Amid the recent wave of terror attacks and threats, Agudath Israel has asked the Jewish community to contact their congressional representatives and urge them to increase funding for security.
“The Jewish community has a particular stake in this issue as it is no secret that we are a vulnerable and high-risk target,” the organization said in a press release.
In particular, the Agudah is now focusing on the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), which funds security equipment — such as cameras, concrete barriers and reinforced doors — for non-profit institutions, in certain cities, that are at high risk of terrorist attacks.
Over the past years, Jewish institutions such as shuls and yeshivos have been among the program’s beneficiaries. For the 2016 fiscal year, the Agudah successfully worked to increase the Senate appropriation to $25 million. “Now, on the House side, we are encouraging support for a bi-partisan letter, circulated by Representatives Peter King (R-NY) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), urging members to match the Senate appropriation,” said the Agudah in the release.
“Given the increasing terrorist threat, the current funding level of $13 million for NSGP is simply not enough to adequately secure American institutions,” said the Agudah. “The increase will help provide more security to more institutions in more communities — enhanced protection that our nation urgently needs.”
If anyone reading this comment is sincerely interested in understanding Muslims and why they hate Israel and hate America, then I emphatically recommend this book:
ReplyDeleteThey Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It by Brigitte Gabriel, year 2008, year 2010, St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages ISBN 0312571283, ISBN 9780312571283.
Every page of this book is worth reading – twice — and this book contains dozens of paragraphs that are worthy of being quoted verbatim.
If you cannot get your hands on this book, the at least do yourself the favor of checking out Brigitte Gabriel’s web sites:
www.actforamerica.org
www.actforamericaeducation.com
Last but not least, Brigitte Gabriel’s books and web sites reveal critical facts about Islam and Muslims and Israel that the Leftist-dominated news media DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW, because the Leftists are the loyal allies of the Muslims and the Arabs.
PS: http://www.camera.org * http://www.HonestReporting.com * http://www.memri.org * http://www.ActForAmerica.org * http://www.IsraelLawCenter.org