Nationwide Network Monitors Antisemitic Threats After Pittsburgh Shootings

The Secure Community Network, created by the Jewish Federations of North America after 9/11, has grown into the closest thing to an official security agency for American Jewish institutions. The group monitors reports of gunshots, bomb threats, and menacing antisemitic posts from around the country and alerts any one of thousands of synagogues, community centers, or day schools that appear to be at risk. The mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh led to the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to protect Jewish institutions in America, with the ultimate goal of securing “every single Jewish community” on the continent.