Israel Matzav: 'Not in My Back Yard'

'Not in My Back Yard'

Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, a well-known author and television show host, discovered last week that he is going to have a new neighbor next door to his Englewood, New Jersey home in September: Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi.

Rabbi Boteach says he woke up one morning two months ago and noticed a disturbing sight on the grounds of his home. Eight large trees and a metal fence, which separated his property from his neighbor’s, were gone. The trees had been chopped down overnight, and the fence had been removed.

The perpetrators, claims Rabbi Boteach, were his neighbors, representatives of the Libyan government. The damage to his property and concurrent renovations on the neighboring home, a residence of the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations that had been in disrepair since the rabbi and his family moved to New Jersey a decade ago, led him to guess — correctly — why uncared-for property was suddenly being cared for: Libyan leader Moammar Kaddafi was coming.

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Israel Matzav: 'Not in My Back Yard'