Another Wave Of Bomb Threats Hits Jewish Community Centers, Schools

About 90 threats have been made to Jewish facilities, including a Bay Area community center and the ADL’s San Francisco office since the start of the year.

A woman employee at the Joan and Alan Bernikow JCC at 1466 Manor Road received a call between 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. from a person who seemed to be a man who made a bomb threat, Lasser said.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said in a statement Monday that he’s asked state police and federal homeland security officers to investigate.

The Indianapolis JCC threat came the same day as threats to JCC and Jewish schools in several other states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Delaware, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Alabama.

At least 21 Jewish community centers (JCCs) and Jewish day schools received bomb threats Monday, in what has become a common method of targeting the American Jewish community in recent months.

Jeffrey Savit, President and CEO of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, said the building was given the all-clear Monday afternoon.

No bombs were found at any location.

The incident in Mt. Carmel Jewish cemetery itself comes less than a week after hundreds of Jewish graves were desecrated St. Louis in what many see as a continuation of anti-Jewish incidents, including numerous bombs scares at Jewish centers.

Police outside a JCC that received a bomb threat. “Again”, Churchill said, “were going to take it seriously”.

JCC member Rachel Kohr said that children at the center have been safely evacuated and relocated to York Suburban High School.

More than 100 people inside the school evacuated while police searched the building on Mattie Moore Court.

We are taking this very seriously and will continue to work intimately with federal and local law enforcement – in addition to our community partners across the country – as they cope during this hard time. “The NYPD is now investigating this incident and my office will be following updates closely”.