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FBI, Homeland Security Dept. issue PSA to stress elevated threat to Israeli, Jewish communities

The PSA referenced the Boulder, Colorado, Molotov cocktail attack on pro-Israel advocates on June 1 and the murder of two Israeli Embassy staff at the Capital Jewish Museum in late May. 

 A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, kneels next to emergency personnel working at the site where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., US May 21, 2025.
FBI van in Texas

FBI discovers weapons, explosives, Nazi paraphernalia in Washington home

An Israeli flag is placed at the Pearl Street Mall, after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 1, 2025.

Huckabee: 'Reckless and irresponsible' US media reports enabled Colorado, Washington attacks

 Unity of Fields' campaign calls Elias Rodriguez’s crime "a legitimate act of resistance against the zionist state"

Anti-capitalism, antisemitism, and the global intifada: A troubling link in Washington - opinion


The Jewish community comes together when facing antisemitism - opinion

Antisemites do not distinguish between Jews recognized by Orthodox Halacha, liberal denominations, or even apostates. Their hatred is blind to these categories.

YARON LISCHINSKY and Sarah Milgrim were murdered as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum last month. The writer wonders: How might we soften the boundaries of Jewish peoplehood by considering those who choose or are forced into the fate of being Jewish?

After DC embassy workers' murder, the fight against Jew-hatred must not be politicized – opinion

In this article, the antisemitism envoys for the Trump and Biden administrations push for unity in the fight against antisemitism.

 Dictionary definition of antisemitism.

Parashat Bamidbar: In memory of Sarah Milgrim

Sara Milgrim: A life of quiet strength, compassion, and fierce faith. May her legacy inspire us to carry her light through the wilderness.

 Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.

Messianic and Episcopal communities mourn Capital Jewish Museum shooting victims

A photograph of the couple is now on display at the Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes next to some candles, inviting visitors to prayer.

Flowers are laid out near the site where two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum, in Washington, DC, US, May 22, 2025

DSA condemns Capital Jewish Museum shooting after one of its factions praises the attack

“Democratic Socialists of America seek to democratically transform our society and reject vigilante violence,” DSA posted on X.

Demonstrators with the Democratic Socialists of America take part in a rally on International Women’s Day in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, March 8, 2018.

Rabbis increase security in wake of DC shooting

Many Jewish institutions have used strengthened security measures to instill a sense of safety in congregants after the recent killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC.

 Police secure the area in front of the embassy of Israel in Berlin, Germany, May 22, 2025

‘We will continue your mission’: DC Jewish museum shooting victim mourned at Kansas City funeral

The funeral at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, took place more than five days after Milgrim and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, were shot to death.

Rabbi Doug Alpert speaks at the funeral of Sarah Milgrim at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 27, 2025. (Screenshot)

Coming soon to a theater near you: The threat of antisemitic attacks - opinion

Jewish communities around the world are facing the growing threat of antisemitic attacks, and it is our responsibility to help our Jewish brethren.

 A protestor wearing a scarf holds her phone during a march commemorating Nakba day, the "catastrophe" of the mass dispossession of the Palestinian territory in the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation in Madrid, Spain, May 15, 2025.

Words aren’t ‘violence,’ but Jew-hating words can kill - opinion

Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism, and rhetoric can stir violence such as the killings in Washington.

 AN ANTI-ISRAEL demonstrator holds a sign at the University of Washington in Seattle, in March. Most who hate Israel hate Jews, the writer argues.

‘Dozens of anti-Jewish terror plots have been foiled,' JFNA chief warns after Washington murders

"After 9/11 the United States created the Department of Homeland Security for aviation threats; a comparable effort is now needed to defend houses of worship," said Eric Fingerhut.

 Police officers work at the site where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, US May 21, 2025.

Murder by intersectionality: The warped logic of identity-fueled violence - opinion

The shooter of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington perpetrated a murder by intersectionality.

 ELIAS RODRIGUEZ appears, as depicted in a sketch, last Thursday at a US District Court, where he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum. He reportedly told police: ‘I did it for Palestine; I did it for Gaza.’