A rabbi and his wife kidnapped an Israeli man, beat him up and threatened to bury him alive if he didn't give his wife a religious divorce

David and Judy Wax are accused of luring Yisrael Meir Briskman to their comfortable suburban home, where they handcuffed him, blindfolded him and threatened to have his father killed. The couple, who have eight children, have been charged in federal court after they surrendered to the FBI. At one point Wax, 49, showed Briskman a body bag and told him that if he did not comply, he would be buried alive in the Pocono Mountains, according to court documents. Then he laid the body bag on top of 36-year-old Briskman. If found guilty of kidnapping the pair could be sentenced to life in prison. The couple are not thought to be related to Briskman, and police said that they had no conclusive motive for the kidnapping. Briskman had fled Israel two years previously, after refusing to grant his wife a get, an Orthodox Jewish divorce document which allows a woman to remarry.