The individual phoning in threats to Jewish community centers and institutions nationwide is using devices to make his voice sound feminine and disguise his phone number, according to John Miller, the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism. “We have what appears to be one offender behind a large number of these and then…
Police said they are investigating a bomb threat called into the Jewish Children’s Museum early Thursday in Brooklyn, according to DNA Info. The call happened just before opening hours in the Crown Heights neighborhood. It is the latest in more than 130 bomb threats called into JCCs, Jewish schools and other institutions nationwide since the…
Even though nearly half of the country’s Jewish community centers have received bomb threats; swastikas have defaced schools, colleges and synagogues, and cemeteries have been desecrated, there still seems to be a question about whether America is really experiencing a surge of anti-Semitism. Mystifyingly, other Jews are asking the question. While those skeptics decry the…
(JTA) — Executives from 141 Jewish community centers signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing frustration with efforts combating a rash of bomb threats. The letter, sent Wednesday by the JCC Association of North America, the national organization of Jewish community centers, requested a meeting with Sessions and urged the Justice Department to do more to…
Last week, liberal rabbi Danya Ruttenberg wrote a popular tweet storm, addressing the anti-Semitic attacks against the American Jewish community. Ruttenberg posited that while there may be in increase in non-violent actions against American Jews, we are not as vulnerable as other communities and thus we should support those in the more helpless Muslim and…
The former journalist arrested this morning and charged with making bomb threats to Jewish institutions appears to have submitted one of his threats to the Forward’s tip line. Juan Thompson, 31, is accused of making threats to at least eight Jewish institutions as part of a campaign of stalking and harassment against a woman who…
Updated 10:23 a.m. Federal agents arrested a man Friday morning suspected of making bomb threats to at least eight Jewish institutions in January and February, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed to the Forward. The man, Juan Thompson, is accused of making the threats as part of a campaign of…
In a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer asked that Jewish Community Centers be granted special permission to track threatening phone calls. “I am urging the FCC to grant a critical waiver, which will allow targeted JCCs to work with local law enforcement to access the critical caller…
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