American Jews Confront a Wave of Bomb Threats
Jewish Community Centers around the country have been bombarded by menacing phone calls. For the most part, people are sad, not scared.
Updated February 21 at 10:58 pm EST
The Nashville Jewish Community Center has now gotten so many telephone bomb threats that the dates run together, said Leslie Sax, the executive director. The first call came on January 9, when Nashville was one of the first 15 JCCs to get threats. The next call was January 18, accompanying yet another national wave. The latest was just this weekend, on Presidents’ Day, when 11 JCCs around the country were threatened, according to a spokesperson for the national organization. The Nashville facility, more full than usual with people exercising on the holiday weekend, was
