Hours after learning Sarah Milgrim had been killed near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel found the words he knew people needed to hear.

Words that even he, who is still processing the loss of a young woman he came to know at the University of Kansas and kept in touch with as she became a young leader in the Jewish community, can cling to.

“The message we are giving is, what would Sarah want us to do?” Tiechtel told The Star. “What would she whisper in our ears now?

“She would say, ‘More light, more love. Don’t fight darkness with more darkness.’ Fight darkness with light and positivity, that’s the message that we are giving.”

Milgrim, 26, who grew up in Prairie Village and graduated from KU in 2021, was with her boyfriend Yaron Lischinsky, 30, when t

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