Jewish organizational leaders discussed their alert system for Jewish organizations and religious sites with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Ridge praised the community’s pilot program, the Secure Community Alert Network, and discussed the community’s security needs, those involved in the meeting said. Ridge suggested that the Jewish community’s plan for alerting members about a terrorist attack could be a model for other ethnic minorities.
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