Shoshana Bryen
Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center, may be contacted via shoshana.bryen@sdjewishworld.com.
What the rule says and Biden means
Is the Biden administration computer illiterate? Is it technology-innovation-unaware? Is it malicious when it comes to Israel? The third seems to be the case.
On its way out, the administration’s “Interim Final Rule on Artificial...
Where we’ve been, and why it matters
The collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria over the weekend sent me back to the Jewish Policy Center archive.
Incoming President Donald Trump is correct—who governs Damascus and its environs is not a choice...
Negotiating what with whom?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a decorated retired Army officer. He was supportive of Israel’s foray into Lebanon in the beginning. It would have been hard for him not to be, as...
The American back door
Israel’s magnificent operations last week eliminated and/or incapacitated thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, as well as eliminated members of the Radwan force who were planning an “Oct. 7-style” attack on Israeli citizens in the Galilee....
Israel has rights
Recently, I attended a dinner given by a major pro-Israel organization. It was the first since COVID and the turnout was great. There were old and new friends, Jews and non-Jews, Democrats and Republicans....
The Palestinians had a great Thanksgiving, Israel not so much
While you were still trying to figure out how to seat 12 people at a table for 10, seven-year-old Israeli Demir Ladigin and his brother were burying their father Michael. On the same day,...
Moving backwards
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides spoke before the conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel this week. He was charming and reassuring, and stressed the bipartisan nature of American government support...
Peace-processing like its 1993
In a meeting in May with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Biden administration priority “to continue to rebuild our relationship with the Palestinian people and the...
Focus on the King
The “Pandora Papers” is a trove of “private” financial information on 14 current heads of state, including those of the Czech Republic, Kenya, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Russia and Jordan. According to The Washington Post, “The files detail more than...
3 Takeaways from Afghanistan for Us at Home
First, remember our troops, living and dead, who served the United States in Afghanistan since 2001. They are owed our gratitude for their steadfast presence in a difficult country and our help as they and...