Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin are the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hamas kidnapped the 23-year-old on Oct. 7 from a rave party in the desert. The parents have met with President Joe Biden and the pope, they were on the cover of Time Magazine, and Rachel Goldberg has spoken at the UN and at the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, DC. Even so, the couple says they feel like failures because their son is still in captivity. They’ve recorded a first-person account of their experience.
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