Mother of Israeli hostage details her fight 6 months after Hamas attack

JERUSALEM — Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s mantra is the same now as it was six months ago.“I love you. Stay strong. Survive,” she urges her son, Hersh, one of the more than 130 hostages seized half a year ago by Hamas who have still not been returned from the Gaza Strip.She repeats those words constantly — whether she is out for a walk in her neighborhood or looking at the poster of her son in their Jerusalem home on Shabbat mornings. “You can make it through this, and you are going to have a long, beautiful life,” Goldberg-Polin said, 54, recounting the words that she often tells…