Shoshana Bryen
Senior Director
Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center and Editor of inFOCUS Quarterly. A leading specialist in U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs, she is the former Executive Director and Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA. She has worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and lectured at the National Defense University in Washington.
Mrs. Bryen coordinated programs in the Middle East for military professionals that allowed more than 450 American military officers to engage in professional discussions of issues that both unite and divide the United States, Israel, and Jordan. She also created a program to take the cadets and midshipmen of America’s service academies to Israel for a three-week work/study program that has permitted hundreds of future officers to have a positive, in-depth experience in Israel. She has taken Turkish and Israeli military officers to speak at the service academies and has lectured in the academies as well.
She runs a weekly webinar series for the Jewish Policy Center and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Daily Caller, the New York Sun and Defense News, among other outlets.
Mrs. Bryen is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Aleethia Foundation that provides opportunities for wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and is a Member of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Committee.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (202) 638-2411
Twitter: @ShoshanaBryen
Israel Has Rights Beyond The ‘Right To Exist’
NY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told listeners of the first mayoral debate, “I believe Israel has a right to exist” — but, according to the NY Post, when the moderator prompted, “as a Jewish state?” he replied merely, “as a state with equal rights.” Friends of Israel got angry over the wrong part of the answer. Mamdani wants Israel […]
Video: America – Allies and Adversaries
JPC Senior Director Shoshana Bryen was pleased to be invited to interview FDD President Clifford May at the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership meeting in Washington, DC on June 12, 2025. Because it preempted our usual podcast, we’re happy to bring you a video of their conversation..
This Is the Actual Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
The humanitarian aid situation in Gaza has been receiving overwhelming media coverage lately. While it was a good military move to stop Hamas-controlled food trucks from entering Gaza, Israel should have expected the world’s PR machine would be turned against it — even though there has never been an actual famine or anything close to […]