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I believe in God, in Hersh and in that he is coming home

Sid Rosenberg interviews Rachel Goldberg, the mother of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Sid Rosenberg of the show “Sid & Friends” interviews Rachel Goldberg, the mother of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken captive on Oct. 7 during the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel. She talks about her daily fight to bring him home, how responsive the United States and Israeli governments have been to this collective plea, and how she finds the strength to go on.

“There’s so much to do, and world leaders have the authority to move the needle,” Eric Goldstein, who leads the UJA, told JNS. “We need to motivate them.”
The Israeli prime minister plans to meet with the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Panama and Ethiopia, as well as the prime ministers of Greece, Slovenia and Papua New Guinea.
António Guterres said there’s an “onslaught” on Gazans “with a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as secretary-general.”
King Abdullah II’s father, King Hussein, cracked down on the PLO in 1970 and revoked the citizenship of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in 1988.