Two Jewish schools in the Washington region received bomb threats Monday, disrupting classroom activities and leading police to sweep the campuses in Maryland and Virginia.
The bomb threats came to both schools through what seemed to be an automated voice message system, school officials said. The incident is under police investigation.
The calls came into the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Montgomery County and Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax County after 9 a.m. Administrators at Gesher evacuated the school as police swept the building for explosives. Students on the upper campus in North Bethesda at Charles E. Smith were kept in their classrooms as part of the school’s standard procedure as administrators and police inspected the building and its perimeter.
The threats at the Washington area schools come as dozens of Jewish community centers, schools, synagogues and cemeteries have recently faced hate messages and other discriminatory acts
Jewish headstones were toppled in cemeteries in Missouri and Pennsylvania in recent weeks. This week Jewish schools in Florida have also received automated bomb threats. In all, more than 70 bomb threats have been called into Jewish institutions since January, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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The bomb threats came to both schools through what seemed to be an automated voice message system, school officials said. The incident is under police investigation.
The calls came into the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Montgomery County and Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax County after 9 a.m. Administrators at Gesher evacuated the school as police swept the building for explosives. Students on the upper campus in North Bethesda at Charles E. Smith were kept in their classrooms as part of the school’s standard procedure as administrators and police inspected the building and its perimeter.
The threats at the Washington area schools come as dozens of Jewish community centers, schools, synagogues and cemeteries have recently faced hate messages and other discriminatory acts
Jewish headstones were toppled in cemeteries in Missouri and Pennsylvania in recent weeks. This week Jewish schools in Florida have also received automated bomb threats. In all, more than 70 bomb threats have been called into Jewish institutions since January, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?utm_term=.cf8a07aa3bf6