Barbara Abrams Mandel (December 13, 1925 – November 21, 2019) was an American activist and philanthropist. She was named to the

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in 1985. She was elected to two terms as President of the

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, which is the oldest Jewish women's organization in the country. Mandel and her husband

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's operation, the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation, gave a $10 million gift to the Smithsonian’s

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in 2014. Mandel died on November 21, 2019, a month after her husband.

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Mandel Foundation
1925 births 2019 deaths Businesspeople from Cleveland Jewish American community activists National Council of Jewish Women Activists from Ohio 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists 21st-century American Jews {{philanthropist-stub