Louis D. Brandeis Law Society

09/10/2025

Join the us for a Happy Hour with the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association at Bochetto & Lentz, P.C. on Thursday, September 18, 2025!

Register today:

Join the YLD and Brandeis Law Society at Bochetto & Lentz, 1524 Locust St., for an evening of connection and conversation at our happy hour. This gathering offers the opportunity to expand your professional network and strengthen relationships with colleagues across the legal community. Enjoy drinks...

06/21/2025

A good time was had by all on Tues., June 17, 2025 at the 41st Annual Jewish Law Day celebration with The Brandeis Law Society of Philadelphia!

Thanks to our organization’s sponsors and Jewish Law Day Committee members!

02/26/2025

Wed., March 5, 2025 - 7 PM
Meet survivors after a FREE concert. All ages welcome. Register today! Don’t miss!

02/19/2025

The Jewish people have been persecuted, hated, and mocked for centuries, but they have endured. They have fought back. And they are NOT going anywhere.

PJFM’s first ever Jewish Resilience Film and Media Series explores the unwavering fortitude of the Jewish people through cinema and digital media. In an age of rising antisemitism across the globe on social media, in politics, and elsewhere, this new series celebrates the strength and survival of the Jewish people throughout history, from the Golden Age to post-October 7th.

The stories presented in the program, featuring everyday heroes and more, stand as beacons of hope for the future of the Jews and inspire everyone, regardless of identity, to stand up in the face of adversity.

Lineup Announcement: March 18 Tickets On Sale: March 25 The Jewish people have been persecuted, hated, and mocked for centuries, but they have endured. They have fought back. And they are NOT going anywhere. PJFM’s first ever Jewish Resilience Film and Media Series explores the unwavering

01/20/2025

In a moment when many are feeling hopeless, anxiety-ridden, or scared for the future, we are reminded of the courageous fight for justice of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, in the face of unrelenting opposition, maintained the promise of hope that we shall overcome. A civil rights hero and megaphone for the voiceless, Dr. King pushed the frontlines for peace, justice, and equity across the country under law. He led thousands from Selma to Montgomery, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, pushing forward in the face of every threat.

The legacy of Dr. King is a light of hope that we cling to as it fuels a new generation with a similar promise for the future — a promise that can only be fulfilled through an unending pursuit of human dignity for all of us.

12/01/2024

Monday, December 2, 2024,5:30 PM - 8:00 PM at the Society of Colonial Dames, 1630 Latimer Street Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Join the Brandeis Law Society for an early Channukah celebration, honoring this year's Benjamin Levy award winner, Larry Bendesky, Esquire of Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky P.C.

There will be kosher catered food from Deluxe Catering and a limited drinks menu. We cannot wait to celebrate with you!

Thank you to our sponsors:
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky P.C.
The Weitz Firm, LLC
Gross & Kenny, LLP
Kline & Specter
Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C.

Host Committee Co-Chairs: Eric H. Weitz, Esquire and Jeffrey S. Gross, Esquire

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-d-brandeis-law-society-annual-channukah-party-tickets-1082657972139

11/13/2024

HAPPENING TONIGHT!

EVENT: Nov. 13th, 6-8 PM @ Cozen O’Connor

Our Jewish law student leaders at Penn Law, Temple Law; Drexel Law; Delaware Law; Rutgers Law, and the Jewish Grad Organization (“JGO”), invite our Brandeis Law Society members to attend “CONNECT” - a legal networking mixer and cocktail event called, on Wednesday, November 13th from 6-8 pm at Cozen O’Connor (Liberty Place, 1650 Market Suite 2800).

CONNECT is JGO’s signature event, hosted across North America, designed to inspire connections between Jewish legal professionals and Jewish Law students.

The main goal of the event is to create meaningful and lasting relationships between Jewish Law students and attorneys from around Philadelphia and foster our Jewish community. JGO’s mission is simple: to create Jewish experiences and community for grad students on campus through social and cultural programs.

If you would like to attend the event and connect with students, please RSVP via e-mail to Rabbi David J. Sorani ([email protected]).

11/11/2024

To all the heroes who have served and sacrificed for our country, THANK YOU, ON THIS VETERANS DAY.

11/05/2024

EVENT: Nov. 13th, 6-8 PM @ Cozen O’Connor

Our Jewish law student leaders at Penn Law, Temple Law; Drexel Law; Delaware Law; Rutgers Law, and the Jewish Grad Organization (“JGO”), invite our Brandeis Law Society members to attend “CONNECT” - a legal networking mixer and cocktail event called, on Wednesday, November 13th from 6-8 pm at Cozen O’Connor (Liberty Place, 1650 Market Suite 2800).

CONNECT is JGO’s signature event, hosted across North America, designed to inspire connections between Jewish legal professionals and Jewish Law students.

The main goal of the event is to create meaningful and lasting relationships between Jewish Law students and attorneys from around Philadelphia and foster our Jewish community. JGO’s mission is simple: to create Jewish experiences and community for grad students on campus through social and cultural programs.

If you would like to attend the event and connect with students, please RSVP via e-mail to Rabbi David J. Sorani ([email protected]).

10/27/2024

EVENT:
Tue., Oct. 29th, 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
LOCATION:
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LPP’s Town Hall Conference Room
2005 Market St., Ste 2600
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Join the Phila. Bar Assoc. and Phila. Affinity Organizations' leadership and members for a FALL SOCIAL to celebrate cultures through food and networking!

Enjoy foods representing different backgrounds, beverages and network with your colleagues while meeting and making new connections in the Philadelphia affinity bar legal and judicial community. Learn the significance of some of the dishes, and you may even walk away with a recipe or two!

Attendance capacity is limited so REGISTER TODAY!!: https://philadelphiabar.org/?pg=events&eid=291795&evAction=regV2

Please join members of the following organization and enjoy a fun evening of food and fellowship!!

Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania (APABA-PA)

Barristers Association of Philadelphia

Brandeis Law Society

Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania (HBAPA)

Justinian Law Society

National Bar Association, Women Lawyers Division (NBA WLD)

10/11/2024

“Yizkor.” This word pierces straight through the heart of any Jew connected to Judaism. It contains the pain of loss, the gaping hole left by those we loved, and the requirement that we actively remember the deceased.

A description of Yizkor is found in the Midrash Tanchuma (parshas Ha’azinu 1), where it cites Deuteronomy 21:8, “Atone for Your people, Israel, whom You have redeemed.” The Midrash instructs us that we must “remember the deceased on Yom Kippur by pledging charity on their behalf.” The Midrash assures us that the charity in the merit of our beloved departed souls will ascend to their merit with great speed.

While Yizkor centers on remembering parents, it also enables us to insert the names of others we loved. Following Yizkor for close relatives, there are paragraphs for victims of the Holocaust and other who died for expressing their Jewish identity.

One year ago, on Yom Kippur, we had no idea of the tragedy that would befall the Jewish people with the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Like others in our organization, many in my family were massacred in the Holocaust. But that was in Ukraine in the 1940s. Not in Israel in 2023. The marches calling for death of Jews are a familiar horror which we are stunned to see in America in 2023 and 2024.

This year, when we say Yizkor, we will include a prayer for the souls taken from this world by Hamas’ massacre, those who died defending Israel, and those who were taken hostage and executed by Hamas. In a world that has failed to express outrage, we must be outraged. And as Jews, we have a time and space to express not only our deep sadness and loss but to commit to building a better world in their names.

Each year, at Jewish Law Day, we remember those we lost in our community. It is an integral part of the event, and it is a beautiful way to honor those who enlivened our community. At last year’s Jewish Law Day we included those who lost their lives as a result of October 7. We have lost many more since that time. We pray that we do not continue to lose more this coming year.

May this year be a blessing to all of us, and may our good deeds on earth be a blessing to those we lost personally and to those who we all lost as Jews.

Warmly,
Gittel Hilibrand, Esq.
Secretary of the Board of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society