Episode 5

Sherri Mandel - The road to Resilience

I did whatever I had to do because I had a bigger goal to remember

Sherri Mandell won a National Jewish Book Award in 2004 for her spiritual memoir, The Blessing of a Broken Heart (Toby Press, 2003). Translated into three languages, the book was adapted into a stage play. Her book, The Road to Resilience: From Chaos to Celebration (Toby Press, 2015) details the spiritual stages of resilience. She is also the author of Writers of the Holocaust (Facts on File, 1997) and has written for numerous magazines and journals including USA Today, The Times of Israel, Hadassah Magazine, and the Jerusalem Post. She received Moment Magazine's prize for best short fiction in 2009 and a Simon Rockower prize for the personal essay in 2011. She is also the author of  two forthcoming children’s picture books. She received the ADL Partners in Peace Award in 2004 as well as Jewish Women’s International Women to Watch Award.

For the past eighteen years, she and her husband have directed the Koby Mandell Foundation in Israel whose flagship program is Camp Koby, a therapeutic sleep away camp for bereaved children. Sherri is also a certified pastoral counsellor. She runs healing groups for bereaved mothers and lectures about grief and resilience around the world.

Website:  www.kobymandell.org

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