Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Menacing voicemails left at Jewish community centers in University Heights, Mayfield Heights
Detectives in University Heights and Mayfield Heights are investigating harassing voicemails left at two local Jewish community centers.
The voicemails were left Friday afternoon at the Heights Jewish Center Synagogue in University Heights and Temple Israel Ner Tamid in Mayfield Heights, police said.
No arrests have been made, but investigators believe the incidents are related, Mayfield Heights Capt. Doug Suydam said Wednesday morning.
Two phone messages left at the HJCS were "disturbing and anti-Semitic," Rabbi Raphael Davidovich and President Rob Altshuler said in a statement.
"The appropriate authorities and community partners have been made aware of what happened," Davidovich and Altshuler said in the statement. "Proper follow-up steps are being pursued."
Temple Israel did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday morning.
Investigators did not disclose the content of the voicemails, but Suydam described them as harassing and threatening.
A University Heights police spokesman was not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning.
Last year, the Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood was the target of two non-credible bomb threats. The center adopted new security protocols in response to those threats.
The threats were among more than 100 threats to Jewish Community Centers that occurred over several weeks. Federal officials accused a 31-year-old man of making at least eight of the threats to harass his ex-girlfriend. The Mandel JCC was not listed in the federal complaint against the man.
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