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Western life.
/-D We picked grapes, lay in the sun
and partied; took intensive Hebrew
\ classes and innumerable trips to every
scorner of the country - from Metulla
to Eilat and the ruins of Beit Shean
to the chic Dizengoff Center, from
the top of Masada to the spring
where General Gideon tested his men
"-cor battle. We learned Hebrew songs
land danced Israeli dances with the
'locals. Was it any wonder that I fell
in love with Israel?
• We had long discussions after we
returned home. What was the right
thing to do? Live in Israel and make
our contribution there or stay in
America and do our piece to
strengthen the American Jewish corn-
munity? At 15 and 16, most of us
[nought in terms of right and wrong.

But I can still hear my friend's voice
saying, "We should live wherever
we're happiest."
In the end, 28 years on, I moved
to Israel not because I felt I should
but because I wanted to. I wanted to
live in a place where I felt connected
with the woman crossing the street;
where I feel connected to my history;
where the boundaries between
friends, between family members,
even between neighbors are less firm-
ly drawn; and where people are more
a part of each other's lives.
I don't know how you'd feel,
grandfather, about your left-leaning,
feminist but still very Jewish grand-
daughter. But I've come back. I've
drawn one more loop in the spiral of
exile and return.

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An old-style
with a
fascination.

- T enta

/- • In 1989, when Ms. Blum's twins
were born, David Bar-Illan — who
had been her next-door neighbor in
New York — became editor of the
\_T7usalem Post, and the time was ripe
'to make a second go of things. Strike
two. "That's not really appropriate
for our paper," he told her. Not one
to give up easily, Blum kept pressur-
ing Bar-Illan (now Prime Minister
)Binyamin Netanyahu's media adviser)
ntil he agreed to give it a try.

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,The 'Dear Ruthie' Column
Gives Israelis Sage Advice

A for Adultery, Z for Zionism,"
l
/reads the table of contents in Dear
Ruthie, a compilation of advice
columns penned by Manhattan-born
Ruthie Blum for her weekly column
\ -; the Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-
language daily.
Ms. Blum, who came to Israel in
1977 for her junior year of college
` , -id fell in love with the country,
decided to transfer from the
University of Chicago to finish her
degree in English literature at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She
wrote sporadically for the Jerusalem
, ost and upon graduation took jobs
working with the Jewish Agency and
foreign press in Israel, taking time
out
__. to get married and have four
nildren.
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"Dear Ruthie," the column, was
an immediate hit. In the introduc-
tion, she presents her credentials: "I
am an old-style yenta with a degree
in literature and a degree of fascina-
tion with other people's lives which
might be deemed excessive in certain
circles." Not in Israel, however.
Letters poured in from all over the
country, penned mostly by native
English speakers or Europeans and,
surprisingly, by equal numbers of
men and women. A Holocaust sur-
vivor wrote about his double life and
the problems he encountered divid-
ing his time between his wife and his
mistress, who had just given birth to
their baby. A young Israeli women
whose parents moved to California
when she was a baby, asked how to
deal with her parents' anger over her
decision to return to Israel and enlist
in the army.
In offering advice, Blum steers
away from giving direct answers, pre-
ferring to offer the writer with several
options. She is never at a loss for
what to say, either. "I have never felt
that I don't know how to answer a
question, because I don't provide
solutions to problems," explains
Blum. "I try to present possible sce-
narios that could ensue depending on
various choices they would make."
Such is Blum's success that she has
just been given a consumer complaints
corner titled "Caveat Emptor", in
which she addresses consumer gripes
and tackles government bureaucracy
and leading Israeli companies.

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