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Sep 4, 2025, 1:28 PM

Our wish, said the children, is that all the hostages come home soon

Friends and family members attend a one year memorial service in Jerusalem on August 19, 2025, for Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was murdered by his Hamas captors in Gaza. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Last Shabbat became a time of epiphany, as I saw our community's new first-graders and led prayers for the first time since Hersh was taken

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Jon Polin is the father of Hersh, z”l, Leebie, and Orly Goldberg-Polin.