The message we are giving is, what would Sarah want us to do? What would she whisper in our ears now? She would say, ‘More light, more love. Don’t fight darkness with more darkness.’”

She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.

American University Professor Jesse Ribot remembers his former student, Sarah Milgrim, who was shot and killed along with her boyfriend outside the Capital Jewish Museum. News4’s Jessica Albert reports.

Sarah Lynn Milgrim of Johnson County and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, were on the eve of being engaged when they were killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Milgrim, killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum Wednesday with her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, was very involved in Jewish life.

A memorial is growing outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where two Israeli Embassy staffers, including a Kansas native, were shot and killed Wednesday night in what federal authorities are calling an act of terror.

Communities across Kansas City continue to mourn Sarah Milgrim, from her friends and family in the Jewish community, to those in her after-school activities at her high school, Shawnee Mission East.

The image of a happy couple projected on a screen at the Jewish Community Campus Thursday night was one people around the world have seen, but it felt painfully close for those who sat in the social hall.

Sarah Milgrim grew up in Overland Park, leading the life of an American teenager. As she grew older, she developed a deeper commitment to her own Jewish identity.

"And so I feel action is always the right way to go forward, because you take pain and you do something with it. You create more positivity with the people around you in the world.”