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Alex Werzberger and Hasidic Leaders

duck: If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it a duck, said Alex Werzberger, a spokesman for Outremont Hasidic Jews, according to National Observer. They dont want us here. The law forbids all new temples of any denomination from opening on the mixed commercial and residential strip but no one in the area has any illusions that the main group targeted is the borough growing Hasidic Jewish community. They are hoping to squeeze us out. Every few years tensions flare-up in the neighbourhood between Hasidic leaders and a pocket of citizens who claim observant Jews in the borough are trying to exert their influence too strongly. Outremont councillor Celine Forget, who is spearheading the campaign to ban new temples on the avenue, said in an email that Werzberger comments are part of the Jewish lobby trying to attract the attention of journalists. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.