Ruthie Blum
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum
British Feminism, Jihadi-Style
Aqsa Mahmood is young woman from Scotland. The daughter of Pakistani-born parents who built a successful business in the U.K., she grew up with...
A Tragedy of Good and Evil
When Steven Sotloff was abducted last summer while crossing the border between Turkey and Syria, serious efforts were made on the part of colleagues,...
Their Sons Did Not Die in Vain
Tuesday's ambiguous, open-ended cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas felt like a huge let-down. Up until the very last minute (and even after it...
The Foley Beheading and Israel’s PR Problem
The video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley went viral this week, in "Žspite of Twitter and YouTube efforts to remove it...
Divorce the Personal From the Collective
The brouhaha surrounding the wedding reception of a Jaffa couple on Sunday evening is yet another example of ideology gone haywire. In this case,...
Demonstrate Sovereignty, Not Solidarity
Until Thursday evening's rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, the last time I participated in a demonstration was in 2005. And though the two...
Of Rocks and a Hard Place
The sound of the boom was so startling that we yelped in unison. Luckily, our taxi driver swerved only slightly. Had he lost control...
Pillay’s Dastardly ‘Doublethink’
On Thursday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay accused Israel of "deliberate defiance" of its obligations under international law....
Let’s Not Lose Sight of Iran
On Thursday evening, Reuven Rivlin was sworn in as Israel's 10th president. Due to incessant rocket fire into Israel and the war going on...
Hot Mic, Cold Shoulder
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is coming to Israel on Tuesday, following a visit to "ŽCairo to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi...
Maternal Cognitive Dissonance
On Thursday night, after 10 days of aerial warfare between Hamas terrorists and Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a ground incursion into Gaza....
Opinion: Talk of Peace Always Leads to War
After a light-hearted exchange about the chance of reaching our destination without getting hit by a missile barrage, my taxi driver's tone darkened. "Tell me...
Selective Self-Flagellation
On June 11, the day before the kidnapping of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, a resident of Moshav Yashresh named...
Murder and Mothers’ Milk
During the wee hours of Wednesday morning, 16-year-old Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir was forced into a car by two men near his home in...
