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 Is It Wrong To Want Ultra-Orthodox Jews To Stay Out Of Your Town?
Recently, residents of Mahwah, New Jersey, noticed utility trucks driving around town, attaching strange-looking PVC piping to telephone poles. Soon they learned their purpose: the establishment of an eruv, a mysterious boundary that makes it possible for Torah-observant Jews to carry objects on the Sabbath. It’s a crucial step in making a neighborhood inviting to…
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Opinion Stop Outing Nazis. Your Rights Depend On Theirs
This week my friend Emily learned an uncomfortable truth about a former law school classmate. It turns out he’s a white nationalist, one who believes that her interacial marriage makes her a race traitor (she’s white and her husband is Asian). This personal reveal came just after the white supremacist rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville this weekend,…
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Opinion CNN Was Wrong to Fire Jeffrey Lord
How does one add the word “former” to the job description “CNN commentator?” For the network’s earliest Donald Trump supporter, it only took one tweet. This week, Jeffrey Lord was shown the door after he tweeted the Nazi salutation — “Sieg Heil!” — while embroiled in a battle with a liberal activist. No one likes…
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Opinion I Wrote About The Opioid Crisis In The Jewish Community. The Response Was Overwhelming.
Yesterday, I published a piece in these pages on the opioid epidemic and how it has affected the Jewish community. When I shared the piece on social media, I explained what has drawn me to covering this crisis. When I was 19 years old and a sophomore in college, my father committed suicide. We discovered…
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Opinion It’s Time To Admit That The Opioid Crisis Is Also A Jewish One
Earlier this month, the 5 Towns Jewish Times published a shocking statistic: Since October 2016, over 100 young people from New York’s Orthodox community had died from drug overdoses. One 10-day span saw five deaths. “It is a scourge that is inflicting our community in a most shocking and unexpected way,” the author of the…
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Opinion Orthodox Town Has Jewish Obligation To Shame Fraudsters In Its Midst
Residents of Lakewood, New Jersey, knew the hammer was about to fall. According to news reports, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato informed the community two years ago that community residents were involved in abuse of welfare programs, and warned that authorities would be taking action. On Monday, that warning came to pass. In what was…
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Opinion Israel Trip Gives Trump A Boost With His Jewish Supporters
The Forward’s editor-in-chief Jane Eisner recently posed a simple question for Jewish supporters of President Donald Trump: Had enough yet? She elaborated: It should be obvious by now that this is a president who cannot and will not keep his word. Perhaps you, his supporters, still will give him a pass. He’s surely not the…
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Opinion What Does It Mean To Be Jewish And Pro-Life?
Recently at March For Life, an annual rally held in Washington, D.C., I hoped to meet and write about other pro-life Jewish marchers. The record-setting crowd was thick and palpably upbeat after the election of Donald Trump and his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. With Donald Trump’s latest threats to defund the…
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