Jewish Centers get FCC help in tracking bomb threats

“And now we’ve had three bomb threats this year”, said the CEO of a JCC in the Northeast who wished to remain anonymous for fear of copycats targeting his center.

Police cleared the scene and Market Street had reopened by 7:14 p.m., according to a statement from the San Francisco Police Department on Twitter.

“The diligence of law enforcement at such a critical time for the Jewish community is very reassuring”, said Bernstein.

The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, and the Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax, Virginia, also received telephoned bomb threats, according to a statement by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. “I call on the government to urgently prepare and establish a national emergency program for the possibility that we will see waves of our Jewish brothers immigrating to Israel”.

Authorities said he followed that up with similar messages to a Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and to a school and community center in Manhattan. The detective told Thompson that his “conduct must stop”, and to leave the woman alone, the complaint says.

A Jewish community center on Mercer Island was shut down Monday night after police received reports of a bomb threat.

Foxman, who now heads the center for study of anti-Semitism at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in in NY, believes the Jewish community is making a serious mistake in trying to pin the raise of anti-Semitism on Trump and in expecting the president to come up with the answer to the problem.

Juan Thompson, 31, was busted Thursday in St. Louis and accused of making at least eight threatening calls to the Jewish Community Centers as part of his sustained effort to destroy the reputation of a former gal pal, authorities said.

On Friday, Thompson was arrested in St. Louis.

“It makes us all more visible”, Singer said.

The first nationwide wave of threats against Jewish centers took place on January 9 of this year.

In another round of emails and phone calls, he gave the woman’s name, rather than his own, the court complaint said. In the middle of the day, you know who’s at a JCC?

Fredrick Lemons said detectives would also question Thompson about the headstones toppled at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery on February 18 and 19, but declined to say whether he was considered a suspect.

Trump has since called the threats disgusting and painful and made note of them during his speech to Congress on Tuesday night. Prior bomb threats occurred at Jewish institutions in Miami, Kendall and twice in Miami Beach.

Thompson was a reporter for the Intercept, a news website, until he was sacked previous year for allegedly inventing sources and quotes. “But life goes on and they forget about it pretty quickly”, he said.

A day after the relationship ended, Thompson sent an email purporting to be from a producer at a national news organisation to her boss at a social service company in NY, according to the complaint.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly recently pledged added support to Jewish communities after “unacceptable and escalating threats and actual harassment directed at faith-based communities around the country, with a particular focus on threats to Jewish Community Centers”.

The ADL and several other Jewish groups had met Friday with FBI Director James Comey.