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Shoshana Bryen

Senior Director

ShoshanaShoshana 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: sbryen@jewishpolicycenter.org
Phone: (202) 638-2411
Twitter: @ShoshanaBryen

Articles By Shoshana Bryen

Attacks Have Consequences: Israel Responds to Yemen

July 21, 2024

Hodeida, Yemen, a port operated by Houthi terrorists is burning. Israel bombed a large weapons depot there. The strike was retaliation for a drone strike on Tel Aviv by the Houthis, who were likely aiming for the US Consulate located adjacent to the beach. The drone missed by about 1,000 feet and instead hit an […]

Trump’s Speech Offers Breath of Fresh Air for Israel

July 20, 2024

Israel didn’t take up a lot of room in former President Donald J. Trump’s nomination acceptance speech. It didn’t have to. The entire convention was a pro-Israel rally, from speeches by Ronen and Orna Neutra, parents of American hostage in Gaza Omer Neutra, to the buoyant Republican Matthew Brooks and disillusioned Democrat Shabbos Kestenbaum, to chants and prayers. The […]

Biden Stumbled — But Not The Way You Thought

July 15, 2024

After President Joe Biden’s Thursday press conference, most people appeared to have fixated on the gaffes. Okay, that is fun. But the president appeared to know exactly (or mostly) what he wanted to say about the Middle East; he didn’t stumble and he could be heard clearly. And that is the problem — to the extent […]