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Chicago, IL - A Jordanian national charged last week with making a bomb threat against a Jewish school in December will be released on $50,000 bond, a federal judge decided today.

Mohammed Alkaramla, 24, will be released to the custody of his father and placed on electronic monitoring, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sidney Schenkier said. Alkaramla was arrested Friday at his home in the 6000 block of North Artesian Avenue and charged with mailing a threat to the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago.

Alkaramla was under investigation by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in connection with the vandalism of several synagogues and Jewish schools in the wake of Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. The charges against him do not include those incidents.