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Already this year, 53 Jewish community centers around the country have received bomb threats — including Nashville’s and 10 others on Monday.

“We’ve seen four waves of these threats — we’ve never seen that before,” David Posner of the JCC Association of North America told The New York Times.

In 2016 only one Jewish community center in the country reported a bomb threat.

Monday, the American Jewish Committee called on President Trump “to condemn what has often been called ‘the oldest hatred’ — anti-Semitism — and unleash the power of government to match deeds with words.

Tuesday, Trump — whose daughter, Ivanka, is a Jewish convert — issued a statement strongly condemning the “the anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community.”

The FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are investigating “possible civil rights violations in connection with threats.”

“Anyone who would seek to divide us through an act of desecration will find instead that they unite us in shared determination,” Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said Tuesday.

Greitens, a former Navy SEAL who grew up in St. Louis, is Jewish.

Any act of anti-Semitism dishonors and disturbs the entire Jewish community. It also dishonors and disturbs all people of faith.

Interfaith groups held a candlelight vigil at the cemetery Tuesday night, and volunteers helped clean it up Wednesday.

Two Muslim-American activists started a fundraiser to help pay for repairs. By Wednesday afternoon, their LaunchGood site had raised more than $80,000.

“We are all the descendants of Abraham,” Tarek El-Messidi, who is from Knoxville, wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon.

By late Wednesday afternoon, nearly all of the toppled headstones were restored. Only about 10 were broken.

Phil Weiss, owner of Rosenbloom Monument in St. Louis, told the Associated Press that most of the headstones were made of granite.

“Granite is pretty tough,” Weiss said.

As are all of Abraham’s descendants.