Jewish synagogues to receive HS funding

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 08 2009 @ 05:34 PM BST

The Jewish Secure Community Network in the USA working with Dept. of Homeland Security - This is a Mossad Organization
By: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 21.06.2008 [21:44 ] (2164 reads)

this will likely be a conduit for Mossad Activity in the USA in the event of Bush Driven Martial Law

SCN (Secure Community Network) is part of the Jewish community’s response to heightened security concerns in the United States. Working in cooperation with major American Jewish organizations, SCN has two main functions: (1) rapid information sharing in crisis situations and (2) enhancing security at Jewish organizations and institutions to protect against terrorism and other threats.

Through SCAN, the organized Jewish community has established a coordinated approach to critical safety and security needs, including expeditious, proactive planning and establishing common standards for improving security at the national and local levels. SCN professionals offer expertise, guidance and assistance to Jewish organizations and institutions about protection against terrorism and other threats.

SCN maintains close working relationships with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, intelligence and counter-terrorism units, and others who provide advice on security and safety matters. SCN also maintains contact with major Jewish communities worldwide to share information and experience and to maximize resources.

Visit the SCN website at www.scnus.org for Alerts and Warnings, Government and Counterterrorism Website Links, Institutional Safety and Security Library, School Safety, Travel Safety, Homeland Security Funds Grant Information, Best Practice Archive, and Model Security Policies and Procedures.

http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/content.asp?id=29

SCN Center Welcome Message

Welcome to the Secure Community Network (SCN) website. Working together for more than two years, member agencies of the Jewish community, security experts and law enforcement officials have established the Secure Community Network as a primary vehicle to facilitate sharing of information and policy protocols concerning Jewish communal security...

Why SCN?

SCN (Secure Community Network) is part of the Jewish community’s response to heightened security concerns in the United States. Through SCN, the organized Jewish community is coordinating and addressing critical safety and security needs in addition to establishing national standards for improving security at the local level.

For SCN membership, your organization should be affiliated with the Conference of Presidents. Click here to learn more about SCN, or register to become a SCN member now.
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Table Top Exercises: Testing Your Emergency Plans

Many agencies, institutions and organizations have invested heavily in security planning, all-hazards preparedness, and business continuity planning. However, such plans are not complete until they are tested. Expert consensus indicates that the best way to prepare for the worst is by simulating and practicing what the plans call for - which is why the use of table top exercises is on the rise. A table top exercise is a facilitated activity that places participants in a simulated situation requiring them to function in the capacity required for responding to a real-world event. Table top exercises are scenario-based simulations and provide a non-threatening way to work through and discuss all of the considerations of managing an incident. Tabletops raise the level of awareness as to the actual state of preparedness without the cost and disruption of a full scale live exercise while empowering all participants to become informed, active contributors to the safety, security, and resiliency of their organization. To access more information on table top exercises, view the attached presentation or download the informational article.

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School Safety and Security

Tragic school shootings in which multiple students or faculty have been killed or injured in a single event, as well as terrorist threats to homeland security, have heightened the need for crisis and emergency preparedness. Emergency preparedness is an important responsibility shared by all individuals as well as communities, including schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings recently joined DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez in a press conference where Secretary Spellings announced the availability of new brochures that provide guidance on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to enable schools to better balance students’ privacy rights with school safety concerns. In conjunction with this release, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a wide-range of emergency preparedness resources to help schools create safe and secure environments for their students. The FERPA brochures and additional resources available through DHS and other sources are accessible on the School Security section of the site.

CDC Releases New Community Guidelines for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the Federal Government, released new guidance on community planning strategies that state and local community decision-makers, as well as individuals, need to consider based on the severity of an influenza pandemic. These strategies are important because the best protection against pandemic influenza — a vaccine — is not likely to be available at the outset of a pandemic. Planning now for a severe pandemic will help assure that your organization is prepared to implement these community recommendations. The “Pandemic Influenza Community Mitigation Interim Planning Guide for Faith-Based and Community Organizations”, has been developed specifically to assist Faith-Based and Community Organizations with pre-pandemic planning and can be accessed by clicking here. The complete guidelines can be accessed by clicking here. Additional resources designed by the US Department of Health and Human Services can be accessed here that will provide information about pandemic flu, ready-to-use and ready-to-tailor resources prepared by HHS and CDC, as well as ideas and materials to encourage your organization and leaders to prepare and get involved.

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. To find out more about CERT training in your area, please go to the State Directory page of the CERT website.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 08 2009 @ 05:37 PM BST

This is an important .pdf to read over folks. It looks like the phrase "Homeland Security" was popular in Israel long before 9/11. Homeland Security refers first to Israel's and then to everything else.

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Comparative US and Israeli Homeland Security

Jeffrey A. Larsen
Tasha L. Pravecek
The Counterproliferation Papers
Future Warfare Series No. 34
USAF Counterproliferation Center

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc ... tTRDoc.pdf


June 2006
The Counterproliferation Papers Series was established by the USAF
Counterproliferation Center to provide information and analysis to assist
the understanding of the U.S. national security policy-makers and USAF
officers to help them better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of
mass destruction. Copies of No. 34 and previous papers in this series are
available from the USAF Counterproliferation Center, 325 Chennault
Circle, Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6427. The fax number is (334) 953-
7530; phone (334) 953-7538.
Counterproliferation Paper No. 34
USAF Counterproliferation Center
Air University
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 36112-6427
The Internet address for the USAF Counterproliferation Center is:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-cps.htm



Responding to the Threat: Comparative Organizational Structures
The global events of the past two decades have shaped the security
strategies found in U.S. and Israel homeland security programs. Israel
undertook significant organizational changes in response to the SCUD
missile attacks of the 1991 Gulf War. The United States progressively
began to reshape its national homeland security strategy in response to
terror attacks after the bombings at the World Trade Center (1993),
Khobar Towers (1996), the U.S. Embassies in East Africa (1998), and the
USS Cole (2000). However, it did not adopt truly sweeping policy
changes until the devastating September 11, 2001, attacks.
The United States and Israel have developed organizations designed
to protect their respective homelands from attack and to aid recovery after
an incident occurs. In the United States, the primary agencies addressed
are the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Northern Command.
In Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces and Home Front Command serve
complementary roles in protecting their homeland.
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Analysis: Observations from Israeli Experience
The research and field interviews conducted have led the authors to
identify several lessons of Israeli experience. Those highlighted include
the following:
• Know Your Adversary—Local knowledge enables an in-depth
understanding of one’s neighbors and potential adversaries. This
knowledge allows the Israeli intelligence and security apparatuses
to prepare appropriately and pre-position its defensive forces
accordingly to minimize such threats. When a state knows its
adversary it can tailor its strategy to maximize its chances of
dissuading, deterring, or defeating the threat.
• Interagency Cooperation—Israeli practices that the United States
may wish to copy include realistic practices, drills, and scenarios,
minimizing compartmentalization of information, and developing a
process that ensures all organizations talk to one another more
regularly. Israel has achieved a coordinated network-centric
intelligence effort.
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• Tight Internal Security—All public buildings, including
shopping malls and bus and train stations, have armed guards and
metal detectors at their gates. Israel feels like a police state to
foreign visitors, one in which security concerns are omnipresent.
This internal security provides a deterrence measure not seen in the
United States.
• Profiling—Israel admits that it uses profiling of individuals in its
efforts to uncover terrorists. Security personnel look at a number
of indicators to determine whether a person is perceived to be a
threat, including a color-coded license plate system that
differentiates between Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians.
• Protected Spaces—Every new home and public building in Israel
is required to have a protected space—a room built of reinforced
concrete with blast door and window that is designed to provide
overpressure protection against bombs and chemical or biological
weapons attack.
• Barriers—Israel uses physical barriers to prevent illegal infiltration.
This can be accomplished by walls or fences, making liberal use of
sensors.
• Information Sharing Between the Two States—Ties between the
United States and Israel should be close to maximize cooperative
ventures and allow each country to benefit from the lessons of the
other in the fight against terrorism and ensuring homeland security.
• Public Education—Israel has undertaken major measures to
explain realistic threats, provide clear information in the form of
civil defense booklets and warning sirens, and distribute personal
protection kits to its population.
• Offensive Military Action—Israel has proven its willingness to
pursue offensive actions whenever necessary, relying on preemptive
acts, preventive wars, and targeted assassinations to dissuade or
deter an adversary from attacking its homeland.
• Security Decision-Making—Israel’s national security establishment
is much smaller than that in the United States, making it easier for a
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small group of senior leaders to make consensual decisions more
efficiently and quickly.
• Compromise and Appeasement—Israel has attempted to ensure
the harmonious coexistence of an Israeli state in an Arabdominated
land to ensure its homeland security.
• Advanced Technology—Modern technologies, especially sensors,
are extensively used in Israel, particularly in border control and
noninvasive surveillance methods.
Despite the benefits that may accrue from adopting some of these
lessons, the United States is unlikely to adopt many of them. Differences
in country size, culture, attitudes toward security, historical experiences,
and bureaucratic design contribute to the propensity of the United States to
continue developing a homeland security strategy with the least impact on
individual civil liberties and its population’s accustomed way of life.
Conclusion
The United States and the entire international community can learn
much from Israel’s efforts in the homeland security arena. Coordinated
teamwork between government agencies, the military, and emergency
responders is imperative. Peacetime training with all emergency response
entities goes a long way towards smoother operations during actual
incidents.
Israel does an excellent job of teaching its civilian population how to
be self sufficient in the event of an incident. The brochure distributed by
the Home Front Command is very explicit in its content, providing a stepby-
step format to follow in the event of an incident. Hopefully, the
preparedness function of the United States National Incident Management
System will be influential in ensuring a means for educating the general
public regarding appropriate actions in the event of an incident.
The Israeli people live in a perpetual state of concern due to the
constant threat of terrorism. If such a situation becomes the norm in
American or other Western states, then U.S. counterterrorism policy has
failed. The United States may benefit from lessons learned through hard
experience by our Israeli

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