Another round of threats against Jewish community institutions across the United States forced the facilities to be evacuated on Tuesday, the groups said. Threats were phoned in or emailed to JCCs in New York, Wisconsin and Florida overnight and early on Tuesday. The threats have continued even after a federal investigation of phoned and emailed…
This city’s share of the national spike in anti-Semitic incidents has been notable: Two JCCs have been evacuated because of bomb threats, and both the Chicago Loop Synagogue and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center have been vandalized and defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, among other events. But after seeing the desecration of two Jewish…
(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…
The alleged stalker charged today with making bomb threats to Jewish institutions will also face questioning from local Missouri police in connection with the vandalism last month at a St. Louis cemetery, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis today and charged with making threats to at least eight…
Federal agents arrested a 31-year-old disgraced former journalist on Friday morning with making bomb threats made against Jewish centers. Everything about the arrest and the charges is weird and confusing. So they got the guy making the bomb threats to JCCs? Well, yes and no. A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan on…
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…
Abraham Foxman has been delivering a surprising message to Jewish leaders in recent weeks: Stay calm and lay off President Trump. “I’m telling them: ‘Cool it, cool it,’” he said, “But it’s very tough. People are very emotional.” The former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who had spent a lifetime calling out any expression…
In a rare spot of irony amid the potential for tragedy in the threats leveled against Jewish community centers nationwide, Dallas’s JCC didn’t respond to a recent threat because it landed in the organization’s spam folder, only to be discovered when police alerted the JCC about a possible threat. “That’s right,” Dallas News columnist Robert…
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