2 Israeli embassy staff shot dead in DC
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As Milgrim tried to crawl away in a desperate bid to survive, Rodriguez chased her and shot her again, as detailed in the charging documents.
A couple working at Israel’s embassy in Washington D.C, who were killed by a gunman, were about to become engaged.Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were attacked late on Wednesday night while leaving an event at a Jewish museum,
People gathered in Wichita, Kansas on Thursday to pay homage to Sarah Milgrim, a Jewish woman killed in Washington D.C. on Wednesday as she was from Overland Park in Kansas. (AP Video: Nick Ingram)
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The Forward on MSNSarah Milgrim was ‘very Jewishly involved’ in Chabad, Hillel, Birthright, Israel before shooting outside Capital Jewish MuseumSarah Milgrim, killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday with her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, was very involved in Jewish life.
Both victims were embassy employees, who were about to get engaged; couple worked and advocated for Israeli-Arab coexistence
Milgrim, then a 17-year-old senior, voiced her concerns about the sickening messages and symbols — which included a swastika — that were painted on a storage shed on the campus of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan., in February 2017.
The terror suspect accused of killing two Israeli embassy staff flaunted his support for Hamas online and attended Black Lives Matter protests.
Two young Israeli diplomats, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, were tragically shot in Washington, D.C., in an act of antisemitic violence, prompting a community vigil in Davis, California, and a call for solidarity and vigilance.
The area's Jewish community is in mourning after a gunman killed a 26-year-old woman from Johnson County in a likely hate crime in Washington D.C.
In the suburbs of Kansas City, there is a long established Jewish community that is active beyond its modest numbers. The rabbis of the different synagogues all know each other, and families are often members of more than one congregation.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim of Johnson County and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, were on the eve of being engaged when they were killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.