15 synagogues in NYC area receive false bomb threats: officials
By Social Links for Amanda Woods
Published Dec. 1, 2023, 6:15 p.m. ET
Fifteen synagogues in the metro region received false bomb threats early Friday – including five houses of worship in upper Manhattan and two in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD and a Jewish security agency.
Threats were emailed to five synagogues on the Upper East and Upper West sides, as well as Hudson Heights, in Manhattan between around 5:15 and 6 a.m. warning of explosives inside the buildings, police said.
Two synagogues in Brooklyn also received the intimidating emails, said Mitch Silber, director of the Community Security Initiative, to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Jewish congregations on Long Island and in Westchester County received the disturbing missives, too, Silber said.
“There are multiple explosives inside the synagogue,” one of the threats said, according to the news agency. “These explosives will go off in a few hours and I will make history. I will make sure you all die.”
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