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Another act of cold blooded violence against Jews unleashed, this time in the Rockies of Boulder Colorado. Another use of  incendiary devices meant to kill, maim and destroy. Another attempt to spread fear and terror. Another hateful incident ...

Thursday morning we awoke shaken and terrified. Our moorings of safety were ripped apart. A dagger slicing through  our hearts. The news reverberated all around us and throughout the world. Two young Israeli diplomats, about to be engaged, were ...

Jarring our celebration of the first night of Passover was the shocking news that the Governor's Mansion was set on fire by an intruder who lit homemade incendiary devices in the dining room, the same room in which the Governor and his extended ...

The Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, in cooperation with the Committee of Judges and Lawyers celebrated the 2024 Jewish Law Day on May 13th at The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Philadelphia, and it was considered a success by ...

Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Jen Coatsworth released a statement celebrating the Jewish community and condemning anti-Semitism at the conclusion of Yom HaShoah and as the U.S. begins its annual celebration of Jewish American Heritage ...

The Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, in cooperation with the Committee of Judges and Lawyers celebrated the 2023 Jewish Law Day on June 12th at The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Philadelphia, and it was considered a success by ...

The Chancellor and Officers of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society Invite you to attend Our Annual Chanukah Party Installation of Officers and Awarding of Scholarships On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. The Benjamin F. Levy Community ...

Fellow members: Please take a minute to read this excellent article providing a perspective from the Appellate Bench on the meaning of being Jewish to these jurists, most of whom are also members of the Brandeis Law Society. It is interesting to ...

Fellow Brandeis members, As we approach the one year anniversary of the tragedy at the Tree of Life synagogue, it is so important that we never forget. Therefore, I am encouraging all Brandeis members to participate in #showupforshabbat. B’shalom, ...

My First Trip to Israel In addition to celebrating the high holidays in the fall, we can also celebrate football. Here’s an interesting article about how one NFL player reconnected with his Jewish ...

Volpe and Koenig, P.C., is pleased to announce that Michael J. Berkowitz has joined the firm as a shareholder. Michael brings substantial experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including the preparation and prosecution of domestic ...

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics is seeking a highly motivated attorney with a commitment to promoting integrity in government to serve as a Staff Attorney. The Board of Ethics is an independent City of Philadelphia agency charged with ...

SAVE THE DATE! The Brandeis Law Society Annual Chanukah Party will be held this year on December 3, 2019 at 5:30pm at the National Museum of American Jewish History. We are very excited to announce that the Special Exhibit, focusing on Ruth Bader ...

The deadly shooting is a reminder that anti-Semitism has always simmered in America. - click here to read the blog entry!

For close to two decades, we have been blowing the whistle on the rising tide of anti-Semitism. When asked the source, our answer has always been the same: Look in three directions – the far left, the far right, and the jihadists. Too many in our ...

Mark Tarasiewicz, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association, was awarded the Thomas J. Birdsall Award by the Conference of County Bar Leaders of the Pennsylvania Bar Association during the Annual Seminar of the Conference of County Bar ...

While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths, the Green parties in North America are bizarrely preoccupied with boycotting the Jewish state. - click here to ...

Louis Brandeis graduated from the Harvard Law School at age 20 with the highest grade point average in that school’s history and, after other academic triumphs, was appointed Supreme Court justice. When Brandeis was studying law at Harvard, an ...

At the core of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS ) is economic warfare meant to delegitimize and marginalize Israel. - click here to read the blog entry!

Corey M. Miller a past Brandeis Fellow, was honored by VIP this month as an outstanding volunteer. Congratulations Corey for this well-deserved recognition.

Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t often speak publicly of his religious values, but on Sunday he reflected on Jewish precepts he learned as a boy and pondered how they might influence his work on the Supreme Court. - click here to read the blog entry!

Despite the conviction in Israel that its military actions against Hamas in Gaza are justified... - click here to read the blog entry!

My name is Avi Melamed. I'm an Independent Middle East Expert and Strategic Intelligence Analyst. - click here to read the blog entry!

Another misstep on the part of the US Administration, stemming from a misreading of the Middle Eastern map, results in the US government scrambling to do damage control. - click here to read the blog entry!

Tfail is a Lebanese enclave located in the Al-Kalmun mountain range in Syria about a mile away from the Lebanese border - click here to read the blog entry!

We are pleased to see that efforts continue to be made to aid in the recovery of Nazi-looted art by the governments of Germany and Israel. This article provides additional information about this continuing effort - click here to read the blog entry!

The Al-Anbar Province is the western part of Iraq - click here to read the blog entry!

Al-Qaeda announces it has no connection to ISIS - click here to read the blog entry!