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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
New bomb threats made against multiple US Jewish community centers
Bomb threats have been called in against Jewish community centers in at least 10 US states in a similar occurrence to multiple threats made against JCCs last week.
JCCs in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, California, New York, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland all received threats, according to multiple local US news outlets.
A number of them have been given the all clear.
Last week, threats were reportedly received in Miami Beach and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as Rockville, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee ; South Carolina and California. Authorities were also investigating a bomb threat in a New Jersey JCC, a New York NBC affiliate reported.
Those calls were prerecorded in some cases and live in others, with the caller using voice-disguising technology, and likely came from a single source, said Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, the group affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North America that coordinates security for the Jewish community.
All the alerts were false, Goldenberg said, and designed to produce maximum disruption.
The Times of Israel Community.