Morris Mandel
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Morris Mandel was born in 1911 in LublinLublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...
, Poland. His family moved to the United States when he was three. His son Allen Mandel, is a rabbi
Rabbi
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. Mandel wrote advice columns for The Jewish Press
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, "Human Emotions" and "Youth Speaks Up," for close to five decades. He was English principal of Yeshiva
Yeshiva
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Toras Emes; a guidance counselor in the New York City
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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
Israel
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; and wrote close to 50 books.