(JTA) — At least eight Jewish community centers and Jewish day schools across the country received bomb threats on Monday in the latest wave of threats to hit Jewish institutions. The incidents are the fifth wave of such threats in less than two months. Among the affected JCCS are Asheville, North Carolina, and Davie, Florida, both…
(JTA) — A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center on Thursday morning. A phone call threatening a bomb attack was made to the JCC at 9:15 a.m., Katie Steiner of WWL-TV in New Orleans reported in a Twitter post. People were allowed back into the building about two hours…
(JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to set up a task force to catch the callers who have made false bomb threats to Jewish community centers across the country. In its statement issued Tuesday, the Jewish human rights NGO said it also called on President Donald Trump to outline his…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump denounced anti-Semitism a day after bomb threats to at least 10 Jewish community centers across the country and a large-scale cemetery vandalism in the St. Louis area. Under pressure to condemn anti-Semitism in the wake of what has been called an uptick in incidents since he was elected, Trump told…
A JCC outside San Diego evacuated the building and called the police after receiving an emailed bomb threat. It was the second threat the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, California received in the past month. The JCC received a bomb threat. SDPD did a sweep of the building and determined the threat…
(JTA) — Jewish groups called on President Donald Trump to condemn the wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the country, and to speak out against anti-Semitism. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt applauded a tweet by First Daughter Ivanka Trump in which she called for the protection of Jewish institutions and used…
(JTA) — A Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who made false bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, made the offer on Monday, hours after bomb threats were called in to…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump tweeted concern about the latest round of bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers Sunday and the White House responded to a reporter’s query by saying “these actions are unacceptable.” “Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,”…
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