Reaching for Comfort

<p>In 2004 Sherri Mandell won the National Jewish Book award for <em>The Blessing of the Broken Heart</em> which told of her grief and initial mourning after her 13-year-old son Koby was brutally murdered.</p><p><br></p><p>Years later with her pain still undiminished Sherri trained to help others as a pastoral counselor one of the first in Israel's hospitals.</p><p><br></p><p>Could a stranger offer comfort to patients and their families in the face of cancer? Could Sherri find comfort by comforting others?</p><p><br></p><p><em>Reaching for Comfort</em> is the moving memoir of an experience that was at turns painful awkward and funny but always enriching.</p>