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: sbryen@jewishpolicycenter.org
Phone: (202) 638-2411
Twitter: @ShoshanaBryen
It’s Not Just Talk with Iran
Two tropes came out of the meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – it was a great meeting for Israel, and it was a terrible meeting for Israel. The “great meeting” people note the warm welcome and the fact that Netanyahu was having his second meeting with the President. The “terrible […]
Kontorovich: International Criminal Court Bashes Israel in Effort to Justify Its Own Existence
JPC Senior Director Shoshana Bryen was invited by sister organization The RJC to host its program on April 8 with Eugene Kontorovich. Summary: The International Criminal Court (ICC), established in 1998, was intended to prosecute the worst violations of human rights when national governments fail to act. Like many other international institutions, the ICC was […]
The Gaza Protests: ‘We Want to Live’
The parade of Palestinians marching against Hamas has begun in North Gaza. It hasn’t been covered widely in the media, mainly because it raises uncomfortable questions in the West. Is this what happens when Israel makes it safe for Palestinians to march against Hamas? Is it what happens when people suddenly realize they have lost […]
