We will hold our conversation about Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir When We See You Again on September 2, 6:00 PM PST on Zoom. From the publisher’s description:  

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love — and, in that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and her husband, Jon, would work tirelessly to secure the hostages’ release, to breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she would also become the face of its ultimate cost.

This conversation is part of our “Exploring Blind Spots & Biases” learning series for the fall of 2026. The goal of this series is to challenge our own and each others’ assumptions. Through these challenging and compassionate conversations, we can all broaden our perspectives and understandings. 

We hope you’ll join us.