The Riverdale Bombers: Should we worry?
The arrest last Wednesday of four would-be terrorists at the scene of an attempted synagogue bombing in Riverdale shook some communal nerves. Briefly, the as-yet unrealized nightmare of a full-fledged American synagogue bombing seemed real, and the countermeasures employed by major New York synagogues seemed insubstantial. The story changed quickly, however. The bombs that the…