Funeral services planned in Overland Park for Sarah Milgrim
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Funeral services for Sarah Milgram will be held in the Kansas City area on Tuesday. Milgram was killed last week in a suspected antisemitic double homicide in Washington, D.C.
The Louis Memorial Chapel and the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City shared details over the holiday weekend.
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Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park. A private family burial will follow.
The funeral is not open to the public, but it will be livestreamed on the Congregation Beth Torah YouTube Channel.
Contributions in Milgrim's name may be directed to the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City.
'We call upon our wider community, no matter the denomination, to join us in rejecting violence in all forms and to seek unity with compassion and understanding,' The Jewish Federation of Kansas City said in a news release.
'Zichronam livracha. May Sarah Milgrim's memory be a blessing and may we continue to strive for a world of peace, as she did.'
Milgrim was killed in a suspected antisemitic double homicide outside a Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week.
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Her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, was also shot during the antisemitic attack. The FBI is investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter told the Associated Press that the couple was about to be engaged, saying the man had purchased a ring the week of the shooting with the intent to propose next week in Jerusalem.
Milgrim graduated from Shawnee Mission East and the University of Kansas.
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