Israeli couple killed near Jewish Museum in Washington, DC
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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Summary
Two young adults were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night. The fact that a man claiming to support Gaza can murder a German-born Christian and an American with many Palestinian friends shows how nonsensical antisemitic hatred truly is. And it’s why we need to live every day ready for eternity. What happened in Washington could happen to anyone, anywhere. We only have today to be right with God and to use our influence to help those we know do the same.
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| 0:00.0 | Due to an internet outage in our area, the Daily Article podcast has been significantly delayed today. |
| 0:06.3 | We regret any inconvenience this might have caused you. |
| 0:10.5 | Good day and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast for Friday, May the 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, |
| 0:24.6 | Dr. Jim Denison. Two young adults were killed outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on |
| 0:33.2 | Wednesday night. I had planned to make this tragedy the introduction to a very different daily |
| 0:37.8 | article than the one I am now writing this morning. However, today's news gives us new information |
| 0:43.3 | about the victims that has changed my direction and focus. Yeran Lachensky was born in Germany |
| 0:49.2 | and moved to Israel where he served in the Israeli military before relocating to Washington. He worked at the |
| 0:55.6 | Israeli embassy as a research assistant. According to a friend, he was a devout Christian. |
| 1:01.9 | Sarah Lynn Milgram was an American from Kansas who worked in the Israeli embassy's public diplomacy |
| 1:07.9 | department. Her father said she loved everybody that lived in the Middle |
| 1:12.1 | East and had a lot of close Palestinian friends as well as many Israeli friends. |
| 1:18.3 | End quote. According to Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Lachinsky planned to propose to her |
| 1:23.7 | in Jerusalem next week. The suspect who shot and murdered them later told police, |
| 1:29.1 | I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, end quote. Two days after this shocking tragedy, |
| 1:35.4 | my anger over it has only grown. What could the suspect possibly believed he changed in Gaza |
| 1:41.1 | with his crime? Does he think Israel will change its stance on Hamas? |
| 1:45.7 | The fact that he shot an American with many Palestinian friends and a German-born Christian |
| 1:50.8 | shows he had no idea who he was murdering. This is the way anti-Semitism works, however. |
| 1:56.8 | Hate crimes against Jews have risen in the U.S. by 344% in the last five years and by 893% over the last 10 years. |
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