Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim were shot dead in Washington on Wednesday night, in an antisemitic attack that's left the Jewish community in shock.

When David Boskey first met Yaron Lischinsky at a small Hebrew-speaking congregation in downtown Jerusalem, he saw someone who was “soft-spoken, but not timid. Always smiling. Always ...

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Slain staffer Yaron Lischinsky had purchased an engagement ring and was planning to propose to his colleague Sarah Milgrim.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hailed from different parts of the world, but their paths led them both to pursue careers in diplomacy and to the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC – where they found each other and fell in love.

WASHINGTON — As D.C. continues to grapple with Wednesday night’s violent shooting that left a couple dead in front of the Capital Jewish Museum, a memorial for the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed has been growing since the shooting.

Several Jewish organizations and Chicago officials held a press conference Friday to condemn the fatal shooting of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, Israeli Embassy staffers, on Wednesday night as they were leaving an event at a Jewish museum.

Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.