[4] Mandel was raised by her mother[1] near Rochester, New York,[5] at times in poverty[6] and while receiving government support through "welfare, Medicaid, and food stamps.
[1] After reading about the Jay Pritzker Academy near Siem Reap in Cambodia, she wrote and asked to teach at the school, becoming a fifth grade teacher there for a year.
On March 15, the day following the interview, Mandel wrote an op-ed for Newsweek, stating that she was rattled by comments made by host Briahna Joy Gray that were "demeaning to parents in general in colorful and nasty terms.
It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the end point, enforced by an angry mob.
[15] Mandel edits the children's book series "Heroes of Liberty," which consists of biographies of right-wing cultural and political figures marketed to conservative families.
The books in this series avoid mention of issues that could cause discomfort to conservative parents, such as LGBTQ identities or the out-of-wedlock birth of Alexander Hamilton.
[16] In January 2022, a Facebook advertising account related to Heroes of Liberty was banned for violating the social network's "Low Quality or Disruptive Content" policy.
[25][26][27] In 2021, she criticized the Biden administration for not doing more to speedily resettle Afghan refugees in the U.S.[28] During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Mandel was outspoken in her opposition to the continuation of lockdowns after the initial month.
I'm not sacrificing my home, food on the table, all of our docs and dentists, every form of pleasure (museums, zoos, restaurants), all my kids' teachers in order to make other people comfortable.
[34] She has also said that it became clear to her that the RCA did not want to enact meaningful changes to its conversion program, that she resigned from the committee when she understood this, and that the experience left her disenchanted with Orthodoxy as a whole.