North Miami Beach Jewish school shuttered over bomb threat

A Jewish day school in North Miami Beach was emptied following a bomb threat.

The Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes school, which has enrolled 600 students from early childhood to high school, received a fax on Sunday demanding $25,000 in ransom and threatening to detonate explosives already in place at the school if the demand is not met, WSVN News 7 reports late Sunday.

The message warns school officials not to call police, saying if they do so “I’ll know.” The letter also says the would-be bomber has access to the school’s computers and email addresses, according to The Yeshiva World news website. The letter demands that the money be sent to a certain address in the United States via Western Union by May 31.

Roads near the school campus are shut down and bomb-sniffing dogs search the area. No bombs are found.

— JTA