Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
Iran’s Military Gears Up for Vienna Talks by Vowing to Annihilate Israel
JNS.org - Renewed negotiations over a return to or revision of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—the nuclear deal between Iran and world...
Bennett’s Big Twitter Blunder
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chose a particularly inopportune moment to enrage disgruntled voters. Though a member of his staff was likely responsible...
A Turkish Hostage Crisis in the Making?
JNS.org - The arrest in Turkey last week of an innocent Israeli couple on holiday illustrates the utter uselessness of diplomacy when dealing with evil...
They’re Terrorists, Not ‘Security prisoners’
JNS.org - How do news outlets love to portray the recent “great escape” from Israel’s Gilboa Prison? Let us count the ways. The first is to...
Iranian Aggression and Israel’s Fragile Coalition
JNS.org - At the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the country’s security situation. Referring to the Israel...
American Immigrants Who Leave Israel Don’t Deserve Disdain
JNS.org - On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his parents’ aliyah from the United States, Haaretz political correspondent Chaim Levinson paid homage to...
How Do You Say Déjà Vu in Farsi?
JNS.org - Protesters screaming “Death to the Dictator” began taking to the streets of Tehran on Monday, after rallies elsewhere in Iran erupted a earlier...
Biden’s Reward to UNRWA for Bad Behavior
JNS.org - The United States transferred $135 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday. This was in...
Of Stars, Stripes and Red Flags
JNS.org - Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid was ridiculed on Sunday for a blooper in a tweet about the Fourth of July. In the post,...
Lapid, Don’t Count on Courting Democrats
JNS.org - Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid seems pleased about his meeting on Sunday in Rome with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Like his...
Washington Doublethink and the Iran Deal
JNS.org - The administration in Washington outdid itself in doublethink this week. Faced with the election of mass executioner Ebrahim Raisi to the Iranian presidency,...
Comic Relief From a Serious Israeli Drama
JNS.org - The sight on Sunday night of the trendy Tel Aviv set celebrating the new Israeli government with great fanfare—flags and all—was nothing short...
Antisemitism at Rutgers Isn’t All Academic
JNS.org - It’s a little hard to combat a phenomenon by kowtowing to its promoters, but leave it to academia to make a feeble attempt...
Heading to New York With Trepidation and a Star of David
JNS.org - I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m actually nervous—as a Jew—about my upcoming trip from Tel Aviv to New York. For...
