Jewish Children's Museum in New York evacuated for bomb threat

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



09 MAR 2017 AT 14:40 ET

The Jewish Children’s Museum in New York City was evacuated for a few hours on Thursday after it received a bomb threat by email, police said, the latest in a rash of recent threats to U.S. and Canadian Jewish organizations.

The museum, a multi-media center of Jewish history and heritage, was reopened around midday after police said they found no explosives during a search of the six-story building in the city’s Brooklyn borough.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was nearby for an unrelated news conference when the museum was evacuated, told reporters at the scene that a special state police unit was being assembled to investigate the rash of threats to Jewish organizations.

“It’s immoral, it’s unethical and it’s also illegal, and we are going to find the people who are doing these threats,” Cuomo said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/jewish-childrens-museum-in-new-york-evacuated-for-bomb-threat/

[Submariner]

1. Republican thugs tipping over gravestones in Jewish cemeteries and now this

republican Trumpflakes are feeling their Wheaties with the racist anti-semite birther in the WH. F them.

[Blue Idaho]

2. Making America Great since 2017. nt.

[Sunlei]

3. 800? terrorist bomb threats effect THOUSANDS and Americas Government Can't TRACE PHONE CALLS?

[melm00se]

4. IP calls

can be a challenge to trace if it swings thru an anonymizer or thru another country.

You know those calls you get saying "the IRS is coming to arrest you unless you go and get a gift card and give me the number"? They are impossible to trace too.

[yuiyoshida]

5. Its amazing how Trump can inspire and embolden so many of these people

to want to be anti-Semitic, Racist, Sexist, misogynistic and anti-LBGTQ in public and to do the damage they just want to do. Many of them are Christians or claim to be. This hatred of all things different is not apart of any Religious teaching. In fact, its not only the opposite, its embraced wholeheartedly.

[SoCalMusicLover]

6. How Can That Be?

Drumpf's daughter is Jewish. He'll put a stop to this.

I'm sure it's just a quirky coincidence that these threats are occurring frequently since the year began.

[hjh3rd]

7. I live in the neighborhood and

Since the election swastikas have been popping up all over the place. The irony of it is that there is a large Hasidic community here that ended up voting for Trump. To think this is happening in Brooklyn is really unbelievable.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Startling, horrific information. Had never heard this. Good to hear it from someone who knows.

Was so unaware that a community in the area supported Trump. Would never have imagined.

Welcome to D.U.

[hjh3rd]

11. Thank you and I look forward to being here!

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Wow! Thanks for the first hand information.

For me, it's tough to imagine anyone voting for Trump, let alone a community which has been the target of bigotry. I'm also in New York, but I'm in the Northeast. I had never run into a Trump supporter until I took a drive up North to visit a friend who lives in a fairly remote area near the lakes that are a summer tourist destination. And there were Trump yard signs all over! I got lost, but I was afraid to stop and ask for directions...

Welcome to DU! We're glad to have you with us!

[58Sunliner]

8. I read that the calls seem to be coordinated and some are from abroad.

Why a coordinated effort against Jews? I get the conquer and divide, and the goal of making everyone afraid by these actions. Maybe they are simply easy targets. Is it simply because they are not "Christians"? All of the above? Are they prominent in the media as well as entertainment and have supported liberal causes and people want to dis-empower them? I suppose it is all of the above.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. The Trump MAGAts have been in fine form lately.

Hopefully, when that bloated, orange fart balloon is impeached, they'll crawl back under the rocks from which they came.

[inanna]

12. Reuters: Jewish leaders express frustration with investigation into threats

March 8, 2017

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 140 Jewish community center leaders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday expressing frustration with the progress made in identifying whoever is responsible for this year's wave of bomb threats against Jewish interests.

The letter, sent by the JCC Association of North America and signed by 141 of the group's leaders, came as two more community centers received threats of violence on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a fresh round of threats were received by more than a dozen Jewish organizations, bringing the total to approximately 140 after five previous waves.

"We are frustrated with the progress in resolving this situation," the leaders wrote. "We insist that all relevant federal agencies, including your own, apply all the resources available to identify and bring the perpetrator or perpetrators, who are trying to instill anxiety and fear in communities across the country, to justice."

On Wednesday, a Jewish center in West Hartford, Connecticut, received an emailed threat early in the morning, while another center in Louisville was evacuated after a phoned-in threat arrived around noon, according to local media reports. A Vancouver center also received a bomb threat late on Tuesday night.

...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jewish-leaders-express-frustration-investigation-threats-230842320.html

[March 4th]

14. With Steve Bannon in the White House...

nobody should expect much of a probe.

[Little Tich]

13. There's a very fine line between threatening with violence and actually committing violence.

Every single threat must be treated as completely serious.