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Family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin remembers his legacy at start of Rosh Hashanah
Regina Waldroup
October 2, 2024

The family of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is remembering his legacy at the start of Rosh Hashanah, as the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel nears. The 23-year-old was wounded and later kidnapped from a music festival near the Israel-Gaza Strip border during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. His parents, both Chicago natives, became outspoken advocates for the release of their son and other hostages. Goldberg-Polin’s aunt, Abby Polin, believes the issue should not be seen as a Jewish or Israeli cause, but a human cause.  READ MORE
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TIME MAG As the Families of Murdered Hostages, Our Message to People in Power Is Simple: Act On the clear, blue-skied Saturday morning of Oct. 7, 2023, our loved ones and 245 others were brutally stolen from us by Hamas terrorists. Carmel was visiting her parents at Kibbutz Be’eri. Almog, Alexander, Eden, Hersh, and Ori had been celebrating peace and freedom at the Nova Music Festival. These six beautiful people were abducted into Gaza, several of them with critical injuries. They languished in miserable conditions for 328 days, then, on Aug. 29, were shot in the head, hands, shoulders, and elsewhere in their battered and starving bodies. Israeli forces found their emaciated corpses two days later in a tunnel 65 feet under a Gazan child’s bedroom.  READ MORE