Koby mandell biography of martin
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20 years after terrorist attack, victim's family tells their story onstage
About 10 years ago, Sherri Mandell got a phone call from a total stranger in California.
His name was Todd Salovey and he’d come across her National Jewish Book Award-winning The Blessing of a Broken Heart.
“I just read your book and it really moved me,” the playwright told Sherri.
“I’m a director and professor at UC San Diego and I’d love to make your book into a play.”
The book details how Sherri, with the support of her family and community, coped with her grief after terrorists fatally stoned the Mandells’ 13-year-old son, Koby, and his friend Yosef Ishran in a cave near their home in Tekoa in May 2001.
Salovey’s one-woman stage adaptation was performed over the course of five years on the West and East coasts of the United States, winning an Edgerton New American Play Award in the process.
In January, The Blessing of a Broken Heart is co