Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum / JNS.org

Terror in Jerusalem, PLO Flags in Tel Aviv
JNS.org - Neither the terrorist slaughter of seven Jewish worshipers and the wounding of three others in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, nor the near-fatal shooting...

Kudos to ‘The Wall Street Journal’ for Demonstrating Integrity about Israeli Democracy
JNS.org - Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for defending the new Israeli government’s judicial-reform plan. It takes guts for a news outlet to go...

Lapid’s Lament: ‘There’s Only One Truth, and the Rest is a Lie’
JNS.org - In a lengthy screed on Thursday in the Hebrew daily Haaretz, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid impressed upon like-minded members of the public...

An Israel Prize Laureate’s Anti-Government Stance Reveals a Sinister View of the Jewish State
JNS.org - Anyone still puzzled by the outcome of the Nov. 1 Knesset elections should listen to professor Asa Kasher’s interview on Sunday with Kan...

The Making of a Palestinian Martyr
JNS.org - For the powers-that-be in the Palestinian Authority, the death on Sunday night of 16-year-old Jana Zakarneh couldn’t have come at a better time,...

No, Hady Amr Is Not ‘Our Friend’
JNS.org - Mere hours after the announcement on Tuesday that the US deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli and Palestinian affairs had been promoted...

The False ‘Holon-Hebron’ Parallel Promoted by Israeli Progressives and Other Sore Losers
JNS.org - Outgoing Israeli Transportation Minister and Labor Party chair Merav Michaeli opened her latest faction meeting with a false parallel. “There’s a direct line between...

Judgment Day for Israel’s Legal System
JNS.org - Nationwide outrage over the light sentence meted out by the Beersheva Juvenile Court last Wednesday to a Bedouin who sodomized a little girl...

Let’s Replace the Term ‘National Unity’ with ‘Majority Rule’
JNS.org – Once his formal consultations with each party in the Knesset came to a close on Friday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog was left with...

The Danger of Another Israeli Electoral Deadlock
JNS.org - Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s falsely dubbed “center left” Labor Party, doesn’t even bother these days to temper the radicalism...

Israel’s Far-Left Is No Better Than the Anti-Zionist Arab Parties
JNS.org - One campaign mantra of the camp of Israeli opposition and Likud leader Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu ahead of the Nov. 1 Knesset election is...

A Political Ploy to Curb Free Speech
JNS.org - In an act of chutzpah characteristic of the Israeli left, Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party has petitioned the Central Elections Committee...

Benny Gantz’s Anti-Netanyahu Rosh Hashanah Message
JNS.org – In weekend interviews ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz made a statement that explains his poor showing in...

Ebrahim Raisi’s Predictable ‘60 Minutes’ Performance
JNS.org - The brouhaha surrounding Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s comments about the Nazi genocide of the Jews, during an interview that aired on Sunday with...