Remembering Marshall J. Breger: Always Bright, Caring and Jewish

One very fond memory I will always have of Washington D.C. will be the lunches with three very accomplished friends: Allan Ryskind, my longtime boss and editor at Human Events; Dan Cohen, president and co-founder of Adhere+ a telehealth company and former U.S. House staffer lobbyist; and Marshall J. Breger, former official at the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush White Houses and scholar, lawyer, author, and genuine raconteur.

As the lone luncheon participant who was not Jewish, I was “charged” by the others with organizing our group, which they dubbed the “Only Jews But You Lunch.”

When I learned that Breger died on August 3, I was — to say the least — stunned. Then a professor at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, Marshall Jordan Breger seemed to be larger than life — weighing over 300 pounds, he was a big man with big ideas. Whether he was teaching a class, speaking on legal issues, or writing for the Middle East Quarterly or any one of a half-dozen law reviews, Breger always seemed to be in perpetual motion.

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