Posts Tagged: Jewish Community Center
Albany Jewish Center Evacuated After Unfounded Bomb Threat
An Albany Jewish community center was briefly shut down and evacuated Monday, following an emailed bomb threat later determined to unfounded. Albany JCC CEO David Posner...
Kansas City Royals Team Up With Jewish Site of 2014 Deadly Shooting for Youth Baseball Camp
For the seventh year running, Kansas City Royals have partnered with the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park for a three-day youth baseball camp. A total...
JCC in Fairfax, Va., Vandalized With 19 Painted Swastikas
JNS.org - A Jewish Community Center in Fairfax, Va., was vandalized with 19 spray-painted swastikas early Saturday morning. Building staff noticed the building had been vandalized when...
Facial Recognition Technology May Become Jewish Institutions’ First Line of Defense
JNS.org - At around 1 p.m. on a cloudy day in April 2014, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74, pulled into the rear parking lot of the...
Arizona Man Planned to Attack JCC
JNS.org - A man from Tucson, Ariz., who is charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicles office in Phoenix revealed to an undercover...
Florida Police Investigate Bomb Threat Directed at Jewish Community Center
Police in the city of Maitland, Florida are investigating a bomb threat directed at a local Jewish community center, Florida's Fox 35 reported on Tuesday. Police said a call...
Man Found Dead in Parking Lot of Staten Island Jewish Center
Police said a man was found dead in the parking lot of a Staten Island Jewish center early Monday morning, NBC reported. The 60-year-old had a white...
Does Working Out With Other Jews Keep You Jewish?
JNS.org - For Daphna Krupp, her daily workout (excluding Shabbat) at the Jewish Community Center (JCC or "J") of Greater Baltimore has become somewhat...
Anti-Semitic Materials Found in Kansas Gunman’s Home
JNS.org - Anti-Semitic materials and information on the local Jewish community was found inside the home of Frazier Glenn Miller, the man charged with carrying...
Kansas Jewish Community Center to Host ‘Interfaith Service of Unity and Hope’
The Overland Park, Kansas, Jewish Community Center on Thursday will host an 'Interfaith Service of Unity and Hope' to remember the victims of Sunday's suspected...
ADL: Kansas Shootings Suspect Has Long History of Anti-Semitism, Racism
JNS.org - A new report issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says that the gunman suspected to be involved in the Kansas City-area Jewish...
Following Kansas Killings, de Blasio Says NYPD Taking Steps to Ensure Safety of Jewish Individuals
Following shootings at Kansas Jewish institutions earlier Sunday that left three dead, New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio said the New York Police department...
Theater J Won’t Produce Play Accused of Being Anti-Israel, Will Still Present it as Workshop
JNS.org - The Washington DC Jewish Community Center's (DCJCC) Theater J troupe will not produce Israeli playwright Motti Lerner's "The Admission" following concerns that...
Manhattan Jewish Community Center Official Advocates Boycott of Israel (UPDATE)
In a blog post published Thursday, an official at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan wrote that "the importance of the use of boycott"...
