Staten Island, NY - Bomb Threats At Jewish Center With Start Of Purim Holiday

New Springville, Staten Island, NY - Anti-Semitic hatred may have been at the root of two bomb threats directed at a Jewish family counseling and social work center, with the start of Purim holiday, late yesterday.

Police evacuated the Richmond Avenue office of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, as well as a handful of adjoining stores and businesses, after the center received a note implying the building would blow up.
The Jewish Board received a similar note on Friday, police said, and also someone found a swastika written in crayon outside the center's men's room.

The NYPD's Hate Crimes Unit was investigating the threats, and detectives were questioning two people at the 122nd Precinct's Mid-Island stationhouse.