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‘Whose seat is now empty’: Remembering Hersh Goldberg-Polin at his family’s Passover retreat

JL;DR SUMMARY The article commemorates Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was killed by Hamas after 11 months in captivity, at a Camp Ramah Darom Passover retreat in Georgia, a place significant to his family. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FamilyPassoverMemorialCommunityHersh Goldberg PolinTributeRemembranceJewish RetreatRamah DaromArk Curtain

Places mentioned

Clayton, Georgia, United States
"CLAYTON, GEORGIA On a blue-sky Thursday in the north Georgia mountains, Ramah Daroms canoes rested and pickleballs sat idle as more than 200 people filed into the sanctuary overlooking the lake to remember Hersh Goldberg-Polin son, brother, camper, counselor killed by Hamas after nearly 11 months in captivity."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Steinberg recalled Hersh in younger years, perched on someones shoulders, dancing after the Seder as the crowd sang Next Year in Jerusalem."

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