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Sherri Mandell
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 Tekoa 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".
Education and professional history.
Sherri Mandell was born in New York and graduated from Cornell University
parents Seth and Sherri Mandell, is to "work to bridge the isolation that bereaved children and adults are struck with after the loss of a loved one." Leonard A. Cole, in his book "Terror: how Israel has coped and what America can learn", writes that Koby's parents are determined "to take the cruelty of Koby's murder and transform it into kindness."
Both Seth and Sherri Mandell reject responding to violence with violence. Seth Mandell says that "Throwing stones at Arab houses makes us