This past Friday afternoon, YWN�posted a call for calm following frightening text messages being forwarded around the Jewish community in NY.�
The following was written on Friday: "YWN has reached out to high-ranking members of the NYPD, and have stated that although they received the same text message, "there are no credible threats to be concerned about - and don�t even know where this text message originated from?. [See Fridays post by clicking HERE]
Regardless of what we had written to calm the public, since Friday we have received hundreds of emails from nervous New Yorkers.
To further calm people, the following appeared in the NY Daily News on Wednesday:
A chilling terror warning spreading across the U.S. and Israel is a hoax, NYPD officials said Tuesday.
The threat, which has popped up on forwarded e-mails and blog posts across the world, warns of an attack in New York today. It says the warning originated with a Muslim cab driver who told a Jewish woman he picked up of a Jan. 7 plot.
"There is no terror plot or threat connected to the rumor that is circulating in New York and in other cities abroad," said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.
"There are several variations on the rumor, but it is just that, the latest urban myth."
City Hall and the NYPD were alerted to the viral message days ago, officials said.
Synagogues across the city have added extra security because of the conflict in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Web site of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center in Brooklyn was hacked by a man calling himself "EL_MuHAMMeD FOR PALESTINE."
Pictures of hooded men launching missiles appeared on the center's site.
(Dov Gordon - NYC)
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=28464
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