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    1. Security Executives

    Community Security Service announces a 'Memorandum of Understanding' with the Secure Community Network

    May 3, 2022
    The MoU recognizes CSS as the volunteer security partner of SCN and calls on both organizations to promote each other’s efforts
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    Courtesy of The Community Security Service (CSS).
    Trained security volunteers from The Community Security Service (CSS) outside of a synagogue. The organization trains volunteers in basic security procedures to help protect their institutions and events across the country.
    Trained security volunteers from The Community Security Service (CSS) outside of a synagogue. The organization trains volunteers in basic security procedures to help protect their institutions and events across the country.

    New York, New York -- March 2022 -- Given the rise in antisemitism and the current threat dynamic facing our community, it is critically important that organizations within the Jewish community work cooperatively to effectively address issues of hate, antisemitism, extremism, and violence as well as threats targeting the Jewish community.

    Courtesy of The Community Security Service (CSS).
    Trained security volunteers from The Community Security Service (CSS) outside of a synagogue. The organization trains volunteers in basic security procedures to help protect their institutions and events across the country.
    Trained security volunteers from The Community Security Service (CSS) outside of a synagogue. The organization trains volunteers in basic security procedures to help protect their institutions and events across the country.
    This is why we are excited to announce that CSS and the Secure Community Network (“SCN”) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") that we believe will better serve the security needs of the Jewish community. SCN is "The official safety and security organization of the Jewish community in North America”.

    The MoU recognizes CSS as the volunteer security partner of SCN and calls on both organizations to promote each other’s efforts. It outlines the mutual expectations and roles of both parties on coordination as it relates to intelligence & information sharing, delivery of training, and engagement with law enforcement partners related to community safety and security. CSS volunteers and the communities with a CSS presence will benefit greatly from the expertise of SCN and its professionals in federations around the country.

    CSS looks forward to this important collaboration with SCN and this agreement is a necessary step to better secure the Jewish community during these times of increased antisemitism, threats, and actual violence. We believe this important MoU will help to combine our respective strengths and lead both organizations to operate at a greater capacity, with natural synergy toward our common purpose.

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    Issued in May of 2020, the 2019 ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, reported that the total number of antisemitic incidents in 2019 increased 12% over the previous year.
    Courtesy of CSS
    Evan Bernstein (L) speaking at NYC Mayor Bill Deblasio's press conference the day after Pittsburgh Tree of Life shootings
    (Tribune News Service)
    During the vigil Amazing Grace is played after a moment of silence to honor the victims. Students Demand Action, Moms Demand Action, Hudson Partnership CMO, and Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition host a candlelight vigil outside Jersey City City Hall Annex to honor and remember the victims of the recent mass shooting. Friday, December 13, 2019.