UPDATE: Two JCCs In Hudson Valley Receive Bomb Threats Monday

Shortly before Monday, the Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester was evacuated because of a bomb threat.

Police said they responded to the scene at 999 Wilmot Rd. in New Rochelle around 11 a.m., lohud.com said.

This was the second JCC in the Hudson Valley to receive a bomb threat Monday.

The Jewish Community Center on the Hudson was evacuated earlier Monday morning because of a bomb threat.

Tarrytown police confirmed to lohud.com that a threat had been made and police were called to the facility on South Broadway at 9:13 a.m.

Rep. Nita M. Lowey, a Democrat from Harrison, said her office has been in contact with local police and the FBI to offer support to the ongoing investigation in response to the Tarrytown threat and “to bring the criminals responsible for this horrifying act of terrorism to justice."

“We will not allow hatred, bigotry or anti-Semitic violence to terrorize our families or our community,” Lowey said in a prepared statement.

This is the latest in a series of recent bomb threat around the nation and in New York.

Two Buffalo Jewish community centers received bomb threats on Presidents Day.

JCCS in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Birmingham, Alabama; Cleveland; Chicago; Houston; Milwaukee; Nashville; St. Paul; and Tampa, Florida, also received threats.

The JCC Association of North American said the Presidents Day threats were the fourth wave since the beginning of the year.

According to news reports, the incidents in Tarrytown and New Rochelle were part of a fifth wave of bomb threats.

Several states, including Florida, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan, were targeted Monday.

The lohud.com article can be accessed here.

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