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January 18, 2017

At Least 25 Jewish Institutions Across US Targeted in Second Wave of Bomb Threats

Security after bomb threat at a Jewish Community Center in Newton, MA, January 18, 2017
"At least 25 Jewish institutions across the United States have received bomb threats, Jewish security officials said, in the second wave of such mass disruption in two weeks.

Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Networks - an affiliate of the Jewish federations of North America, which advises Jewish groups and institutions on security - said there were bomb threats called in Wednesday to Jewish community centers, schools and other institutions in Miami; Edison, New Jersey; Cincinnati; Alabama, and on the West Coast.

News reports also cited threats in Albany, New York; Nashville; suburban Boston and Detroit; West Hartford, Connecticut, and the Orlando area.

Additional threats were being reported early Wednesday afternoon...

Bomb threats were called into 16 institutions across the Northeast and South on Jan. 9, and hundreds of people were evacuated... In many cases Wednesday the callers were live, Goldenberg said, as opposed to the previous threat, when calls were recorded..."

Date
January 18, 2017
Title
At Least 25 Jewish Institutions Across US Targeted in Second Wave of Bomb Threats, JTA
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