A note threatening Jewish students at a New Jersey high school helped lead to the recent arrests of several teen-agers. “A bomb is in the school to kill Jews,” read the note found at Shawnee High School in Medford, N.J. The arrests came as high school officials increased their vigilance of such acts in the wake of last month’s Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
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