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Not a Gett refuser. No inside information.
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Was he a Gett refuser?
From Stein’s Amended Verified Complaint — Raphael Stein v. Adina Miles Sash, Flatbush Girl Inc., Adeena Kohn, and John and Jane Doe Defendants 1 through 50 (Index No. 032319/2026, Rockland County Supreme Court, NYSCEF Doc. No. 14, filed April 30, 2026):
- ‘No court, no mutually recognized rabbinical court, and no Bais Din has ever issued any ruling or finding declaring Plaintiff a “Gett refuser.”’ (¶25a)
- ‘The first request for a Gett was made in January 2023, making the “five years” timeline arithmetically impossible on its face.’ (¶25b)
- ‘Plaintiff’s estranged wife has failed to participate in the Bais Din process required for a Gett. A Gett cannot be issued without her participation. The characterization of Plaintiff as the party withholding a Gett is therefore factually inverted.’ (¶25c)
- ‘The underlying divorce has not been finalized. No property settlement, custody agreement, or other resolution creating a definitive obligation to give a Gett exists as of the date of this Amended Complaint.’ (¶25e)
His side’s allegations — sworn, specific, unrebutted by any produced ruling, because none exists.
Read it yourself — NYSCEF guest search, no login: search Rockland County Supreme Court, Index No. 032319/2026, Doc. No. 14.
The public file is enough.
How Stein acted:
He litigated the divorce in court and delivered the get within 24 hours of the civil terms settling.
The filing describes the other side’s objective:
“Kohn’s participation serves a specific and concrete objective: to coerce Plaintiff, through public humiliation, third-party harassment, employment loss, threatened housing loss, and the targeting of his minor children’s school, into concessions on the contested custody and equitable-distribution issues in the pending matrimonial proceedings. The campaign exists to extract through extra-judicial pressure what Kohn cannot obtain through the orderly adjudication of those proceedings. (·45)”
And the campaign organizer’s own words — Adina Miles Sash, operating as Flatbush Girl (the lead defendant in the suit) — (·37), Instagram, February 22, 2025: ‘it doesn’t matter if we need to manipulate or trick you […] we’re gonna scam and con our way to the [divorce].’
You can’t be ‘refusing’ a divorce you’re actively litigating — the Gett was one open term inside an open divorce.
Adeena Kohn never asked for the campaign:
The New York Times (July 1, 2026) reports Sash ‘didn’t try to contact Stein’s wife, Adeena Kohn. Nor did she reach out to Stein’ — and in Sash’s own words: ‘I didn’t even know her name was Adeena. I only found it out a day after I went public.’
Adeena, through a friend, asked for privacy.
They settled it together:
‘He and Kohn reached a civil settlement together and he immediately gave the Gett as in 24 hours.’ (my July 4 Q&A on the NYT piece)
https://2026diaryofdannielleblumenthaljulydec.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/a-qa-about-the-fg-nyt-article/
It was a custody case:
Adeena filed for divorce seeking full custody in NY Supreme Court on October 4, 2021.
The federal case — Raphael Stein v. Adeena Kohn, No. 23-8078 (2d Cir. Nov. 21, 2024), affirming No. 22-cv-10683-VB (S.D.N.Y.) — was decided under ‘the “now settled” defense of Article 12 of the Hague Convention’; the court ‘denied the return to Canada, leaving the final custody determinations entirely to the state family court system.’ Cert docket:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-7482/363775/20250625094950710_20250625-094311-00000114-00003368.pdf
As I wrote: ‘a custody case in substance, even if it is being narrated as a religious dispute.’
It was never about the divorce.
It was about the kids.
The Agunah-campaign threat:
Stein’s own words, X, June 1, 2026 — December 2021, a year before the first documented get request:
“Rivka was already threatening an agunah campaign in December 2021. She spent at least a year working with Sexton and possibly another divorce attorney to character assassinate me in divorce court. Most men don’t survive these ordeals. It’s all God and I don’t take it for granted.”
My write-up:
The public record — both cases
- The defamation case — Raphael Stein v. Adina Miles Sash, Flatbush Girl Inc., Adeena Kohn, and John and Jane Doe Defendants 1 through 50: NYSCEF guest search → Rockland County Supreme Court, Index No. 032319/2026 (Doc. No. 14):
- The custody case: Raphael Stein v. Adeena Kohn, No. 23-8078 (2d Cir. Nov. 21, 2024), affirming No. 22-cv-10683-VB (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 20, 2023) — federal court records; cert petition at the Supreme Court link above. The state matrimonial file is listed in my coverage as Rockland County Index #SU-2004-008351.
Bottom line:
No authority ever called him a refuser, the timeline doesn’t work, the procedure needed her participation, they settled the civil case together, and the get followed within a day.
It was a custody fight narrated as a religious one.
That’s the public file — twice over.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 