Seth Mandel is Assistant Editor of Commentary magazine. He was a 2011 National Security Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Prior to that, Mandel was Managing Editor of The Jewish State, The Jewish Journal, and The Speaker, where he won Investigative Reporting awards for his coverage of the Second Lebanon War and the Iranian nuclear program, as well as Column Writing and Editorial Writing awards for his coverage of the Middle East. His work has also been published by National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, and many other publications. He lives with his wife Bethany Mandel, the social media associate at Commentary, in New York City.