
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 10, 1993                   TAG: 9312100181
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: FAIRFAX                                LENGTH: Short

HANUKKAH GATHERING THREATENED WITH BOMB

A bomb threat interrupted a Hanukkah gathering at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, the second anti-Semitic incident at the center in a week.

More than 1,000 people attended Wednesday night's meeting, held on the first night of Hanukkah, to show community support against last week's spraying of anti-Semitic graffiti outside the Fairfax County building.

A half-hour into the service, Jeff Karatz, executive director of the center, announced that the center had received a bomb threat.

The group left the center and continued the gathering on a hillside.

Last week's graffiti caught the attention of President Clinton, who sent a letter calling the vandalism "`an affront to all Americans."

- Associated Press

by CNB