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| [JTA] At least 12 Jewish community centers and institutions across North America and four Anti-Defamation League offices have received threats of lethal attack, the sixth such wave since the beginning of the year. As of Tuesday afternoon, threats had been reported at Jewish institutions in Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, Oregon, Florida, Alabama and at least two community centers in New York, according to Secure Community Network, the security arm of the Jewish Federations of North America. In addition, two threats were directed toward Canadian JCCs, in Toronto and London, Ontario. Some threats were called in over the phone, others were emailed. Chicago5, NBC’s reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... affiliate, reported a bomb threat at the Chicago Jewish Day School on the city’s North Side. The Boston Herald reported that a day school housed at Temple Beth Shalom in Framingham, Massachusetts, and the Solomon Schechter Day School in Newton, Massachusetts, were both evacuated on Tuesday. At the JCC in Syracuse, New York, the threat was different in nature from the others, according to Paul Goldenberg, the SCN director, who declined to elaborate. On Twitter, the Syracuse JCC said people inside had sheltered in place before getting the all-clear. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... the ADL said its national office in New York, its office in Washington, D.C., and its regional offices in Atlanta and Boston had been threatened. "This is not ’normal.’ We will not be deterred or intimidated," ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said in a statement. "It is time for action, and we call on the administration and Congress to take concrete steps to catch those threatening the Jewish community." The Portland, Oregon, threat came in Monday evening by email. The JCC alerted local police and the FBI and closed early for a sweep. In Rochester, the evacuation of members and staff on Tuesday was ordered shortly before 6 a.m., the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. About 75 people were evacuated from the building. Parents whose children attend the JCC day care were notified and asked to make alternate child care arrangements for the day, according to the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper. Local and state coppers and FBI agents reportedly were on the scene to sweep the building. A JCC Toronto client posted photos on Facebook of the downtown building being evacuated. "We are huddled inside the Second Cup where they are giving out free coffee and tea," she said, referring to the Canadian coffee shop chain. Ron Halber, the director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, said a threat to the JCC in Rockville, Maryland, was emailed late Monday night, and necessitated an additional sweep of the premises with bomb-sniffing dogs, in addition to the routine daily sweep the JCC undergoes. There was no evacuation, he said. "The person who is doing this will fail," Halber said. "If anything it’s bringing people together, it makes people want to stand up more, this is being a catalyst for greater Jewish involvement and pride." Goldenberg, the SCN director, said that in every instance protocols were observed and went smoothly. "The protocols and processes that these institutions have in place have gone smoothly," he said. "Our constituents and members have remained safe." More than 100 Jewish institutions, mostly JCCs, have received bomb threats since the beginning of the year. The last two weeks saw vandalism at Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia, St. Louis
Entire US Senate demands Trump take action on threats to Jewish centers [IsraelTimes] Open letter to the administration from all 100 senators comes amid a sixth wave of threats to Jewish institutions across North America. Brooklyn man arrested for drawing swastikas at Penn Station [IsraelTimes] A Brooklyn man was been arrested for drawing swastikas and other graffiti in men’s bathrooms at Manhattan’s Penn Station. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, said in a statement Monday that detectives from the transit service arrested Pasquale Vargas, 65.
Vargas admitted to writing the graffiti during an interview with MTA police, according to the statement. He was arrested while carrying a black Sharpie permanent marker in his bag. He was charged with eight counts of criminal mischief in the fourth degree, which are being prosecuted as hate crimes. In November, New York Governor Cuomo directed the creation of the State Police Hate Crimes Unit to investigate and offer assistance to other law enforcement agencies investigating potential hate crimes. Last week, the New York Police Department announced that Anti-Semitic incidents are up 94 percent in New York City over this time last year. Through the first two months of this year, 35 anti-Semitic incidents have been reported, compared to 18 through February 2016.
JCCs in Colorado, Delaware, Connecticut and Vancouver, Canada, receive bomb threats via email either last night or this morning, according to local reports and Paul Goldenberg, director of the Secure Community Network, which coordinates security across Jewish organizations. The emails, according to Goldenberg, appear to be the tail end of a wave of bomb threats Tuesday that targeted JCCs, Jewish day schools and several offices of the Anti-Defamation League. | |||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Entire US Senate demands Trump take action on threats to Jewish centers Be nice to hear Tom Perez, Keith |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-08 09:23 |
| #2 The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were surpringly unavailable for comment. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-03-08 08:57 |
| #1 Desensitization before strike by Submissives, or leftards working off their frustrations on soft targets? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-08 00:47 |