Melanie Harris was sentenced to 32 months in prison for bombarding the former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and antisemitic messages.
A Riverside woman who bombarded the former executive director of Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and threatening voicemails — the first coming just months after the deadliest antisemitic attack on U.S. soil — has been sentenced to almost three years in prison, according to court documents. Melanie Harris, 59, hurled antisemitic slurs, vowed violence, including beheadings, and used “vile and inflammatory language,” according to a Miami-based FBI agent.
An analysis presented in court demonstrated that Harris attempted 190 calls between October 2022 and February 2023, including 129 in November. Many of those calls, however, were unanswered or immediately hung up on, according to court documents. All calls to Victim No. 1 were made from Harris’ Riverside home, authorities said. Harris left 15 voicemails for Victim No. 1 on Oct. 3, 2022, including four threatening and antisemitic messages.
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