The eternal light of the woman gunned down at the Jewish Museum

Boston Globe

3 days ago

Milgrim's mission, personally and as an aide at the Israeli Embassy, was peace. For that cause, she strove valiantly, constantly, and in the service of that cause, her life was taken. A force of goodness and grace met the embodiment of evil.
Milgrim did not go gentle into that good night.
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Young children can remark that perhaps God is crying when it pours like it did on that stormy night. The rain pelting Washington may have saved lives, as attendees at the American Jewish Committee event waited inside and ran to cars in the moments before the shooting. The suspected gunman fumbled with his weapon. It jammed.
The AJC had held another event the night before, where centenarian
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Shortly before Hitler came to power, antisemitic thugs had murdered Frank's uncle when they discovered he was Jewish as he walked down the street.
As a child in Nazi Germany, Cohn saw the antisemitic evil that rang out in gunfire in Washington last week. After the suspect allegedly fired 21 rounds of bullets into Sarah and Yaron, he entered the building to taunt the other Jewish attendees at the event, proud of his heinous crime:
His chants echoed slogans from demonstrations on college campuses last year. Jewish students were regarded by some as being too sensitive to these protests, as their classmates, much like Frank's nanny, embraced carelessness with their lives, screaming 'Globalize the Intifada,' a call for worldwide violence against Jews.
While it is true that many of the college demonstrators display an uncommon ignorance about the subject matter, the Jewish students on their campuses, like the small Jewish boy on the streets of Nazi Germany, knew that they had been betrayed.
A CNN anchor
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To use language common to the campus culture, I would ask that anchor if she believes
Forgive me if I seem enraged. I am.
It was a righteous fury to defy the Nazis that sustained Frank in his noble mission in World War II, and a righteous fury that fueled the soul of Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who never gave up for the cause of peace, who sought justice for sexual assault victims of Oct. 7, and who brightened the world with her magnificent fire.
May her drive light our way, pushing toward goodness, against the hatred in the heart of her suspected killer, and toward the peace she furiously sought.