Cindy Sher

Mourners attend a vigil at Columbus Circle in New York on Sunday night after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was a dual citizen of the United States and Israel on Sept. 1, 2024. There are still seven U.S. citizens in captivity by Hamas. (Adam Gray/The New York Times)

Cindy Sher: We called him Hersh

September 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Our prayers have been shattered. Now we grieve for Hersh Goldberg-Polin and the five other innocent hostages whose bodies were recovered.

A law enforcement vehicle sits near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas.

Op-ed: As the Texas synagogue hostage crisis shows, antisemitism is an ever-present threat

January 18, 2022 at 3:08 p.m.

After holding our breath for much of last Saturday, Jews around the world — and our allies — took a collective exhale when we heard news of the resolution we'd...

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