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A friend of Capital Jewish Museum shooting victim Sarah Milgrim has paid an emotional tribute to the Jewish American employee at the Israeli Embassy in the US. Sarah was killed alongside her fiance, Yaron Lischinsky,
She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.
Yoni Kalim was at the American Jewish Committee event on Wednesday night at the Capital Jewish Museum and spent time with Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim before they were tragically gunned down.
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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.
In tributes to the pair, Lischinsky was described as a ‘clever and inspiring person’ while Milgrim was said to have an ‘unwavering belief’ in peace and equality
One of two Israeli embassy workers shot as they left an event, Sarah Milgrim worked for peace and against hate and antisemitism.
Both victims were embassy employees, who were about to get engaged; couple worked and advocated for Israeli-Arab coexistence
Incredible only begins to describe Sarah Milgrim for Sawsan Hasson. As Milgrim's boss, Hasson saw her blossom into a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy.
Last night, my friend and fellow climate activist Sarah Milgrim and her soon-to-be fiancé, Yaron Lischinsky, were murdered in cold blood by a terrorist who shouted “Free Palestine” after taking their lives. It was a horrifying, antisemitic assassination that has left those who knew and loved them reeling.
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.
Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.