Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
A Particularly Happy Anniversary
JNS.org - One year ago today, on May 14, 2018, the United States officially transferred its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Although...
Jihadi Missiles, Israeli Mourning
JNS.org - Reeling after three days of nonstop rocket barrages from Gaza, and fully aware that the cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists is...
Jewish Violence: What the Gray Lady Knows It Need Not Fear
JNS.org - In response to the publication of an antisemitic cartoon in last Thursday’s international New York Times, protesters gathered outside the Manhattan office of the...
Netanyahu and Jewish Worry About What the Neighbors Might Think
JNS.org - A few days ahead of the Knesset elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria....
Turkey, Ukraine, and Israel: An Electoral Comparison Not to Take for Granted
JNS.org - Ahead of next week’s Knesset elections, Israelis disgusted with the ugliness of the current campaign would do well to consider the results of...
Israel’s Blessings and Curses
JNS.org - When Israelis awoke on Monday morning to the news that a house in Moshav Mishmeret, in the centrally located Sharon region, had been...
Don’t Forget Iran, Netanyahu Hasn’t
JNS.org - Israel’s Channel 12 led its prime-time news broadcast on Thursday night with a leaked report that Iran had hacked the cellphone of Blue...
The Palestinians Continue to Prove the Peace Fantasists Wrong
JNS.org - The Palestinians have been busy for the past week, demonstrating in word and deed that US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”...
False Hopes, Unwarranted Hysteria
JNS.org - When Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told Sky News Arabia on Monday that Washington’s yet-to-be-revealed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan includes a “redrawing of...
Palestinian ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Policy Will Continue, Despite Israel’s New Law
JNS.org - The Israeli security cabinet decided on Sunday to put into effect a law passed in July to deduct half a billion shekels (approximately...
Crime and Punishment, Israeli-Style
JNS.org - The debate over capital punishment for terrorists arose again in Israel after the body of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher was discovered in a forest...
IDF Leader’s Position on Soldiers’ Conduct in Judea and Samaria Deserves Scorn
JNS.org - In a letter to the officers under his command early this week, the head of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division declared that...
Is Israel’s Inevitable War With Iran Already Underway?
JNS.org - Israelis enjoying themselves on the slopes of the Mount Hermon ski resort in the Golan Heights were startled on Sunday afternoon to witness...
Netanyahu’s Welcome ‘Ambiguity’ Breach
JNS.org - In a virtually unprecedented move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Sunday that the IDF has been “working with impressive success to...
