At least 18 Jewish Community Centers across the country received anonymous bomb threats on Sunday, forcing one in Albany to evacuate more than 100 people.

The first targeted threats were reported around 11am at The Albany Jewish Center in New York state after , and officers in Albany, with the help of the New York Police Department, quickly rushed to the scene with three K9s.

The center had more than 100 people inside, including children. They were safely evacuated as officers searched the premises.

The emailed threat was ultimately determined a hoax and the situation was declared safe.

Around 100 people were evacuated from The Albany Jewish Center in New York (pictured) after an anonymous bomb threat was email to them and 17 other centers

Each of the nearly 20 threats were emailed to members of Jewish Community Centers, but it's unclear if the specific recipients were the desired target.

Officials did not disclose the full list of threatened Jewish Community Centers.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the center after the threat and publicly condemned what he described as anti-Semitic attacks by saying 'hate is spreading.'

Cuomo said: 'These types of situations are so ugly and so unfortunate. What's worse is we're seeing more and more of them.'

'We've had about 42 incidents of anti-Semitism in this state this past couple of months so it's not getting better. It's only getting worse.'

Cuomo (center): 'We've had about 42 incidents of anti-Semitism in this state this past couple of months so it's not getting better. It's only getting worse'

'There is a contagion of hate all across this country.'

The center is scheduled to reopen Monday and an investigation into the threats is ongoing.

In New York, hate crimes against Jews saw a new high in 2019 with 234 anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the NYPD. This is a staggering 26 percent increase from the previous year.

In December, several Jews reported being physically assaulted in Brooklyn on multiple, separate occasions and that same month a couple killed four innocent victims in a massacre in Jersey City.

David Anderson, 47, and his lover Francine Graham, 50, parked a van across the street from JC Kosher Supermarket and a yeshiva before opening fire inside the store.

At the time, there were around 50 children inside the yeshiva.

Officers would later reveal that the anti-Semitic couple brought an AR-15 style rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, a 9 mm Ruger, 9 mm Glock, a .22 which had a homemade silencer attached to it, a pipe bomb and additional ammunition to the scene

In January, disturbing footage emerged of an Orthodox Jewish man being assaulted by a group of seven teenagers as he walked down a street in Brooklyn.

Startled, the man attempts to walk away from the group at speed but is chased by two of the teenagers, who run toward him and then take it in turns to punch him.

Meanwhile, a third member of the group can be seen picking up the folding chair from the ground and running back toward the victim, jumping up into the air and throwing the chair at him once again.

The man can be seen attempting to avoid their path, but as he begins to walk past them one of the teens throws a folding camping chair at his head, knocking him off balance

The group of teens then sprint away into in the opposite direction, venturing deeper into the Crown Heights area.

The same group of teenagers were also recorded on surveillance camera carrying out a second brutal attack on a 56-year-old Jewish man on Union Street moments later.

On this occasion, the victim was punched in the back of the head by one member of the group and then thrown to the ground.

Others group members were seen taking out their cell phones and recording the incident. Surveillance video also showed the teenagers laughing and cheering as the attack took place.

As the teens began fleeing down Union Street towards Albany Avenue, volunteers from the Crown Heights Shomrim gave chase to the group as they made their way down Albany to President Street.

A 911 call was made, but in the few minutes it took for the police to arrive, the group made their way across Eastern Parkway and then split up into the Albany Avenue projects.

A police report was filed over the incident, and the case has been referred to the Hate Crimes Task Force

On Capitol Hill, Attorney General William Barr said last month that the Department of Justice will get more involved in fighting anti-Semitic attacks as similar crimes have rose across the country.

Barr said: 'I'm extremely distressed by the upsurge in violence, hate crimes committed against the Jewish community.'