'Could happen to any of us'

(JNS) - The creation of a new Jewish Federation in the Maryland state capital was inspired, in part, by the death of Sarah Milgrim, who was murdered along with her boyfriend Yaron Lischinsky a year ago Thursday, when the two Israeli embassy staffers left an American Jewish Committee event about a mile from the White House.

"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of her and mourn her loss, while also recognizing that it could happen to any Jew at any time anywhere at this point," Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, co-founder of the Jewish Federation of Annapolis and Chesapeake, told JNS.

"Ther...