Bethany Mandel is a contributing writer for Deseret News and is a home-schooling, stay-at-home mother of six. She is the co-author of “Stolen Youth” and an editor for the patriotic children’s book series “Heroes of Liberty.”
Bethany Mandel
By Bethany Mandel
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Opinion Yeshiva U.’s Likely New President Will Keep School on Track — Toward Financial Ruin
If you’re about to apply for college starting in the fall, will your school of choice still be around to confer a diploma in four years’ time? Students considering applying to Yeshiva University for admission next year may want to think long and hard about that question. Here are a few sample headlines about the…
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Opinion I Refuse To Let Insane Day School Tuition Price My Kids Out of Orthodoxy
It’s that time of year again: My Facebook newsfeed is filled with smiling kids in back-to-school photos. This is the first year I’ve seen my friends’ children, who are the same age as my oldest, heading off to school. While many have been sent off to daycare prior, for the first time my daughter’s peers…
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Opinion Donald Trump Hiring Breitbart Exec Is Slap in Face for Targeted Jews Like Me
Donald Trump hires the best people. At least, that’s the prayer his supporters — who hope his Supreme Court picks will save the Court from being dominated by liberals for a generation — are holding onto. In an effort to shake up his campaign after weeks of plummeting polls, Trump did what all politicians in the same…
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Opinion After Orthodox-Only Mikveh Law, Time To Rein In the Israeli Rabbinate
As a woman who underwent Orthodox conversion, I was livid when I read about the controversial Israeli bill that was formally passed into law July 25. The bill allows local Orthodox rabbinates to ban non-Orthodox conversions in publicly funded mikvehs. The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party may have introduced this piece of legislation, but in…
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Opinion Laura Ingraham Didn’t Do a Heil Hitler — and Saying She Did Is Part of the Problem
We Republicans have a great deal of work on our hands to fathom how we nominated the worst Presidential nominee in American history and then how we let him lead our party over a cliff in Cleveland this week. Liberals, however, have some self-reflection to do as well. It couldn’t have been more evident than…
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Opinion Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Would Have Schooled Donald Trump at the Republican Convention — If You’d Let Him
Nechama Liss-Levinson wrote an impassioned piece in these pages last week, demanding of the rabbi at the Ramaz School (her daughter’s alma mater), “Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, How Can You Shill for Donald Trump at Republican Convention?” Liss-Levinson, a Manhattan psychologist, has presumably never attended a political convention, either Democratic or Republican. If she had, she…
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Opinion Donald Trump Sinks to New Level of Absurdity With ‘Frozen’ Tweet
Nothing’s sacred anymore in this election cycle. Not even Elsa and Anna. The two beloved characters from the Disney movie “Frozen” were the subjects of a Wednesday night tweet by Donald Trump. He wanted to know why nobody was kicking up a fuss over the six-pointed star on a bit of “Frozen” merchandise. He wrapped…
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Opinion Donald Trump Hires the ‘Best’ People — for Following the Anti-Semitic Twitterverse
Prior to this weekend, Donald Trump had a degree of plausible deniability regarding anti-Semitism, both personally and from his campaign. While many of Trump’s legions of online supporters are explicitly (and viciously) anti-Semitic, Trump himself had little to do with them beyond his Twitter account retweeting things from accounts with #WhiteGenocide in their profiles. On…
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