already have a situation where a woman is paid to deliver outcomes in favor of women. Since she is fighting for a woman’s right to a Get—a religious document with specific religious procedures—let’s examine how committed she is to Torah and halacha while she demands that others follow halachos of Gittin.

First, Flatbush Girl has publicly supported late-term abortion and the idea that a woman has absolute control over her body. According to the Torah, abortion is akin to murder. Second, she promotes “bitul kiddushin,” essentially doing away with Gittin and replacing them with Jewish annulments. According to authentic halachic authorities, this is blatant adultery. Even the Israeli Rabbinate—whom I consider among the most corrupt and heretical rabbinic bodies today, and who are deeply involved in the rabbinic deep state, liberalizing halacha and often assisting women in extracting Gittin from men—they still oppose the “International Beis Din for Agunot” and its use of bitul kiddushin. Third, in the last couple of years, she has organized campaigns that most frum Jews clearly recognize as a break from basic modesty standards. This includes a “nudity campaign,” where she encouraged women to submit nearly nude photos of themselves; a “mikvah strike,” where she told women to refuse going to the mikvah to pressure their husbands into getting others involved to force a Get; and the display of a menorah shaped like a vibrator or another sex toy, making a mockery of a holy symbol and the mitzvah of Chanukah lights.

Ironically, her calls for women not to go to the mikvah, or to share near-nude photos, are themselves grounds in halacha for divorce, because they violate the laws of modesty and basic marital obligations. So while she claims to be helping women obtain Gittin, she is actually encouraging some women in stable marriages to sin in ways that could justify their husbands divorcing them. She is also inconsistent. Sometimes she promotes going to Beis Din; other times she attacks rabbis for “not doing enough” for Agunos. I don’t understand. When the Israeli Rabbinate freezes a man’s bank accounts, jails him, removes his driver’s license, and prevents him from leaving the country until he gives a Get, how can she claim rabbis aren’t doing enough for Agunos? She portrays herself as very religious, even wearing wigs, but then promotes campaigns like the nudity campaign that are openly anti-Torah. Here is an example of a statement she made online about vibrators. Are Flatbush Girl’s statements truthful? The answer is also no, and I have discussed this at length in my previous videos: “Flatbush Girl Mocks Jewish Law – V42,” and “Flatbush Girl: A Liar for Hire – Parts 1 and 2,” which I will link below. In those videos, I clearly demonstrate how she lies and fabricates facts. Recently, her Facebook profile advertised services promoting “open marriage.” Open marriage is simply a euphemism for adultery. To be honest, as terrible as Flatbush Girl’s personal chillul Hashem is—her degradation of Torah, halacha, and our customs, and her public promotion of immodesty—what upsets me even more is the silence from our rabbis.

And that brings me to a bigger problem: the state of our rabbinic leadership today. In 2026, we have no effective rabbinic system. Instead, we have a three-tier structure: first, corrupted rabbinic judges in many Batei Din; second, rabbis who know the halachos of divorce and know right from wrong, but choose to remain silent; and third, rabbis who simply do not know the halachos of divorce well and are unsure of themselves. Because this system is broken, people like Flatbush Girl feel free to make brazen, heretical statements about Torah, marriage, and divorce, confident that rabbis will be too afraid to confront them. In previous generations, when we had giants like the Chasam Sofer and the Chafetz Chaim, they were bold and unafraid to call out heresy and those who spread it. They understood that remaining silent in the face of heresy is effectively endorsing it. They would publicly excommunicate troublemakers who created unnecessary machlokes in our holy nation.

Today’s rabbinic failure to publicly rebuke her words and actions is also a Torah violation. The Torah says, “לא תעמוד על דם רעך”—do not stand idly by while your fellow’s blood is being shed. Public humiliation and false accusations are a form of bloodshed. Look at the case of Raphi Stein. He is being falsely labeled a Get refuser even though he went to his Beis Din, while his wife violated halacha by dragging him to secular court, alienating his children, and trying to have him imprisoned with a motion of contempt. This does not give his wife, his mother-in-law, or Flatbush Girl the right to publicly shame him to pressure him into giving a Get. This public campaign is so extreme that those who blindly follow Flatbush Girl are playing with fire. Public humiliation is akin to murder, and our Sages teach that one can lose his or her Olam Haba through it. Flatbush Girl and some of her followers may mock my words. But remember: Korach and his followers also mocked Moshe Rabbeinu, and we all know how that story ended. On top of all this, a Get obtained through coercion and public shaming is not valid. A Get must be given voluntarily, not under duress. If you don’t believe me, go attend a Get-writing at a Beis Din and listen to the dayanim ask the husband explicitly whether he is giving the Get willingly or under pressure.

So let me close by pulling this all together and telling you what to watch for going forward. I began this video by rejecting the idea of an “Agunah crisis” because militant feminists do not want you to hear the whole truth. They do not want you to read the story from the first page; they want you to look only at the last page, the moment when a woman claims she “cannot get a Get,” and ignore all the halachic abuse and anti-Torah actions that led to that point. So the next time you hear about or see protests against so-called “Get refusers,” do yourself a favor: don’t attend, and don’t support these events. They were created by people who profit from your gullibility and who run a very lucrative business built on destroying other people’s lives. Woe to our generation, which lacks authentic, loyal, and courageous leaders who will stand up for the truth, defend the Torah, and protect people who are falsely accused.

Before I close, I want to share a short video from a brave woman who identifies as a feminist but still knows right from wrong and has seen through Adina Sash Mile’s activities and exposed her lies. Dr. Blumenthal, thank you for your courage in standing for the truth. And finally, stay tuned for my next video. In that one, I will speak about my ex-wife, Lonna Ralbag. She presents herself as an Agunah to win the title “Mother of all Agunot,” even though a Get has been waiting for her at my Beis Din since 2008 and she simply refuses to pick it up. I will share timelines and details never before revealed, to show you yet another example of a fake and phony Agunah. See you then.