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.”
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By Bethany Mandel
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Opinion Wieseltier Was Once ‘Appalled’ By Freundel’s Mikveh-Peeping. So Beware The White Knight.
Working as a conservative writer, I’ve noticed a certain kind of individual over the years. This type is an unmarried activist -– male or female — past the mid-30s who has spent his or her entire career loudly decrying the danger “the gays” pose to our society. When I come across this type on Twitter…
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Opinion Why The #NeverTrump Movement Died Last November 9
One year after the election, divisions among Republicans are as deep as ever. Appalled by President Trump’s buffoonery, the #NeverTrump wing of the conservative wing is just as alienated from the pro-Trump, #MAGA (Make America Great Again) constituency as it was in 2016, and the resentment between the two camps is splintering the conservative movement…
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Opinion Anti-Semitic trolls are targeting Ben Shapiro’s sister and it’s horrifying
When Abigail Shapiro opened her computer one morning last week, she was shocked to see a flood of anti-Semitic and misogynist messages across her YouTube channel and coming in via a contact form on her website. Abigail isn’t a controversial public figure or a journalist; she’s a 24-year-old opera singer. But she has the misfortune…
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Opinion I’m a Conservative Jewish woman and I oppose Quebec’s new burqa ban
Earlier this year, I wrote about a town in New Jersey called Mahwah, where tensions have erupted between Orthodox Jews and their non-Jewish or nonreligious neighbors. Things were getting so bad that a group called Mahwah Strong formed, devoting itself to keeping the town “diverse.” That diversity didn’t extend to Hasidic Jews, which many in…
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Opinion Why Jews Especially Should Respect Trump’s Birth Control Rollback
Last week, the Trump administration decided to rollback the 2010 Obamacare mandate on birth control, which required employers to cover birth control as part of their healthcare plans. According to the new rules from the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, employers can now request exemptions from providing birth control if doing so…
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Opinion North Korea Has Exposed The Left’s Weakness For Dictators
Several weeks ago, I was honored at a gala for an organization called Liberty in North Korea. The organization rescues North Korean refugees living in hiding in China, and resettles them in South Korea or the U.S. to prevent them from being forcibly repatriated to North Korea. Over the course of the last five years,…
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Opinion Is It Way Too Expensive To Become A Jew?
This essay is part of our ongoing series, Outside the Bubble: Class and Inequality in the Jewish Community. It explores the class divides in Jewish communities of all denominations, and the financial struggles that belonging to these communities can incur. Please email your thoughts and essays to batya@forward.com. In the world of Orthodox converts, there’s…
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Opinion We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis
What I’m about to suggest in this column is something I’m not sure I have the moral fortitude to actually carry out in my own adult life. But before I share this perhaps painfully naive idea, I’d like to tell you a story from my childhood. Riding the bus one afternoon, a girl in another…
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