Ruthie Blum

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Ruthie Blum is an American-Israeli journalist, columnist, former features editor of the Jerusalem Post, and web editor at The Algemeiner Journal as of 2016. [1]

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. [2]

She has been described by left-wing journalist Craig Unger as "doyenne of the right-wing Bohemian set in Jerusalem." [3]

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. [4]

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References

  1. "Ruthie Blum". Twitter . Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  2. “ Five Questions with Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2005
  3. 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
  4. Bush, Sharon, My Daughter, and Me