People walk next to a mural of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in central Jerusalem, August 18, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
A Jewish organization outside of Chicago has opened up a kosher community fridge in memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American-Israeli dual national who was taken hostage during the Hamas-led October 7 attack and murdered after 328 days in captivity.
Organizers believe Hersh’s Fridge in Skokie is the first-ever community fridge offering exclusively kosher food and is aimed at serving Jews and anyone else in need.
“Through this fridge, Hersh’s values of chesed (good deeds), community, and bridge-building are continuing to serve as a blessing – and a revolution – for the Chicagoland area, where his family’s roots run deep,” reads the info page about the project on the website of Solu, a group that aims to build bridges between Orthodox Jews and surrounding communities.
Both of Goldberg’s parents are from the Chicago area.
The site includes one fridge for kosher-certified groceries and food from kosher establishments, another holding kosher-certified groceries from kosher homes and a cabinet with certified-kosher shelf-stable goods bearing a reliable kosher certificate.
Hersh’s Fridge in Skokie, Illinois, seen on October 31, 2025. (Solu)
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