Ruthie Blum
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum
Nuclear Deal-Breakers?
With less than three weeks to go before the P5+1 countries are slated to finalize the framework for a nuclear deal with Iran, an examination...
Two Unique Views of Israel
On Monday evening, after two and a half days of back-to-back lectures, panels, workshops and children's activities, Limmud Oz 2015 came to a close. Though...
What I Would Have Asked Obama
On Tuesday night, Israel's Channel 2 network aired an interview with U.S. President Barack Obama, conducted by respected Israeli journalist Ilana Dayan. This was yet...
A Palestinian Authority Peace Proposal?
In an interview on Sunday with the Washington Post's Lally Weymouth, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah spelled out his vision for peace with Israel. This...
Happy First Fatah-Hamas Anniversary
It has been a year since the Fatah-Hamas national unity government was sworn in, agreed upon by the warring Palestinian factions two months earlier. At...
What I Owe Jerusalem
I arrived in Jerusalem from New York in July 1977, 10 years after the Six-Day War, and three weeks after Menachem Begin took office as...
Melting Pot Miseries
The protests over the past week in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, sparked by the unprovoked beating of Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Damas Pakada at the hands of...
Communist Bedfellows
In 1983, four years after then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty, I became acquainted with a...
Nepal and the Palestinians
According to Wafa, the news agency that serves as the mouthpiece for the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas extended his condolences to the...
To Israel With Love
In his column in Haaretz on Wednesday, titled "Why I won't be celebrating Israel's Independence Day this year," Asher Schechter lists many reasons for his...
When Resilience Means Defeat
Every year at this time, Israelis reassert a vow never to forget the horrors of the Holocaust, in order to ensure they are not...
Lies, Damned Lies and a Fabricated Fatwa
On April 2, US President Barack Obama issued a statement on the "framework to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." The commander-in-chief was positively cheerful...
Time to Retain Our Freedom
All Jewish holidays can be invoked to serve as metaphors for current events. The same goes for the Bible as a whole. Indeed, with...
Antisemitism or Emasculation?
A few days ago, Jerusalem Post Managing Editor David Brinn posed a tongue-in-cheek challenge to his friends on Facebook, daring us to engage in a...
