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There is great uncertainty at this time around the next hostage release and indeed, for the ceasefire itself. Whatever happens on Saturday, February 15 (unless it is the release of all 76 remaining hostages) we will walk on Sunday, February 16.
We will continue our walks until all the hostages are home. Please walk with us – we haven’t missed a Sunday since Thanksgiving 2023. Let’s show our solidarity with the hostages and their families, and let’s say their names aloud.
And, as Rachel Goldberg-Polin asserted, HOPE IS MANDATORY.
Please walk with us this week. Let our community know that we have not forgotten any of the 76 hostages still being held, and we can hope to celebrate the release of the next set of hostages this Saturday.
Thank you, as always, for sharing widely on your list serves and social media accounts.
Rachel
“Run for Their Lives was started for the sole reason of advocating for the release of the hostages, and bringing awareness to this horrendous situation. We will not stop until all 98 of them are returned. There are still 65 hostages that will remain behind until phase 2 and 3 are negotiated and executed. This first phase only includes 33 of the 98 hostages and will last for 42 days.”
– Leaders of the global Run for Their Lives Movement on the announced ceasefire deal
Monday, February 17th marks the 500th day since 240 hostages were kidnapped from Israel and taken to Gaza. 76 of them, six of whom are American citizens, still remain captive there. We pray that the deal that will bring them home stays on track. Please – join us this Sunday to walk for all those still held hostage. The world cannot forget. Please bring posters and wear red.
The local Boulder chapter of Run For Their Lives (part of the larger Bring Them Home Now initiative) has been walking in downtown Boulder every week since Thanksgiving, 2023. There are multiple groups like ours meeting internationally and across US cities (including a local Denver chapter).
There are 231 active Run For Their Lives groups across the world. Wherever you are, whether visiting friends or family or vacationing, you can join a group and walk with them, or walk on your own and post a video in the main Run For Their Lives Facebook group, in our local FB group, or on your own feeds. The initiative’s goal is to get as much press coverage as possible for the hostages through publicizing these walks.
Please share our local instagram posts: https://www.instagram.com/run4theirlives_boulder/profilecard/?igsh=aG84MTQ0ZWJ4ODY5
Please join our Boulder group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/18k7a9WJ23/
If you want to order Run For Their Lives gear, you can get it at: https://www.calicustoms.info/runfortheirlives and donations for items can also be made to https://solidarity.bringthemhomenow.net/
Our group meets at 1 pm on the corner of Pearl & 8th and walks the length of the Pearl Street Mall and back, stopping at the courthouse for a brief video that the leads of Run For Their Lives include in their weekly recap. The goal is to share the message far and wide (specifically via social media) that the hostages have not been forgotten. This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release.
When: Sunday, February 16th at 1 pm
Meet-up: Corner of Pearl & 8th Street
Rachel, thank you for your unwavering commitment to the Hostages and their families. I hope readers have seen the pictures and read the reports of their conditions in hell. Yes indeed, in 2025 Jews are being held in captivity and tortured. The lucky ones are being returned in Auschwitz-like physical condition, and if its even possible to imagine, perhaps psychologically worse for some. And it's all there for the world and Jews in the diaspora to see and hear. The silence is stunning and reminiscent of widespread American Jewish silence and inaction during the Shoah. It's reminiscent of American Jewish silence and inaction for Soviet Jewry until Meir Kahane's (may his name be cursed) Jewish Defense League took to the streets and woke them up. It may be too late for the Hostages, but as you said, Hope is mandatory. Thanks for being on the front lines.