Sherri Mandel

Sherri Mandell is an Israeli-American author, a mother and activist. She is best known as the mother of Koby Mandell, a thirteen-year-old American boy who was murdered near their home in the West Bank in May 2001. Mandell and her husband, Rabbi Seth Mandell, founded the Koby Mandell Foundation, and Mandell wrote a book about the murder entitled The Blessing of a Broken Heart.

Sherri Mandell was born in New York and graduated from Cornell University in 1977. She received an M.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and taught writing at the University of Maryland and at Penn State University. She is the author of Writers of the Holocaust and has written for numerous magazines and journals, including The Washington Post, The Denver Post and The Jerusalem Post, as well as Hadassah Magazine. Sherri and her husband Seth currently write a blog at JPost.com.Heart Earned Wisdom

Sherri and Seth lived in Israel briefly, and Sherri gave birth there to their first child, Yaakov (Koby) Mandell. In 1996, with her husband and their four children, Sherri moved to a settlement in the West Bank, where she still lives today. Sherri and Seth, a rabbi and Israel activist, spent several years in Chinuch, Jewish education, prior to moving to Israel. Seth Mandell was the executive director of the University of Maryland Hillel in College Park, Maryland, from ?? until 1996. Before that he was the director of the Penn State University Hillel. The time they spent as a Hillel family, particularly when they were living in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, developed within Sherri and Seth a sense of activism.

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