At the funeral for Sarah Milgrim, who was killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington last week, the Israeli embassy aide was mourned as someone who wanted to help everyone.
At college, at temple and at the embassy where she worked, Sarah Milgrim was known for bringing people together.
“Sarah was a link, a powerful, radiant link,” Rabbi Stephanie Kramer told a synagogue overflowing with mourners on Tuesday in Overland Park, Kan., just days after Ms. Milgrim was one of two Israeli Embassy workers killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
Standing near the casket draped with an Israeli flag, as hundreds watched online, the rabbi added that Ms. Milgrim had the ability to make her family and friends feel “more deeply connected to Israel, to Jewish life, and to each other.”
Speakers at the funeral on Tuesday, held at Congregation Beth Torah, also recalled moments from her childhood. She loved horseback riding and caring for animals, once using oven mitts to save a baby bunny.
A rabbi who had known her since she was a young girl growing up in nearby Prairie Village recalled her as a steadfast member of the Jewish community through high school and then at the University of Kansas. And her supervisor at the Israeli embassy praised her for serving as a liaison to progressive groups “with a natural brilliance and boldness.”
A gunman killed Ms. Milgrim, 26, and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, last week as they left an event focused on improving the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Middle East. The suspect claimed that he “did it for Gaza,” according to an F.B.I. affidavit filed in federal court.
