Ruthie Blum
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum
Denouncing Israel’s Judicial Reforms Won’t Have the Effect Herzog Desires
JNS.org - Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s latest plea for judicial-reform compromise was more than merely impassioned. Indeed, his speech to the nation on Thursday evening...
The Unlearned Lessons of 9/11
JNS.org - Sunday marks the twenty-first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The magnitude of the audacious assault on key...
Crossing a Line in Coverage of the Tel Aviv Carnage
JNS.org – Reporters rushed to Tel Aviv on Thursday night to cover the shooting at the Ilka pub on Dizengoff Street. Less than half an...
Netanyahu Indictments Are Shifting Few Israeli Voters
According to a poll released this week by Israel Hayom, 64 percent of Israelis say that the indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit...
Turning Rabbi Firer’s Blessings Into a Feminist Curse
JNS.org - Leave it to Israelis to create and engage in a heated controversy where it need not exist. The brouhaha surrounding a benefit concert whose...
Primary Concerns and the Israeli Elections
JNS.org - It’s not a hot news flash that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the nemesis of the local left-wing media. Nor is it...
Israel, US Jews, and the Left-Right Rift
JNS.org - In an op-ed this week on the rift between American Jews and Israel, Haaretz’s Chemi Shalev compares the “troubled marriage” to a romantic union gone sour....
Terrorists and Tiaras
It is hard to feel sorry for Lebanese-Swede Amanda Hanna, who was stripped of her Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 title this week -- some nine...
The Downside of Victory
Though members of the anti-Donald Trump camp would die before admitting it, they are in a state of exhilaration over his presidency. Every time he...
Barcelona Is Not Charlottesville
Last weekend's car-ramming in Charlottesville, Virginia immediately became upstaged on Thursday when scores of people were mown down by a speeding van on a bustling...
Thanks to the Left
On Wednesday evening, thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv to demonstrate solidarity with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The purpose of the rally, organized...
Sex, Lies and Terrorism
A Nablus resident who confessed this week to having strangled, bashed in the head of, and buried his Israeli girlfriend two months ago told reporters...
A Tale of Two Israeli Heroes
Last Friday night, an Israeli soldier on leave for the weekend acted coolly and courageously, rushing to the rescue of neighbors he heard screaming. "Sgt....
Holy Terror, Turkish Delight
Leave it to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to portray his latest grab for regional relevance and power as a diplomatic effort to resolve a...
