Bethany Shondark Mandel is a conservative American columnist and political and cultural commentator who writes for the New York Post and Washington Examiner.
16 Facts About Bethany Mandel
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Bethany Mandel's father committed suicide when she was 19, after struggling with an addiction to opioid painkillers.
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Bethany Mandel graduated from Rutgers University in 2008 with a degree in history and Jewish studies.
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In 2023, Bethany Mandel co-wrote with Karol Markowicz Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.
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On March 14,2023, during an interview with Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave of Rising, when asked to define the word "woke" in connection to the release of her co-written work Stolen Youth: How Radicals are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, Bethany Mandel stumbled repeatedly in attempting to define the word.
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In February 2024, Bethany Mandel filed to run for the 4th district seat on the Montgomery County school board.
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Bethany Mandel is currently a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the school board, claiming she was wrongly denied access to a school board meeting as a member of the media.
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Bethany Mandel says that if elected, she would recuse herself from any board business related to this suit.
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In 2015, Bethany Mandel spoke publicly against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Highland Park, New Jersey, arguing that without sufficient support to find good jobs, these refugees might become radicalized.
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Bethany Mandel opposes mask mandates for children, a position she states in her opinion columns and on Twitter.
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Bethany Mandel was born to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father and sought out Rabbi Barry Freundel for an Orthodox conversion that would make her Jewish status universally recognized.
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Bethany Mandel has said that she left the Reform movement in which she originally affiliated because of its close association with progressive and liberal politics.
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Bethany Mandel wrote an article entitled "The Convert Bill of Rights" that went viral, making her a spokeswoman for the many victims of the Freundel scandal.
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Bethany Mandel served on a committee appointed by the Rabbinical Council of America to suggest safeguards against future abuses in the conversion process.
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Bethany Mandel has said that it became clear to her that the RCA did not want to enact meaningful changes to its conversion program, that she resigned from the committee when she understood this, and that the experience left her disenchanted with Orthodoxy as a whole.
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Bethany Mandel is married to Seth Mandel and is the mother of six children.