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May 24, 2025, 1:56 AM

Liberty’s Inscription Is Ours, Too

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” —Leviticus 25:10, inscribed on the Liberty Bell On this Memorial Day weekend, as we read Parashat Behar, we find ourselves confronted by both ancient wisdom and present sorrow. This week’s...

David H. Levitt

May 24, 2025, 1:50 AM

Steps to Prevent the Next Antisemitic Attack?

After the murder of two young Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C. at the Jewish Museum, the condemnations (sincere and insincere) from domestic and foreign governments and various NGOs are rolling in, along with the obligatory statements that...

May 24, 2025, 1:46 AM

Turning pain into purpose

Former Tech2Peace peacebuilder Sarah Milgrim. Photo from Tech2Peace Team

I only met Sarah Milgrim once, but her murder this week hit close to home. We connected a little under two years ago because she was a peacebuilder. She participated in work to help Israelis and Palestinians become partners...

Benjamin G. Kelsen

May 24, 2025, 1:42 AM

Defending Our People, Upholding Our Values

Defending Our People, Upholding Our Values: Behar-Bechukosai’s Message to Our Generation Parshas Behar-Bechukosai outlines a Torah-based framework for an ethical society rooted in responsibility, compassion, and enduring values. These parshiyos are not merely legal or agricultural instructions. They represent a...

Leel David Sinai

May 23, 2025, 6:05 PM

The Language of Violence

On Wednesday, May 21, Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old American, and Yaron Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli, were brutally shot and killed outside an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at a Jewish museum in Washington, DC. According to law...

Menachem Creditor

May 23, 2025, 6:14 AM

Comfort and Resolve: In Memory of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky

When a community is in pain, our tradition teaches that we must not retreat to our private comforts, pretending all is well. The Talmud (Ta’anit 11a) teaches that anyone who distances themselves from communal suffering has forsaken their part...

May 23, 2025, 6:13 AM

The Eighth Front: DC Shooting Signals a New Phase in Israel’s Global War

The murder of two Israeli diplomats on the streets of Washington, D.C. marks a new phase in Israel's post October 7

Last night, the unthinkable happened—but it should not have been unexpected. Two Israeli diplomats—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—were executed outside a private event for Jewish young professionals at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The attacker, Elias Rodriguez,...

Jason A. Shapiro

May 23, 2025, 12:32 AM

We are Stronger When We are Together

Just hours ago, the Jewish community once again began collectively mourning the senseless murders of two beautiful souls, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. For many Jews, as heartbreaking and gut-wrenching as their deaths are, the killings were not unforeseeable...

Yeshua G. B. Tolle

May 22, 2025, 11:44 PM

The New Frontier of Hate—Peoplehood Antisemitism

Medardo Rosso, The Jewish Boy (c.1892). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1970.33. Public domain image.

The murder by a depraved anti-Israel lunatic of a pair of Israeli Embassy staffers about to be engaged is the latest in a series of horrific attacks against Jews dating to well before 2018, when the current wave of...

May 22, 2025, 11:38 PM

The Cost of Lies

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Last night, Sarah Milgrim—a Reform Jew from Overland Park, Kansas—and her soon-to-be fiancé, Yaron Lischinsky, fell victim to a lone-wolf terrorist. He was radicalized by a torrent of lies portraying Israel not as a nation defending its citizens but...

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