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Home Front: WoT
After 16 bomb threats in a day, FBI to coordinate with JCCs in ‘new reality’
2017-01-11
[IsraelTimes] It remains unclear whether a person or group was behind unprecedented simultaneous warnings.
Wasn't there something similar last year at a series of British schools? I seem to recall they eventually arrested a teenager for making terroristic threats, or something like that.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 Jewish community centers received bomb threats on the same day.

On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with US Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem from and how to craft protocols to handle such incidents in the future. Some communities already receive federal grants to provide for security.

The bomb threats, none of which appear credible, hit JCCs up and down the East Coast, in addition to two in the United Kingdom, prompting evacuations of buildings and campuses. According to Jewish communal security officials, the bomb threats came both from robocalls and from live telephone calls. It remains unclear whether one person or group was behind all the threats.

The FBI is investigating the bomb scares, according to Goldenberg.

Over the past two years, Jewish federations in major urban areas have hired coordinators -- mostly former federal law enforcement officials -- to ensure that all local Jewish institutions are secure and prepared to face threats. More than 20 such security coordinators have been hired.

Brenda Moxley, director of community security for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, was hired last year after serving as assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal branch in Miami. She ensures that more than 120 area Jewish institutions are prepared for incidents such as Monday’s, in addition to being in touch with law enforcement officials.

Moxley said the need for such procedure first arose following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and that Jewish institutions are now beginning to be proactive in responding to threats.

"Every day, it’s important to be vigilant," she told JTA. "It’s not about being paranoid; it’s just about being prepared."

Others point out that Jewish institutions began "hardening" their security after the 1999 attack on the North Valley Jewish Community Center near Los Angeles, when a white supremacist opened fire in the JCC lobby and maimed five people.
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