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[2] and as the op-ed editor of the New York Post.[3] Mandel has been described as an American conservative aligned with the Never Trump movement.[4]
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.[5]
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[6] 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.[5] He then became op-ed editor of the New York Post.[7]
He has written for the New York Post, The Atlantic, RealClearPolitics, and Commentary magazine.[8] In 2017, The New York Times named him one of three writers "From the Right" recommended to their readers,"[9] while Paste Magazine named him one of "The 25 Best Never Trump Conservatives to Follow on Twitter."[10] He has also been interviewed on NPR as a prominent "Never Trump" conservative.[11]
In 2013, several media outlets reported he was among a group of American conservative writers indirectly paid by the Malaysian government for writing articles critical of the Malaysian opposition leadership (Mandel received $5,500),[12][13] and had not disclosed this payment at the time his writing was published.[14]
In October 2018, he was named executive editor of The Washington Examiner print edition.[15][16]
^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."
^Makin, Cheryl (2016-06-02). "Rutgers Hillel honors legacy, leaders, rising stars at gala". Courier News and Home Tribune. Retrieved 2021-08-16. In 2006, Bethany went on a Birthright trip with Rutgers Hillel and extended her stay for the summer studying Hebrew and Israeli history, which contributed to her decision to convert to Orthodox Judaism in 2011.
^Mandel, Seth (2013-12-27). "The Diaspora's Stake in Conservative Judaism". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-16. I say this as an Orthodox Jew, but one who spent a portion of his childhood in Conservative shuls, day schools, and youth groups.
