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Posted By admin on June 13, 2017

Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Lopez said University Synagogue and two campuses of Wilshire Boulevard Temple were shut down early Saturday morning. The locations reopened in the afternoon after police deemed the venues secure.

University Synagogue was closed after a staff member found an email that was beyond nastyhorrific language, and threatening in one of the congregations email accounts, said the synagogues Rabbi Morley T. Feinstein, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles reported.

Wilshire Boulevard Temple encountered a similar incident when a threat was sent through its website. While a communication like that can come in through something as innocuous as an online submission form, we take them all seriously, said Don Levy, the synagogues director of marketing and communications.

The incidents follow a wave of more than 150 bomb threats issued against Jewish institutions in early 2017, stoking fears of rising anti-Semitism. In April, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Israeli-American teenager who stands accused of initiating the threats.

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