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Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen
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Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center, may be contacted via shoshana.bryen@sdjewishworld.com. 

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Watershed Moment for the Middle East

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Israel’s new agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, new agreements for airline overflights of countries with which Israel has no new peace or economic pacts, a new aviation agreement with Jordan...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Visiting Auschwitz is not the answer

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American Jews are making a mistake. When Philadelphia Eagles football player DeSean Jackson made blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, Jewish Patriots player Julian Edelman invited him to visit Auschwitz. In fact, Jackson has accepted an invitation from Edward Mosberg, a...

Is Iran going home?

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If you are Iran, it seems, 2020 is not your year. Aside from the devastation of the Wuhan virus, Iraq closed its 1,000-mile southern border with Iran for “security reasons” after months of Iraqi protests...
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Imperial Iran faces troubles at home and abroad

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Since December 2017, a sort of “rolling rebellion” has been occurring across Iran. It is bigger, deeper and stronger than the Green Revolution of 2009 and taking place in great measure outside Tehran, where...

How U.S. benefits from alliance with Israel

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One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial, and worth every nickel spent on it. It is well–grounded...

How U.S. benefits with Israel as its strategic partner

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One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial and worth every nickel spent on it. It is well–grounded...
Ilhan Omar speaking at a VoteRunLead training. Credit: Zoe Griffing Heller via Wikimedia Commons.

No Rep. Omar, Iran troubles didn’t start with Trump

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For Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the world must start fresh every day. That would explain her ignorance on Iran. “None of this would be happening if Trump didn’t back out of the Iran nuclear...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner at the start of a meeting in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

How Bahrain Conference can lead to peace

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The return of Israel to election mode is no reason to change the Trump administration’s plans for the U.S.-led economic conference set for Bahrain in late June. The Palestinian decision to boycott the meeting...
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A justifiable revolution in Venezuela

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The Russian- and Cuban-supported Maduro regime is getting bolder in attempts to crush the people of Venezuela.  It is now working to block aid from coming across the border to the starving citizens. Some of...
Police escort a Palestinian charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court, on Feb. 11, 2019. The suspect was captured hiding in Ramallah after Israeli forces investigated the scene where the young woman was found dead last week in Ein Yael, in the outskirts of Jerusalem. Photo Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

A terrorist too brutal even for the P.A.

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) finally found a terrorist act committed by a Palestinian against an Israeli from which it wishes to disassociate. The horrific rape and knife murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher prompted Qadura...