(JNS) -- The FBI raided the Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez on Thursday, searching for clues in their investigation of the 30-year-old, who is accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington on Wednesday night, as they...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 22, 2025
St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, were gunned...
(JTA) — At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.”
Ten minutes...
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle Staff
• Published May 22, 2025
Community member Sarah Milgrim, 26, was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while exiting an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Capitol Jewish Museum. Milgrim, a University of Kansas graduate and native of Prairie Village, was an employee...
Erez Linn, (Israel Hayom via JNS)
• Published May 22, 2025
Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the American woman who was murdered on Wednesday with her Israeli partner, Yaron Lischinsky, when a terrorist opened fire at an event in Washington’s Capital Jewish Museum, was a graduate student at American University School of...
By Louis Keene, The Forward
• Published May 22, 2025
The man who allegedly walked up to two Israeli embassy staffers and shot them dead Wednesday night reportedly told eyewitnesses he “did it for Gaza.”
But the event those staffers had just left at the Capital Jewish Museum highlighted an organization...
(JTA) — Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event.
Both of the people killed were staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to Jewish...
Not many people would open a tribute to their dead parents with a hand job joke. But it makes sense that the person who would – and pulls it off pretty tastefully – is Sarah Silverman.
Her new Netflix comedy special PostMortem was inspired by the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 21, 2025
It’s also the perfect time to revisit the surprising Jewish angles woven into “Jaws.” You see, the Jewish identities of director Steven Spielberg and star Richard Dreyfuss have sparked a cottage industry of critics and scholars trying to decode...
(JTA) — In 2021 at a viewing party for “WrestleMania,” the world’s flagship pro wrestling event, Oren Treitman and his fellow Israeli fans cheered for Sami Zayn.
In the larger WWE storyline, Zayn had taken on the persona of a conspiracy theorist,...
Over a quarter of Jewish adults in the United States say they consult astrology or a horoscope at least once or twice a year, according to a new study.
The study by the Pew Research Center survey, published Wednesday, surveyed U.S. opinion on astrology,...
A man appointed to an advisory committee by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has stepped down amid outcry over a 2023 video of him tearing down Israeli hostage posters.
Ishan Daya was one of 20 appointees to Johnson’s new Chicago Fiscal Sustainability...
