RantCrush Top 5: January 10, 2017

Several Jewish community centers in different states received bomb threats yesterday. One of them was Kaplen JCC in New Jersey. “The police have completed a thorough sweep of the JCC and have deemed the threat not credible and the building safe,” the center said on its Facebook page around 2 p.m. Other centers in Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee were also threatened.

Coordinated bomb threats at Jewish Community Center PRESCHOOLS throughout the country today. Why aren’t we talking about this?

— Maria Mora (@MariaMelee) January 9, 2017

By Monday evening, police had not yet commented on how the threats were received and whether they were linked. But Jerry Silverman from the Jewish Federations of North America said that he has seen a recent trend of anti-Semitism and normalizing hate speech toward Jews.

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.