Morris Mandel
Morris Mandel (1911-2009) [1] was an American Jewish educator and journalist.
[edit] Biography
Morris Mandel was born in 1911 in Lublin, Poland. His family moved to the United States when he was three. His son Allen Mandel, is a rabbi. Mandel wrote advice columns for The Jewish Press, "Human Emotions" and "Youth Speaks Up," for close to five decades. He was English principal of Yeshiva Toras Emes; a guidance counselor in the New York City public school system; taught law and accounting; ran a singles group that produced many marriages, headed summer camps in the 1940s and 50s; lectured in the United States, Canada, and Israel; and wrote close to 50 books.[2]
[edit] Journalistic career
Mandel addressed different audiences with different messages. [3]His "Problems in Human Emotions" column sometimes said the seemingly obvious ("Even the darkest hour only has 60 minutes" [4]), but in a way that found him being authoritatively cited [5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.voices-magazine.com/about.php
- ^ 'Success Comes In Cans; Failure In Can'ts'
- ^ http://www.productivelivinginstitute.com/resources_center.htm
- ^ quoted at http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/team_messageboard_thread.asp?board=0x953x16965187 and http://www.quotes.net/authors/Morris+Mandel
- ^ example: Torn at the Roots, ISBN 9780231123754, Jan. 2004, by Michael E. Staub, pp. 348-350: 13 of 49 footnotes sourced to Mandel's writings
