Florida’s new state budget includes a $650,000 grant for security at Jewish schools — a line item that’s raising questions among First Amendment advocates, the Miami Herald reports. The item was included in this year’s budget in response to the bomb threats to Jewish institutions that spread fear across the country. Those bomb threats were later…
(JTA) — Jewish federations lauded a proposed increase in security grant funding that helps protect Jewish institutions. Congress reached an agreement Sunday night that would increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program by $5 million from the 2016 allocation, the federations said in a Monday statement. The House and the…
Recently in our Jewish community, there has been an unsettling increase in bomb and security threats against our schools, community centers and synagogues. These threats should be taken seriously. Below are 5 tips for protecting yourself in these uncertain times. #1: Take Responsibility Did you know that during violent attacks, First Responders usually arrive after…
Israeli authorities arrested an American-Israeli teen Thursday for calling fake bomb threats into American Jewish institutions, seeming to crack a case that had set Jewish organizations on edge for months. With the possible end to a wave of phone and email bomb threats, the Forward spoke to Don Aviv, COO of the private security company…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Charles Schumer slammed President Donald Trump’s budget proposal that could jeopardize a security assistance program for nonprofits that benefits Jewish institutions, citing threats to Jewish sites across the United States. “At a time where perpetrators are terrorizing the Jewish community across the country, even here in New York, it makes no…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Citing the recent increase in threats to Jewish institutions, Jewish community officials urged Congress to preserve a security assistance program for non-profits that could be threatened under President Donald Trump’s budget. “Congress should consider ways to strengthen the program rather than dismantle it,” William Daroff, the Washington director of the Jewish Federations of North…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Orthodox Union is backing a bipartisan letter circulating in the Senate that calls for doubling security funding for non-profits, citing threats to both Jewish and Muslim institutions. “At a time when children being evacuated from daycare centers in response to repeated bomb threats and mosques are deliberately being set on fire,…
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…
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