ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — A rabbi who lives next door to the New Jersey mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy sought to stay during his first U.S. visit wants to buy the site and turn it into a Jewish learning center.
Libya has owned the 4-acre Englewood property since 1983, and Khadafy wanted to stay there while visiting the United Nations in September.
That plan was scrapped when it drew widespread outrage and legal challenges in New Jersey, which lost dozens of residents in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that was widely thought to have been the work of Libyan intelligence.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach told The Record of Bergen County that he wants to raise up to $6 million to buy the property, but there’s no indication Libya wants to sell.
