Emhoff, who frequently uses his platform to talk about his Jewish faith and antisemitism, addressed Adas Israel Congregation this week in the wake of the death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and others.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is pictured at an event on Capitol Hill in February. On Tuesday, he spoke to the Adas Israel Congregation about the hostages who were recently found killed in the Gaza Strip.Second gentleman Doug Emhoff said he is “gutted” over the death of six Israeli hostages killed by Hamas this week. Emhoff spoke at the national vigil for the hostages at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
“It is good to be together this evening. There is comfort in community,” Emhoff said. “But standing on this bimah, I can only be direct: This is hard. I feel raw. I’m gutted.” He addressed the death of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whom militants seized at a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Goldberg-Polin, a native of Berkeley, Calif., lost, including Goldberg-Polin’s, in a tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. Israel's health ministry said forensic examination showed they had been killed in the last few days.
On Tuesday, Emhoff said, “President Biden and Vice President Harris are working around the clock to get a hostage-and-ceasefire deal done.”
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