New York – This Jewish Lawyer Yelled At Restaurant Employees For Speaking Spanish. Now He’s In Trouble.

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    Aaron Schlossberg, center, at a May 2017 rally. New York – It’s hard to say what inspired Aaron Schlossberg to go off on a bigoted tirade against employees at a local cafeteria.

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    But one day later, he has officially transformed from being a random lawyer in midtown Manhattan to being the new face of internet shame. His office is being bombarded by bad reviews. Videos are surfacing of his previous outbursts. He made the front page of the New York Daily News. A congressman wants to get him investigated.

    So if you’re Aaron Schlossberg, the days of being an anonymous angry dude are over. (Also, if you’re Aaron Schlossberg, please call me. I’d like to interview you. My contact information is in the email and phone messages I sent.)

    Schlossberg’s moment of infamy began on Wednesday, when he was filmed complaining in a Manhattan Fresh Kitchen about employees who were speaking Spanish to one another and a customer. Then he accused them of being illegal immigrants (without, it seems, any actual evidence) and threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) to have them arrested.

    “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” Schlossberg said. “It’s America … And my guess is, they’re not documented. So my next call is to ICE to have each one of those kicked out of my country.”

    Things spiraled from there. Someone posted a video of the encounter. Shaun King, an anti-racism activist and columnist with a large social media following, uncovered Schlossberg’s identity. Then another journalist published video of Schlossberg at a right-wing Jewish protest against Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour last year, accusing pro-Palestinian Jews of faking their religion.

    By Thursday morning, New Yorkers who hadn’t heard of Schlossberg could see a full-page photo of him on the cover of the New York Daily News, a leading tabloid, with the headline, “Jodete, idiota!” (Spanish for “screw you, idiot.”)

     

    Then another video surfaced, this one from 2016, of Schlossberg calling someone an “ugly f*cking foreigner.” (If it matters, the target is, in fact, a United States citizen.)

     

    Here is what we know about Aaron Schlossberg: He’s a contract lawyer in midtown Manhattan, at a self-named firm he founded in 2012. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University Law School. Ironically enough, his website says he speaks fluent Spanish, along with a few other languages. He donated $500 to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. He’s been to Israel twice.

    Schlossberg is just the latest person to be lambasted via video for issues involving race. A video of two black men being kicked out of a Starbucks and arrested led the chain to announce a one-day closing of its U.S. stores for sensitivity training. Videos of police being called because people of color were napping in a dorm, barbecuing in a park and staying in an Airbnb have also sparked backlashes.

    Beyond the public shaming, Schlossberg appears to have suffered concrete harm from his Fresh Kitchen fracas. Adriano Espaillat, a first-term congressman from Upper Manhattan, is filing a grievance against him with the New York State Bar Association. As of noon on Thursday, 8,000 people have signed a petition to get him disbarred.

    In the meantime, reporters (including me) have tried unsuccessfully to get a hold of Schlossberg, including some (not me) who confronted him in front of his apartment. But he seems determined to erase whatever online presence he has. His LinkedIn page is gone. So is his firm’s Facebook page.

    But that hasn’t stopped people from filling his firm’s Yelp page with terrible reviews.

    Others are having more fun with the controversy. As reported by Gothamist, a GoFundMe page has raised more than $1,000 to send a Mariachi band and a taco truck to Schlossberg’s office. More than 1,000 people say they plan to go to a “Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s Midtown office” on Friday, according to Facebook.

    No word on whether Schlossberg will attend.


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    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    Cohen is out. Schlosser did this spiel to get Trumps attention when he is hiring his new FIXER. A genius way to get his attention. They will be good together.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    Biggest which hunt in american history. A nice very stable genius Jewish boy.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    “Schlossberg at a right wing Jewish protest. ” Starting to understand from where many Trumpists on this site getting their “EDUCATION”

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    “Donated 500.00 to Trump” What a surprise, Mr Educated was right the whole time, even some people with education voted Trump.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    Just look at the picture. What a beautiful crowd. They clearly look like very educated am yisroel. The Neturei Karte starting to look pretty good. They sure dont make a CHILUL HASHEM like this. They dont scream and shout like this erev rav and they only follow their Posek.

    5 years ago

    Mussar haskail for all on how we conduct ourselves publicly and privately. Chazal understood 2,000 years ago pre i-phones that “Ayin roeh vozen shomaas vhakol bsefer nichtovim.”

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    Slow news day by that rag of a tabloid paper.

    Guess they have nothing on Trump that they try to associate this guy with the Trump campaign.

    That’s like associating every gang badger that voted for Obama with Obama and every person that had relations with an employee with Bill Clinton.

    5 years ago

    Just an FYI , at my company we had two Indian interns sitting and chatting in their native language next to me . And a senior executive passed by and he turns to them and says ” if you don’t mind while you are here please only speak English . I thought he was quite offensive but this is a very “educated ” guy . So much for white hicks

    5 years ago

    Here in California 75% population talk Spanish and we are US citizens.
    Why are you so against Spanish talking.
    What if I go a Restaurant and talk Yiddish? Would you call the Immigration police ?

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    5 years ago

    He doesn’t realize that we don’t live in a normal country. In a normal country, if you insult someone, they punch you in the face but you then get on with your life. In the US, if you insult someone’s ethnic group, they can ruin your life forever.

    5 years ago

    What a Jewish fool making a total chilil Hashem? We all sit out in restaurants and chat in English sometimes in Yiddish and our friends from abroad may speak Spanish among themselves. This is called a diverse nation. Should I call ICE on them. He hardly looks Jewish to me but just enough that he is and made a sucking fool out of himself. A self hating Jew with such nasty language spewed. What an embarassment.

    Cricket
    Cricket
    5 years ago

    A powerful insight to me from this story is to compare the reaction of the reacting people to what the reaction of a Ben Torah acting with daas Torah would be if he felt in a given scenario he witnessed racist remarks and was obligated to give reproof. Not commenting on the story here itself but rather observing what the ideal reaction to such scenarios should be.

    5 years ago

    To #12 - Your dumb remark “he hardly looks Jewish to me”, is just as bad as his castigating people for speaking a foreign language. What is Jew supposed to look like?

    curious
    curious
    5 years ago

    I for one would like some context. The guy was clearly in amood to begin with. Not an excuse, but… Was he pissed because they kept messing up the orders? I find it hard to believe the Spanish alone was enough to create that kind of outrage. If it was, he would have had a coronary by now, living in the Manhatran melting pot.