Tag: Jewish Community Center

Last week the FBI issued a “concrete threat” warning to synagogues across New Jersey; the alert was discontinued after a suspect was taken into custody.

Ruth’s House is “located within a short distance of three Jewish temples, a Jewish private school, and a Jewish Community Center.”

Monday's announcement of additional funding came after UJA had pledged more than $23 million in immediate aid last week.

The Krakow struggle appears to be between the old guard, the Jakubowiczs and their relatively few supporters (about 150, according to media reports), and the newcomers, Chabad Lubavitch.

In recent years, a growing number of these individuals, popularly known as the “Hidden Jews of Poland,” have begun to explore their connections to Judaism

Following the incident, the local Jewish community decided to post security guards at his home.

“Today the leaders of the world in Europe, in South America, all over are failing in their responsibility to learn the lessons of the past."

Trump said US lawmakers "should very much bring the death penalty into vogue" so that people who attack synagogues and churches "really should suffer the ultimate price."

“We will continue our extensive security measures and ask the community to remain alert and vigilant,” the center said in a release.

He told the court he intended "to disrupt my ex-romantic partner's life and cause her great distress" after she had ended their relationship.

The hateful graffiti was smeared on the JCC's exterior near the end of the traditional Passover seder in many local Jewish homes.

Emphasizing "there was no hatred" behind the calls, the boy's father said it was the "illness" that pushed him.

Most of the Jewish Community Centers that received threats had received them before, including the one in Vancouver, where the JCC was threatened last week.

A sixth wave of bomb threats has struck American Jewish institutions across the United States -- but some centers chose not to evacuate this time.

The suspect faces a judge in St. Louis, then goes to NYC where he could face five years in prison if found guilty.

In several incidents in January there were a total of 60 bomb threats called into 48 JCCs in 26 states -- all hoaxes.

This is the third wave of phoned-in bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States this month.

The JCC had been on high alert since Monday, when a series of bomb threats where phoned to JCC's around America.

So far the FBI has not mentioned suspects, motive, or a theory as to why the callers targeted Jewish centers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and South.

Jewish community centers in American East Coast cities and Jewish schools in London, England were evacuated due to called-in warnings of explosives in the buildings.

Which part of "the importance of the use of boycott to get international attention towards pressuring Israel to end the occupation is unquestionable" means the author is opposed to boycotts of Israel? None, that's why the author deleted them days after the article was published.

Vandals defaced a Portland synagogue and a community center with racist graffiti. “White power” was written in red spray paint on promotional banners at...

The teen loner awaiting trial for the firebombings of two northern New Jersey synagogues has been charged with an additional arson attempt at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus.

Every year, Pesach is one of the most celebrated holidays throughout the world - and Pesach in Poland is no exception. This year there were numerous private and public sederim around the country.

Every time I come to Poland there is some new sign of the resurgence of the religious Jewish community.

Last week, Mr. Sigmund Rolat visited his birthplace in Poland, the city of Czestochowa. As he does on every trip, he took time out to pay his respects to the local Jewish cemetery.