Bethany Mandel

Silver Spring

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Wife to @sethamandel | Journalist & co-author of bestselling book Stolen Youth | Homeschooling mom to 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦰🧑🏻 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦰👶

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Articles

'Bad Influence' is just another vehicle for child fame

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Bethany Mandel

A group of young performers joined a YouTube channel in 2022 to market themselves as rising stars. The group, formerly known as “The Squad,” later filed a lawsuit against Tiffany Smith, the mother and manager of YouTube influencer Piper Rockelle, the group’s de facto leader. The suit included disturbing allegations. Smith was accused of sending her preteen daughter’s underwear to adult men and forcing the children to work grueling hours without breaks to create viral content.
DC rabbi harassed by pro-Palestinian protesters while praying for hostages wins $182K

2 weeks ago | ynetnews.com | Daniel Edelson |Bethany Mandel

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Proxy voting for new moms makes motherhood look like weakness

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Bethany Mandel

In recent days, babies have taken center stage at the US Capitol, carried by their congresswoman mothers advocating for a rule change to allow proxy voting for new parents. Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Republican from Florida, and Brittany Pettersen, Democrat from Colorado, crossed the aisle to propose that House members be allowed twelve weeks to delegate their votes after childbirth.
Proxy voting for new moms makes motherhood look like weakness

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Bethany Mandel

In recent days, babies have taken center stage at the US Capitol, carried by their congresswoman mothers advocating for a rule change to allow proxy voting for new parents. Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Republican from Florida, and Brittany Pettersen, Democrat from Colorado, crossed the aisle to propose that House members be allowed twelve weeks to delegate their votes after childbirth.
Stop criminalizing childhood freedom

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Bethany Mandel

My 11-year-old daughter and her friends need pedometers. I want to know how many steps these girls are clocking on an average day. They’re walking everywhere, to each other’s houses, the local pizza shop, the nail salon — all over the neighborhood. I give my children this freedom very mindfully: I want them to be confident, resourceful, and independent. Once, another mother wanted to have her daughter join a walk the girls were taking to the pizza shop.
The left keeps coming after our kids — now via YouTube’s Ms. Rachel

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Bethany Mandel

She's the Mister Rogers of today's toddler set -- but unlike him, Ms. Rachel's wildly popular content sneaks in invariably leftist political themes. YouTube/@msrachel Most parents my age grew up believing that Mister Rogers was speaking directly to us in our living rooms.
Total recall: Administrative overreach stifles small businesses and limits mothers’ choices

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Bethany Mandel

When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby rockers — all manner of vessels that could contain her little body so I could do things like go to the bathroom, cook dinner, or simply give my tired arms a break. Shopping for a relative’s baby registry recently, I was struck by how few of the items that granted me sanity in my early days of motherhood are available to today’s mothers.
When I Am Down for Mommy Shaming

4 weeks ago | themomwars.substack.com | Bethany Mandel

I was never one of those people who viscerally hated Hilaria Baldwin, Alec Baldwin’s wife. Sure, she’s always been a bit of a performance artist—we all know it. Born Hilary in Boston, she somehow adopted this oddly charming persona where she pretends to be Spanish. It’s like watching a one-woman play that never ends. Honestly, I found the whole act kind of entertaining. She even committed to the bit so fully that she gave all her children Spanish-sounding names. This post is for paid subscribers
Ben & Jerry's owner Unilever is dropping the anti-Israel lunacy

1 month ago | lucianne.com | Bethany Mandel

Original ArticlePosted By: Mercedes44, 3/22/2025 6:23:54 AMBen & Jerry's Phish Food got me through untold breakups in college. Drowning my sorrows in a pint was a great consolation prize for my heartbreak. But in 2021, I soured on the brand when it announced plans to stop selling its ice cream in what it referred to as the "Occupied Palestinian Territory." Its hostility to Israeli policy grew even more poisonous after Oct. 7. The good news?
Ben & Jerry's owner Unilever is moving away from the ice-cream maker's anti-Israel lunacy

1 month ago | nypost.com | Bethany Mandel

Protesters demonstrating against Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream's decision to stop selling its products in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, at the New York Public Library. Getty Images Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food got me through untold breakups in college.