Two more JCCs cleared after bomb threats

Jewish Community Centers in Rockville, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, have been evacuated after receiving threats, in the third and fourth incidents of the day, according to Secure Community Network, the security arm of the Jewish Federations of North America.

Earlier today, JCCs in Rochester, New York, and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, outside Milwaukee, were also targeted with bomb threats.

Paul Goldenberg, the SCN director, says that in every instance protocols were observed and went smoothly.

“Our constituents and members have remained safe,” he says.

More than 100 Jewish institutions, mostly JCCs, have received bomb threats since the beginning of the year. The last two weeks saw vandalism at Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Rochester, as well as two more waves of bomb threats called into JCCs, schools and institutions across the country, representing the fourth and fifth waves of such harassment this year. No explosive device was found after any of the calls.