Two high-profile attacks on the American Jewish community in the past two months have the Johnson County Jewish community holding their breath and at a loss for answers.
The May 21 killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who was from Prairie Village, in Washington, D.C., sparked outrage and grief and were followed soon after by the June 1 attack in Boulder, Colorado, on an Oct. 7 solidarity walk that injured at least 15 people.
A Johnson County native and member of Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Milgrim was remembered in a May 27 service. Beth Torah Executive Director Damien Timms said the area’s Jewish community has come together even more in light of the recent tragedies, noting that three rabbis conducted Milgrim’s service. In fact, while she grew up in the Beth Torah community, she and her parents were also members of other synagogues in Johnson County, including B’nai Jehudah and Kol Ami…