Ruthie Blum is an American-Israeli journalist, columnist, former features editor of the Jerusalem Post, and web editor at The Algemeiner Journal as of 2016[update].[1]
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.[2]
She has been described by left-wing journalist Craig Unger as "doyenne of the right-wing Bohemian set in Jerusalem."[3]
She was previously married to former Israel Broadcasting Authority News Editor-in-Chief Steve Leibowitz, during which time she lived in Har Adar, a suburb of Jerusalem. Blum has four children.[4]