Barbara Mandel

Barbara Abrams Mandel was an American activist and philanthropist. She was named to the Ohio Women's [Hall of Fame] in 1985. 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, gave a $10 million gift to the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, [National Design Museum] in 2014.
Mandel died on November 21, 2019, a month after her husband.