Jewish Museum, Capital and antisemitism
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Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event.
Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in a shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, with the suspect, Elias Rodriguez, chanting “free, free Palestine” after he was taken into custody.
When Adam Zimmerman chaperoned his son's fourth-grade class field trip to the natural history museum in Washington on Wednesday, he didn't give a second thought to security.
There was an outpouring of emotion Friday for the two Israeli embassy workers gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. In a virtual service hosted by the American Jewish Committee,
Montgomery County leader pledges enhanced security at Jewish centers after two deaths at Capital Jewish Museum.
The killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim are being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said. Elias Rodriguez, 31, is in custody.