Police investigating after more than a dozen Jewish community centers targeted with bomb threat

Authorities are investigating after roughly 18 Jewish community centers around the country received bomb threats via email.

The Albany Jewish Community Center in New York closed earlySunday following the threat and was evacuated as police, who were notified around 11:05 a.m. EST, swept through the building, found nothing amiss, and cleared the scene.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the threat, which was also emailed to several other Jewish centers nationwide, is under investigation and expressed his support for Jewish residents in his state.

"You have your children in a class in the building and they say there is a bomb threat — that is terror," Cuomo said. "And that is what they are trying to do, they are trying to create that terror.

"We can't let them," he continued. "For the Jewish community in the Capital District, this was a terrible, unfortunate incident, but it in no way reflects how people feel about the Jewish community in the Capital District or in this state."

The incident comes after New York has experienced an uptick in anti-Semitic crime recently, including a Hanukkah machete attack that left five Orthodox Jews wounded last year. Over the last few months, around 42 separate incidents of anti-Semitism were investigated in the state.

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