Ruthie Blum
Ruthie Blum (Hebrew: רותי בלום) is an American-Israeli journalist, columnist, former features editor of the Jerusalem Post, and web editor at The Algemeiner Journal as of 2016[update].[1].Blum was formerly an advisor in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She is the senior contributing editor at The Jewish News Syndicate as of 2025[update].[2]
Blum is the daughter of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1976 and immigrated to Israel in 1977.[3]
She has been described by left-wing journalist Craig Unger as "doyenne of the right-wing Bohemian set in Jerusalem."[4]
She was previously married to former Israel Broadcasting Authority News Editor-in-Chief Steve Leibowitz, during which time she lived in Har Adar, an Israeli settlement near Jerusalem. Blum has four children.[5]
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[edit]- ↑ "Ruthie Blum". Twitter. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ "Ruthie Blum". Retrieved 25 January 2026.
- ↑ “ Five Questions with Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2005
- ↑ The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future, Craig Unger, 2007, p. 163
- ↑ Bush, Sharon, My Daughter, and Me
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