(22 May 2025)
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Washington, DC – 22 May 2025
1. People write notes to express condolences over shooting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadar Susskind, President, New Jewish Narrative:
"This is an unbelievable, painful moment, and it’s so important that we’re here together to stand in solidarity. We honor the memory of those who were killed yesterday, and we speak up and say, we have to do better. We all have to better. We have to be here together, working for peace. We have find a better way to a better future for Israelis, for Palestinians, for American Jews, for Muslims, for all of us. This cannot be the answer. Violence, the cycle, endless bloodshed cannot be the best that we have to offer."
3. Close-up of man writing note at vigil scene
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Shira Stutman, Founding Rabbi of Sixth & I Historic Synagogue:
"Two young souls murdered, Yaron and Sarah. We are brokenhearted for them and for their families. We are heartbroken for all Jews in America who don’t feel safe in this moment. We are brokehearted for all of us in America, who don´t feel safe because of the ways that we are marginalized or oppressed."
5. Pan on condolence notes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Scott Perlo, Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
"And if you’re not enraged, you should be. And if your not broken hearted, you ought to be. How can we stand here like it’s normal? Like this is our world. Don’t you want something better? Aren’t you willing to fight for it?"
7. People writing condolence notes
8. Rabbis and onlookers singing at vigil
9. Pan lon notes left at vigil
STORYLINE:
Stunned and saddened Washington, D.C.-area residents, and others, left notes and sang in solidarity Thursday at a impromptu vigil held outside the Capital Jewish Museum after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed while leaving an event there late Wednesday.
The stunning attack prompted Israeli missions to beef up their security and lower their flags to half-staff. It came as Israel has launched another major offensive in the Gaza Strip in a war with Hamas that has heightened tensions across the Middle East and internationally and as antisemitic acts are on the rise.
"This is an unbelievable, painful moment, and it’s so important that we’re here together to stand in solidarity," said Hadar Susskind, the president of New Jewish Narrative, an organization that describes itself as promoting peace, justice, and a progressive Israel.
"We honor the memory of those who were killed yesterday, and we speak up and say, we have to do better," he said.
The two people killed, identified as Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, were a young couple about to be engaged, according to Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
The couple were leaving an event at the museum when the suspect, who had been seen pacing outside the museum, approached a group of four people and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference.
The gunman was identified by police as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, walked into the museum after the shooting. He was detained by event security and began chanting, “Free, free Palestine,” Smith said.
Lischinsky told others at an event he attended before he was killed that he was looking forward to returning to Israel to celebrate an upcoming Jewish holiday, said Ted Deutch, the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, which had put on the reception.
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