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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

Jewish Community Center

The entrance to the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio, Texas, is seen in a local news report on an alleged planned mass shooting at center, aired June 19, 2025. (Screen capture: KSAT12)
June 21, 2025, 11:38 am
Suspect arrested for planning mass shooting at Texas Jewish community center
Director of San Antonio’s Temple Beth El says FBI told him plot targeted the city’s entire Jewish community; mayor vows to take ‘all necessary steps’ for Jewish safety
By Grace Gilson
The Pears Jewish Campus in Berlin is seen at its inauguration ceremony, June 25, 2023. (Toby Axelrod/ JTA)
June 30, 2023, 10:31 am
Chabad opens Germany’s largest Jewish center since before WWII
Berlin’s Pears Jewish Campus, which covers over 80,000 square feet and cost $43.7 million to build, will house a school, gym, movie theater, music studio and kosher deli
By Toby Axelrod
NaTang, left, and Jeffrey D. Schwartz inspect the rooftop plaza in Taiwan's new Jewish community center, currently under construction. (Glenn Leibowitz)
July 28, 2021, 3:48 pm
Taiwan to open its first-ever permanent Jewish community center
Non-denominational complex, funded by the Jeffrey D. Schwartz and NaTang JTCA, expected to launch in December; it will feature a synagogue, kosher restaurant, classrooms and more
By Yaakov Schwartz
Circles on a lawn at the Centro Deportivo Israelita, Mexico City's Jewish community center, drawn to guide social distancing. (Alan Grabinsky/ JTA)
October 24, 2020, 8:10 am
Mexico City’s Deportivo center united its Jews; now the pandemic isolates them
For 70 years, the massive community center has been the hub of Jewish life for a diverse group of 50,000, but fears of contagion in the hard-hit country have left it nearly empty
By Alan Grabinsky
Security camera footage of a firebomb attack on a Jewish community center in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, April 20, 2020. (Screen capture: Anash.org)
April 22, 2020, 2:53 pm
Jewish center in Ukraine lightly damaged by firebomb
Police open investigation into attack in city of Kherson; no reports of injuries, with building closed due to coronavirus
By Marcy Oster
A bingo game at the Kaiserman JCC outside Philadelphia in 2015. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
March 28, 2020, 3:45 am
Philadelphia Jewish community center lays off 176 workers due to virus outbreak
In a possible sign of what’s to come for US Jewish institutions, coronavirus restrictions force JCC closure, leaving staff without salaries and uncertain health coverage
By Ben Sales
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, talks to reporters in front of the Sidney Albert Albany JCC after the building was evacuated due to an emailed bomb threat, February 24, 2020. (Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo via JTA)
February 24, 2020, 10:52 pm
More than 50 JCCs nationwide receive emailed bomb threats
None of the intimidation, mostly made via identical messages, is found to be credible; source of warnings unknown
By Marcy Oster and Ben Sales
This undated photo provided by the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office shows James Reardon Jr, who is accused of threatening a Jewish center in Ohio. (Mahoning County Sheriff's Office via AP)
October 30, 2019, 4:35 pm
Ohio man who threatened Jewish Community Center to remain in custody
James Reardon, 20, who has been charged with firearms offense, is a danger to the local community, judge rules
By JTA
Screen capture of the Youngstown Jewish Community Center in Ohio. (Google Maps)
August 18, 2019, 12:59 pm
Ohio man arrested for implied shooting threat to Jewish center
James Reardon posts video of gunfire and screams, tags it with name of Youngstown community building; police find guns, anti-Semitic and white nationalist propaganda in his home
By Stuart Winer
Terri LaManno was killed Sunday, April 13, 2014, while visiting her mother at Village Shalom assisted living facility in Leawood, Kansas. (AP Photo/Courtesy of The LaManno family via Kansas City Star)
November 15, 2018, 11:32 am
Family of US woman killed by neo-Nazi settles lawsuit with Walmart over gun sale
Details of settlement between retailer and relatives of Terri Lamanno, fatally shot in 2014 outside Kansas JCC, aren’t disclosed
By AP
Illustrative: Swastikas found spray-painted on the JCC in Fairfax, Virginia, on October 6, 2018. (Screen capture/Twitter)
October 6, 2018, 11:51 pm
Police open probe after Virginia JCC vandalized with 19 swastikas
Senator Tim Kaine says incident is part of ‘insidious rise in hateful actions and anti-Semitism’ as community center targeted for second time in just over a year
By ToI Staff
Representatives from different JCCs worldwide participating in a 'speed dating' event aimed at pairing up different centers on 2-3 year long projects. The event took place at the Amitim 2.0 JCC Global conference from November 5-9, 2017. (Photo credit: Magali Druscovich)
November 19, 2017, 2:45 am
Matchmaking for communities: JCCs hold ‘speed-dating’ event at global confab
Community centers in North America and Israel mix it up, pairing with counterparts from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia on collaborative projects for the next 2-3 years
By Cathryn J. Prince
In this photo provided by KSHB41 Action News, authorities respond to the Jewish community center after a shooting in Overland Park, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/KSHB41 Action News)
August 2, 2017, 6:55 pm
Family of Kansas JCC shooting victims settles gun purchase suit
Relatives say Walmart allowed an accomplice to purchase weapon used in 2014 shooting by killer, a convicted felon
By AP
Mexico City mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera (Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)
March 28, 2017, 9:45 pm
Mexico City mayor lays foundation stone of new Jewish center
Miguel Angel Mancera hails community’s decision to build $5 million complex as sign of trust in country’s growth
By JTA
Police officers investigate a bomb threat outside the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester in Brighton, NY on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (Tina Macintyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)
March 15, 2017, 9:58 pm
Fresh wave of bomb scares hits three JCCs in US
Jewish centers in St. Louis, Atlanta, and Boulder receive bomb threats via email; all deemed non-credible
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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