The girl was 15. Her killer walks free.
A July 16 Zoom panel with the families of Americans murdered by terrorists — and the constitutional lawyer fighting to bring the killers to justice.
In this issue: A July 16 Zoom panel with the families of Americans murdered by terrorists — and the constitutional lawyer fighting to bring the killers to justice.
In August 2001, a fifteen-year-old American girl named Malki Roth walked into a pizzeria in Jerusalem and never walked out. The woman who picked that pizzeria — because it was full of children — was caught, convicted, and sentenced to sixteen life terms.
She served eight years. A hostage deal set her free. She lives in Jordan today, openly, with no remorse, while the FBI lists her among its Most Wanted Terrorists and offers five million dollars for her arrest. Jordan will not hand her over.
Come, and bring someone with you. These families have carried this alone for a long time. The least we can do is show up and listen.
— Cheryl Dorchinsky, Executive Director
Panel · Free · On Zoom
Justice Beyond Borders: Americans Murdered by Terrorists and the Fight for Accountability
Thursday, July 16 · 7:00 PM ET · Live on Zoom · Free and open to all; audience Q&A follows
On Thursday, July 16, AIC, the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel, and a coalition of partner organizations are hosting an evening with the people who live with that injustice — and one lawyer determined to change it.
Arnold Roth is Malki's father. For more than twenty years he has fought to bring her killer to American justice.
Kathleen Luken is the identical twin of Kristine Luken, an American murdered on a hiking trail near Beit Shemesh in 2010. She stayed silent for thirteen years. What she finally said is hard to forget.
Tal Hartuv was hiking beside Kristine that afternoon. She was stabbed more than a dozen times and left for dead. She played dead, then walked over a kilometer through the forest, bound and bleeding, to get help. One of her attackers was released in the 2025 Gaza hostage deal — and she learned about it from the news.
Mark Goldfeder is a constitutional attorney and the head of the National Jewish Advocacy Center.
This is an honest conversation about the hardest question we face: hostage deals bring our people home, and they also send convicted murderers back onto the street. We are going to talk about what comes next — about extradition, about the American laws that already let families fight back, and about what accountability looks like when a government refuses to act.
MITZVAHS THAT FLOAT
Waiting in the parking lot at Lake Lanier
On a hot July ice run to Lake Lanier, a Quacker found a little kosher duck waiting in the parking lot. “Thanks for the smiles,” they wrote. One duck, one stranger’s brighter afternoon — a mitzvah that floats. From Georgia lakes to city sidewalks, the ducks keep drifting into view, one duck at a time.