An Orthodox Jewish blogger is asking a judge to protect her anonymity from a Long Island elected official who has gone to court to identity the blogger.

The elected official, Pamela Greenbaum, a member of the school board for Lawrence, L.I., asked a state judge last month to force Google to identify the writer behind a popular Web log for the orthodox community in the Five Towns area.

The blog, orthomom.blogspot.com, featured a posting in January critical of Ms. Greenbaum’s position regarding the use by yeshiva students of public school facilities. In guest comments to the postings, Ms. Greenbaum has been called a “bigot.”

A lawyer for the blogger says the speech on the blog is protected by the First Amendment, according to legal papers filed yesterday in state court in Manhattan.

“It doesn’t seem to me that a school board member ought to be suing to find out the identity of her critics,” the lawyer, Paul Levy of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, said. “Harry Truman said, ‘If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen,’ What ever happened to that?”

Ms. Greenbaum has suggested that she intends to file a defamation lawsuit against either the blogger or commentators on the blog.