Owings Mills JCC, Jewish Day Schools Targets Of Bomb Threat

The Jewish Community Center in Owings Mills became the latest Jewish institution to receive a bomb threat in a rash of anti-Semitic incidents across the country.

Baltimore County police said the bomb threat was called into the JCC, located in the 3500 block of Gwynnbrook Avenue, at about 10 a.m. Police responded to the scene at 10:10 a.m. and the scene was cleared by 11:07 a.m.

JCC CEO Barak Hermann confirmed the threat with a statement posted on the organization’s website. Hermann said the threat was called into the front desk.

The Owings Mills facility was one of multiple JCCs and Jewish day schools on the East Coast that received threats on Monday, including the Aleph Bet Jewish Day School in Annapolis and the Charles E Smith Jewish Day School's upper school campus in Rockville.

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