Maryland Male Arrested For Threatening Jewish Organizations By Mail.
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Clift A. Seferlis, 55, of Garrett Park, Maryland, is behind bars, charged with mailing threatening letters to Jewish Organizations across the area, including Philadelphia. Federal authorities said the threats started in 2024. Many of these letters threaten the Jewish institutions and contain references to Gaza, Israel, or events in which Jewish people were killed or otherwise attacked. The letters then suggest that the recipients might become victims of similar acts of violence.
One of these communications came from a typewritten letter, postmarked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 7, 2025. The envelope was addressed to a Jewish institution. It was sent to a specific person, using the first and last name of the employee.
It read in part: ,:”just wanted to say you are going to have to be more reliant than ever on your donors.
But at some point that money too will become less and less.
The hatred toward you all, your [institution], and especially the nation of Israel is at an all time high and is only getting worse.
Do you – deep down – reallycare [sic] – really – about what is going on in Gaza?
Will it take something happening to your beloved [institution] to make that happen.
Federal authorities said in an indictment, 34 letters and two postcards were sent.The frequency with which these letters and postcards have been mailed has been
increasing. On June 3, 2025, a Jewish institution in Washington, D.C. received a threatening
letter, which appeared to have been processed through a Philadelphia post office on May 29,
On June 6, 2025, the same institution in Washington, D.C., and another Jewish institution
in Washington, D.C. both received threatening letters, which appeared to have been processed
through a post office in Brockton, Massachusetts, on June 3, 2025.
When the FBI questioned him, Seferlis admitted to sending the letters, the FBI said in court documents.