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Fast Forward After Day of 16 Bomb Threats, FBI To Coordinate With JCCs in ‘New Reality’
(JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day. On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with U.S. Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem…
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Fast Forward American-Style Jewish Community Center Opens in Kiev
(JTA) — The Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where Jewish cultural life has largely revolved around the city’s synagogues, opened its first American-style Jewish Community Center. The Halom JCC officially opened Tuesday at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests in central Kiev, where it is expected to serve thousands of community members every month, according…
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News A JCC Sprouts in Harlem as Jews Head (Back) Uptown
There were once set-in-stone dividing lines between the Jewish Upper West Side and predominantly black Harlem. But no more, with this week’s announcement that a Jewish community center will open uptown this January, the product of a wave of gentrification in the fast-changing uptown neighborhood. As reported in The Jewish Week, the center will open…
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Food Standing Room Only for Tasting the ‘Manifesto’
As a standing-room-only crowd of over 170 gefilte enthusiasts sat at tables listening to Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz dish about their their new book, “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods,” we heard a recognizable hiss from behind a black curtain. Fittingly, seltzer gas was being released as nibbles were plated…
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Fast Forward Ex-JCC Day Camp Counselor Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Porn
A former counselor at a JCC day camp in suburban Detroit pleaded guilty to sharing pictures of nude boys online. Matthew Kuppe, who was arrested last August after federal officials raided his home, pleaded guilty Thursday, the Detroit Free Press reported. Kuppe, 21, is accused of posting photos of naked boys on a Russian website,…
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Fast Forward Arizona Islamist Terror Suspect Eyed Tucson JCC
— An Arizona man accused of plotting attacks on government buildings in the state wanted to target the Tucson Jewish Community Center, a federal agent said. Mahin Khan, 18, is charged in Maricopa County Superior Court with terrorism for allegedly plotting to attack buildings in Tucson and Phoenix. A special agent with the Joint Terrorism…
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News Troubled JCC Association in Fresh Disarray With Surprise Departure of CEO
The sudden departure of the new executive director of the umbrella organization for Jewish Community Centers across North America is raising questions about the future of the troubled group. Stephen Hazan Arnoff’s resignation from the helm of the Jewish Community Center Association of North America, first reported , comes just 14 months into his 18-month…
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Fast Forward St. Louis JCC Worker Charged in Child Rape
A 20-year-old employee at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center has been arrested and charged with raping a child. William “Billy” Hogenmiller was charged Tuesday with rape in the first degree, the St. Louis Jewish Light reported the following day, after being arrested Feb. 26 by St. Louis County police. Hogenmiller previously worked at the…
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