Barbara Mandel

{{Short description|American activist and philanthropist (1925–2019)}}

{{distinguish|text=British journalist and newsreader Barbara Mandell, or American singer and actress Barbara Mandrell}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Barbara Mandel

| birth_name = Barbara Abrams

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|12|13}}

| birth_place = Cleveland Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|11|21|1925|12|13}}

| death_place = Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.

| occupation = Activist and philanthropist

| years_active =

| known_for =

| spouse = {{marriage|end=his death|Morton Mandel|1949|2019}}

}}

Barbara Abrams Mandel (December 13, 1925 – November 21, 2019) was an American activist and philanthropist. She was named to the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame{{cite book | last=Royster | first=J.J. | title=Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803–2003 | publisher=Ohio University Press | series=Ohio Bicentennial | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-8214-1508-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tV3CKGuGoRkC&pg=PT270 | access-date=May 28, 2016 | page=270}} in 1985.{{cite web | title=SEARCH the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame | website=ODJFS Online | url=http://www.odjfs.state.oh.us/women/halloffame/bio.asp?ID=195 | access-date=May 28, 2016}} She was elected to two terms as President of the National Council of Jewish Women, which is the oldest Jewish women's organization in the country. Mandel and her husband Morton's operation, the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation,{{cite web | website=fconline.foundationcenter.org | date=December 1, 1979 | url=https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/grantmaker-profile/?key=MAND003 | title=Mandel Foundation | access-date=May 28, 2016}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RnsRmr6WfroC&q=mandel&pg=PA442|title=Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry|author=Daniel Judah Elazar|publisher=Jewish Publication Society|year=1995|isbn=978-0-8276-0565-7}} gave a $10 million gift to the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2014.{{cite web | title=Cooper-Hewitt Receives $10 Million Gift from the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family FoundationCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | website=Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum | date=February 6, 2014 | url=http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/02/06/cooper-hewitt-receives-10-million-gift-from-the-morton-and-barbara-mandel-family-foundation/ | access-date=May 28, 2016}}{{cite web | last=Stoessel | first=Amy Ann | title=Barbara and Morton Mandel give $10 million to Smithsonian museum in New York | website=Crain's Cleveland Business | date=February 6, 2014 | url=http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140206/FREE/140209877/barbara-and-morton-mandel-give-10-million-to-smithsonian-museum-in | access-date=May 28, 2016}}{{cite web | title=Cooper-Hewitt Receives $10 Million Gift from the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation | website=Newsdesk | date=February 6, 2014 | url=http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/cooper-hewitt-receives-10-million-gift-morton-and-barbara-mandel-family-foundation | access-date=May 31, 2016}}

Mandel died on November 21, 2019, a month after her husband.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/barbara-mandel-widow-of-morton-mandel-dies-at-98/95-7eea2109-e620-4d61-9b4e-cee5ecb04590|title=Barbara Mandel, widow of Morton Mandel, dies at 98|website=wkyc.com|date=November 22, 2019 }}