When hate is the new normal: Another threat at Dallas' JCC, a swastika on Woodall Rodgers
No doubt you've heard by now, if you pay attention at all to the internet or television or radio: Another round of bomb threats went out Monday to at least 13 more Jewish Community Centers and to the Anti-Defamation League , bringing the number to ... what, 80, 90, 100 such threats since the beginning of the year? It's hard to track the figures. They aren't exactly accurate.
I know for a fact that Huffington Post's interactive map, updated Monday, is wrong. The map lists but a single bomb threat made against the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center of Dallas on Jan. 18. But, in fact, there have been two; the most recent came last week, and, till now, has gone largely unnoticed.
Sunday night, about two bourbons into the Oscars broadcast, I opened my email and found a note that had gone to all JCC members from Artie Allen, its chief executive officer. Allen wrote that on Friday, local authorities called JCC officials to let them know that "based on their investigation ... we should have received a bomb threat email earlier in the week." Which was news to the folks at the J off Northaven Road in North Dallas. There had been no phone calls, no emails, no nothing. Business as usual.
But, Allen wrote, "after going through our system, in fact, we found the email had hit our spam filter." That's right: The terroristic threat wound up in the junk folder alongside erection-pill ads, pleas from Nigerian princes who need fast cash and Nextdoor notifications. It's almost funny. Almost. Sounded funnier Sunday night, at least, when read through the bottom of the whiskey glass that now keeps me company.
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