Ruthie Blum

Ruthie Blum is an American-Israeli journalist, columnist, former features editor of the Jerusalem Post, and web editor at The Algemeiner Journal . .Blum was formerly an advisor in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She is the senior contributing editor at The Jewish News Syndicate .

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.

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

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.

Published works To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring’