(22 May 2025)
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Lawrence, Kansas – 22 May 2025
1. Various of Chabad Center for Jewish Life Serving KU (University of Kansas) construction site
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Kansas:
"Sarah was a real people’s person. She enjoyed people. She loved connecting with people. She always had a smile. She had a grace about her. When she came into the room, she sat at the table. You felt her presence. And that’s something which is going to be missed. There’s a void in the world right now because a beautiful smile is no longer with us. She was someone who connected with a lot of different people. She loved people. She loved bringing people together. She loved bridging the gap and helping people connect, even if they’re different from each other. And that’s why she dedicated herself and her career to doing exactly that. And that why it’s so ironic that her life was cut short by somebody filled with hate, baseless hatred to somebody so full of love, so tragic."
3. Various of Chabad Center for Jewish Life Serving KU (University of Kansas) construction site
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Kansas:
"She’s an active participant and an important member of our community. And now it feels like we lost part of our family."
5. Mid of the construction site
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at the University of Kansas:
"Yeah, I could see from the amount of calls I got today from so many of her friends back from college, how many people felt connected. And that’s why it’s so symbolic that we’re standing in front of this new building, because this new building represents what the Jewish response is to hate. They try to crush us, we become stronger, bigger, louder. This new building is going to be in the same space where Sarah and Yaron gather on a regular basis. And now we’re going to gather with young Jewish students and continue to perpetuate the legacy that she believed in, which is joy and celebration and connectivity. And we just announced today that we are going to dedicate a space in this new building for Sarah’s memory. Because we want people to know. That the way we’re going to respond to this is by filling that void with more light and every Friday night when Jewish kids will be celebrating here or people of all different faiths, we’re gonna think of her. This is going to be her way of living on."
7. Mid of the construction site
STORYLINE:
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were colleagues, and they were a couple, days away from a marriage proposal.
But their interwoven lives were brutally cut short Wednesday evening, when the two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a young diplomats’ reception at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
Milgrim was an American citizen, according to Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog.
She hailed from Overland Park, Kansas, where a former youth director at Congregation Beth Torah remembers a brilliant girl with a perpetual smile and a sense of purpose.
Milgrim went on to the University of Kansas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies in 2021 and was a warm, uplifting presence at Shabbat dinners and holiday gatherings at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, according to Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel.
“She believed in connections, in building community and bringing people together,” Tiechtel said.
Tiechtel said a new building represents what the Jewish response is to hate.
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