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.
