(JEWISH GROUP) Rachel Goldberg-Polin doesn't know if you can handle her pain

Four days before she would bury her only son, Rachel Goldberg-Polin stood at the edge of Israel, screaming toward the unforgiving territory where Hersh was being held hostage more than 50 feet underground.

Her voice cracked as she called his name, her raw emotion shattering the facade of composure she had projected when speaking weeks earlier at the Democratic National Convention in her native Chicago about Hersh and the other Israeli hostages taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023.

For 328 days, Goldberg-Polin had been a picture of self-control as she met with world leaders and the pope and anyone else she could to call attention to her son’s plight. Now, she was shrieking.

“I startled the people around us. A cameraman burst into tears. The news crews and others gathered didn’t know the event was beginning, and they didn’t know we families would be howling like wounded animals,” she writes in her new book, out this week. “We were, and are, wounded animals. I am a wounded animal. Every day. Still.”

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