American JCCs are failing to nurture connections between Jews. They can learn from their European counterparts
European JCCs are not only more financially accessible, but more effective at creating community
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News Brooklyn Moms Bond. 6 Years Later, A New Jewish Congregation Is Born.
Even in Brooklyn, there are wandering Jews. That’s how Marcella Kanfer Rolnick and Amy Abrams saw themselves in 2012. Both parents of students at the same Jewish school, the two women bonded over their shared longing for a spiritual home. “I felt like here I was telling my kids, ‘Go to a Jewish school, yes…
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Fast Forward Ex-Reporter Sentenced To Five Years In Prison for JCC Bomb Threats
Juan Thompson, the former journalist who bombarded Jewish community centers with fake bomb threats in a revenge plot against an ex-girlfriend, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison. In a New York federal court, the judge called Thompson’s crimes “domestic terrorism,” the New York Post reported. “This is domestic terror in the literal…
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Breaking News Some Parents Pull Children Out Of JCC’s — Others Vow To Ignore Bomb Threats
(JTA) — When Cincinnati’s Mayerson Jewish Community Center was hit with a bomb threat on Jan. 18, Adam Bellows was satisfied with how the staff handled the preschool kids, including his two-year-old son. The kids, said Bellows, had no idea the threat had happened. They were evacuated and taken to a secure location where they watched…
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Fast Forward Rochester JCC Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
(JTA) — The Jewish Community Center in Rochester, New York was evacuated early Tuesday morning due to a bomb threat. The evacuation of members and staff was ordered shortly before 6 a.m., the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. Police reportedly were on the scene. The bomb threat comes less than a week after at least…
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Breaking News JCCs Win Special Permission To Identify Callers Amid Wave Of Threats
(JTA) — The Federal Communications Commission has granted Jewish Community Centers throughout the country a temporary waiver allowing them to receive caller information, in response to the recent series of bomb threats on the Jewish institutions. The waiver, approved on Friday, comes days after 29 JCCs and Jewish schools across the country received called-in bomb threats, the fifth such…
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Breaking News Massachusetts JCC Evacuated After Bomb Threats
(JTA) — A Jewish Community Center in Massachusetts was evacuated after a bomb threat was found written on the wall of the men’s locker room. The Springfield Jewish Community Center was evacuated at about 3 p.m. on Friday. The city’s Arson and Bomb Squad, as well as police and firefighters, searched the building but did…
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Breaking News Wiesenthal Center Calls For Task Force To Probe JCC Bomb Threats
(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…
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