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News Days Of Tears And Terror For Parents As Bomb Threats Drive Toddlers From JCC Classrooms
At 11:10 a.m. on Monday, Sarah Doron-Goldstein’s phone buzzed with a text message: Her 5-year-old daughter’s preschool had been evacuated. The preschool, at the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was one of more than a dozen Jewish schools and community centers to receive bomb threats Monday, in the latest wave to…
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Fast Forward Roma Join Jews To Turn Budapest Club Into Anti-Government Hub
BUDAPEST (JTA) — Although she lives in the undisputed nightlife capital of Central Europe, Andi Angelip knows of only a handful of bars here where she is truly comfortable bringing a date. Angelip, a 19-year-old student and activist for lesbian and gay rights, said she avoids “rainbow” establishments that cater only to homosexuals. Yet in…
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Fast Forward Fresh Batch Of Bomb Threats Hit 8 JCC’s and Day Schools
(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…
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Fast Forward Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation Of New Orleans JCC
(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…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward Trump Condemns Anti-Semitism In Strongest Terms Yet
(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…
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Fast Forward San Diego JCC Evacuated After Emailed Bomb Threat
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…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call On Trump To Condemn JCC Bomb Threats, Anti-Semitism
(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…
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