Ruthie Blum is an American-Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i journalist, columnist and former features editor of the Jerusalem Post.

Ruthie Blum-Leibowitz is the daughter of Commentary

Commentary (magazine)

Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becoming a strong voice for the...

 editor Norman Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz

Norman B. Podhoretz is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.-Early life:The son of Julius and Helen Podhoretz, Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia, Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn...

. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science

Bronx High School of Science

The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx...

 in 1976 and immigrated to Israel in 1977.

She has been described by left-wing journalist Craig Unger

Craig Unger

Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. He grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Harvard University. His most recent book is The Fall of the House of Bush, about the internal feud in the Bush family and the rise and collusion of the neoconservative and Christian right in Republican party...

 as “doyenne of the right-wing Bohemian set in Jerusalem.”

In September, 2008 she married IBA News Editor-in-Chief Steve Leibowitz. The marriage took place at Kraft Family Stadium in Jerusalem. They live in the West Bank settlement of Har Adar.