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Sherri Mandell

Sherri Mandell is co-director of the Koby Mandell Foundation which runs programs for bereaved families in Israel… [More]
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April 8, 2013
5:27 am

The sinister syntax of stone throwing

I delayed reading Amira Hass’s article in Haaretz, The inner syntax of Palestinian stone-throwing, because I knew that it would put me in pain. Amira Hass tells......

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December 25, 2012
5:40 pm

10 ways to help Newtown’s grieving families: from a mother who knows

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, several people have contacted me, asking how to help the families who lost young children because our family suffered its......

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October 29, 2012
8:24 pm

The state of emergency

I’m tracking Hurricane Sandy, on the Internet, calling my sisters in New York. My husband and son are stuck in Texas, can’t make it back to New York for......

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June 14, 2012
5:29 pm

Take the stage of your life

The Koby Mandell Foundation runs a comedy fundraiser twice a year in Israel with comedians who join us from America. It’s June, the comedians are back and I’m thinking about......

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April 26, 2012
10:50 am

Of swords and clarinets, memorial and independence

Yesterday I got a taste of the meaning of the transition between Israeli Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) and Independence Day. On Yom Hazikaron, we went to the cemetery in Kfar......

April 19, 2012
3:21 pm

Whispered in the sound of sirens

On The eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the shops closed early in Jerusalem. I ran into a takeout place to get shawarma in pita sandwiches. It was 6 p.m.,......