Community’s security arm joins White House confab on emergency plans
The national Jewish community's security arm took part in
a White House conference on creating a model emergency plan for schools and
houses of worship.
Paul Goldenberg, the national director of the Secure
Community Network, which is affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North
America and the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations,
joined law-enforcement, education and faith leaders on Feb. 27 at a White House
event called "Taking Action: Creating Model Emergency Management Plans for
Schools, Institutions of Higher Education, and Houses of Worship."
The event, derived from a series of executive orders
issued by President Obama in the wake of the massacre of school children in
Connecticut in December, included addresses by Arne Duncan, the education
secretary, and Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, as well as a
top FBI official.
Also attending were survivors of gun violence.
"What I emphasized is that the Jewish community was
compelled to engage because over the last decade we've seen an unprecedented
number of planned attacks against Jewish communities here in the United
States," Goldenberg told JTA.
Goldenberg, who is a vice chairman of the Department of
Homeland Security’s Faith-Based Homeland Security Committee, said the Jewish
community's model was now being emulated by other faith communities.
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