Israeli ambassador meets with family of DC shooting victim

It could have been us

“This is us,” wrote a former colleague upon learning of the targeted killing of Israeli embassy staffers Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. And indeed — it could have been us. The photos splashed across international media are hauntingly familiar: two bright-eyed 20-somethings, dressed in navy suits and diplomatic pins — symbols of state, now positioned almost-permanently near yellow hostage ribbons. Margaux Chetrit is a writer, speaker and ent…

After deadly shooting, Jewish organizations are again scrutinizing security

(RNS) — American Jewish communities are rushing to bolster already heightened security around their institutions and businesses after the May 21 killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The attack in Washington “solidifies that we cannot be lax” about security, said Avram Klein, general manager of Seasons, a popular kosher supermarket in Queens, New York. “When you go food shopping you should…

VP Vance Visits Israeli Embassy, Honors Victims of DC Shooting

WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Monday to pay his respects following the fatal shooting of staffers Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside an American Jewish Committee event last week. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter […]

Oh, the Hypocrisy: Leftist Leaders Condemn the D.C. Jewish Museum Murders

GOP Rep Demands Probe Into Group Tied To Alleged Pro-Palestinian Killer

Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri demanded an investigation Tuesday into a fringe political organization to which the alleged perpetrator of a shooting that killed two outside the Capital Jewish Museum belonged. Federal authorities charged Elias Rodriguez with two counts of first-degree murder, murder of foreign officials, causing death from use of a firearm and discharging a […] GOP Rep Demands Probe Into Group Tied To Alleged Pro-Palesti…

Cal Thomas: Have to be taught to hate

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” — “You wonder how these things begin.” That song speaks to the love between a boy and a girl. Applied to the Washington shootin…