Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, March 8, 2017.
Chicago Jewish Day School evacuated due to bomb threat
The Chicago Jewish Day School in Edgewater was evacuated Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was called in. Police and bomb-sniffing dogs searched the school and nothing was found. The school was one of the at least 12 Jewish days schools and community centers to receive a bomb threat Tuesday. Anti-Semitic threats have sadly become a common occurrence across the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president. “We are, of course concerned about the anti-Semitism behind today’s threat, which coincides with a recent surge in bomb threats around the country,” the senior rabbi of the Emanuel Congregation, Craig Marantz, told the Tribune. [Tribune]
