Seth A. Mandel (born 1982) is an American Jewish author and editor who has served as senior editor for Commentary magazine. He previously worked as executive editor of the Washington Examiner print edition between 2018 and 2023 and as the op-ed editor of the New York Post.[ "Why I cant vote for Trump". www.washingtonexaminer.com. Accessed March 2, 2024.]
Early life and education
Mandel attended (the now-defunct) Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School in South River, New Jersey, then graduated from Rutgers University in 2004 with a degree in journalism and media studies.
Career
Upon graduation from Rutgers, Mandel began working as a newspaper reporter for the
East Brunswick Sentinel. Two years later, he was offered reporting jobs at four related newspapers:
The Jewish State,
The Jewish Journal,
The Speaker, and
Jewish Life of Hudson County. By the time these newspapers folded in July 2010, he was managing editor
of all four. In 2011, he moved to Washington, D.C., and became a National Security Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a national security and foreign policy think tank, and a journalism fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly known as the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. A year later, he returned to the New York area as assistant editor of
Commentary magazine. He then became op-ed editor of the
New York Post.
He has written for the New York Post, The Atlantic, RealClearPolitics, and Commentary magazine.
In 2013, several media outlets reported he was among a group of American conservative writers indirectly paid by the government for writing articles critical of the Anwar Ibrahim (Mandel received $5,500),
In October 2018, he was named executive editor of The Washington Examiner print edition.
Personal life
Mandel married
Bethany Mandel in 2011;
the couple have six children.
In 2017, he helped his wife deliver their third child in a
Nissan Altima, while en route to the hospital from their home in Highland Park, New Jersey.
[Amato, Jennifer. "Parents celebrate baby's birth at body shop", CentralJersey.com, May 2, 2017. Accessed September 28, 2018. "Little did Seth Mandel know that 10 years after leaving Greater Media Newspapers, a precursor of Newspaper Media Group, that his family would make its own headlines. Seth and his wife Bethany thought their third child was going to arrive on April 27, a day after Bethany's due date, so they headed from their home in Highland Park to the hospital in Princeton."] Mandel met his wife Bethany through friends she made at Rutgers University Hillel.
Bethany converted to
Orthodox Judaism in 2011.
Mandel is an Orthodox Jew.
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