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Third wave of phoned bomb threats hit 17 Jewish community centers
[IsraelTimes] At least 17 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with bomb threats in the third wave of such mass disruptions this month.

Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network -- an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America that advises Jewish groups and institutions on security -- said the threats were called in late Tuesday morning. Some of the messages were live, he confirmed.

"[I]n the past we know that the numbers can grow exponentially," he said,
..though they haven't thus far, which seems suggestive...
adding that perpetrators have been "leveraging technologies to make mass calls."

Goldenberg confirmed that threats had been called into JCCs in Albany, New York; Syracuse, New York; West Orange, New Jersey; Milwaukee, San Diego and Salt Lake City.

The JCC in New Haven, Connecticut received a live call at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday threatening violence. The JCC is housed in several locations following a Dec. 5 fire, and evacuated about 100 people from those places following the call. After law enforcement determined that the threat was not credible, the evacuees returned. The New Haven JCC was also targeted in a wave of bomb threats about two weeks ago.

"We recognize that we live under a new set of circumstances that we have to be responsive to, and take every possible precaution to keep our people safe," said New Haven JCC CEO Judy Diamondstein. "While we are disrupted, we refuse to be daunted by this."

Diamondstein said the JCC has drilled safety protocols extensively in order to be prepared for a situation like this. Diamondstein had a previously scheduled meeting Wednesday afternoon with an FBI officer to sharpen procedures for dealing with an active shooter.

"We have been diligent in looking at our security for a while now," she said.

On Jan. 18, some 30 Jewish institutions in at least 17 states received bomb threats. On Jan. 9, such threats were called into 16 JCCs across the Northwest and South, forcing the evacuation of hundreds.

This is what a JCC bomb threat sounds like: A recording of one of the phone calls that have recently caused repeated evacuations of Jewish centers in the US.
Maybe it's my ignorance, but the bit of audio at the link sounds to me like a stupid New York area teenager having a little too much fun.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-02-01
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