A celebrity rabbi who served as Michael Jackson’s spiritual advisor, counts himself a friend and “trusted ally” of RFK Jr., and lauded Donald Trump as “the greatest friend of Israel to ever occupy the Oval office,” is battling the condo board of his New York City apartment building over an amenity fee he allegedly sees as akin to Nazi genocide.

Last May, “America’s Rabbi” Jacob “Shmuley” Boteach used a common room on the 18th floor of the Riverside Boulevard tower on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to hold a small memorial service for Shani Louk, a 30-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist who was kidnapped and beheaded in the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the board and obtained by The Independent.

After the building billed Boteach, 58, its standard rental fee of $500, along with the customary $210 for cleaning, the board’s complaint contends the Kosher Sex author and father of nine “concluded that the Board’s charging him $710 is equivalent to the Holocaust.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rabbi-shmuley-boteach-antisemitism-condo-lawsuit-b2865543.html

 

What makes this story so compelling and not at all nuts is the fact that 3 of the 5 members of the condo board are Jewish. Anyway, we all know who the real villain is here: NYC's Socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani. This incident is just the tip of the iceberg heading NYC's way.

The real tragedy is that the memory of that poor girl has been dragged into this whole stupid argument.

Okay, Michael Jackson was Jewish?!? If Schmuley is aligned with RFK (WTF!) and Trump (no surprise), we already know who is really is. This is not about anybody's religion but about who they are as a person.

 

If Schmuley has to actually pay, it smells like Nazi genocide, not the IDF's.

16 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Anyway, we all know who the real villain is here: NYC's Socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani. This incident is just the tip of the iceberg heading NYC's way.

 

Zohran?