Ruthie Blum () is an American-Israeli journalist, columnist, former features editor of the ''

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,'' and web editor at ''The

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'' . Blum is the daughter of ''

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'' editor

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. She graduated from the

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in 1976 and immigrated to Israel in 1977. She has been described by left-wing journalist

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as "doyenne of the right-wing Bohemian set in Jerusalem." She was previously married to former

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News Editor-in-Chief Steve Leibowitz, during which time she lived in

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, an Israeli Settlement near Jerusalem. Blum has four children.Bush, Sharon, My Daughter, and Me
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Published works

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

References

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