This week, Kansas City grieves.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim—a Prairie Village native, Shawnee Mission East graduate, and staff member at the Israeli Embassy in Washington—was gunned down alongside her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, just steps from the Capital Jewish Museum. They were young, in love, and on the verge of engagement. Now, they are names added to the growing list of victims of modern antisemitism.
Her father, Robert Milgrim, said what no father should ever have to say: “The more I read, the more I thought, ‘It could be Sarah.’”
Sarah represented so many of our daughters—ambitious, bright, full of promise. But she also represented something else: a Jewish woman living boldly in a time when Jewish identity has once again become dangerous.
This was not a random act of violence. It was a targeted act of hate.
We invite you to read the Kansas City Star’s heartbreaking story here, and then ask yourself: What can I do to stand against the hatred that took Sarah’s life?
Let’s not look away.
Let’s not be silent.
Let’s be Esthers—for such a time as this.
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