A federal judge in Boston on Thursday sentenced John Reardon, a 60-year-old former resident of Millis, Massachusetts, to 26 months in prison for a series of antisemitic threats against two synagogues and the Israeli consulate in Boston. Reardon pleaded guilty last November to obstruction of the free exercise of religion, making interstate threats and interstate stalking after authorities said he placed dozens of violent calls and voicemails beginning on Oct. 7 2023, the day Israel and Hamas went to war. Prosecutors said Reardon threatened to bomb houses of worship in Attleboro and Sharon, vowed to kill Jewish children and telephoned the Israeli consulate 98 times, at one point telling staff it was “time to prepare the furnaces again.” The Israeli mission increased security and some congregants have not returned to their synagogues, according to court filings. Prosecutors asked for a 30-month sentence, arguing the crimes inflicted lasting trauma; Reardon’s public defender sought nine months, citing untreated mental illness. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick imposed a sentence slightly below the government’s request and ordered three years of supervised release. The FBI’s Boston Division led the investigation. Reardon still faces state charges stemming from an unrelated threat to blow up a storage facility in Upton, Massachusetts.