The Tikvah Legal Fellowship

Olga Benacerraf de Strulovic is a first-year student at the University of Chicago Law School. She graduated summa cum laude from Boston University’s Kilachand Honors College, where she was her year’s Distinguished Law Concentrator and a Gatto Law Fellow. After graduation, she worked in investment banking compliance at Rockefeller Capital Management. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Olga is deeply grateful for the opportunity to study and build a life in the United States. At the University of Chicago, Olga serves as a 1L Representative for the Jewish Law Students Association and the Latine Law Students Association and is on the board of the Edmund Burke Society. This summer, she plans to intern in the chambers of Judge Roy Altman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Bella Brannon is a first-year law student at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. She graduated from UCLA, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Ha’Am, the campus Jewish newspaper, increasing its viewership nearly one thousandfold under her leadership, and as President of Hillel. A longtime member of the Tikvah community, Bella is an alumna of the Maimonides Scholars Program and the Beren Summer Program, and previously served as a UCLA chapter president. She is passionate about religious liberty and cybersecurity, and has worked at a cybersecurity firm as well as interned with the Religious Freedom Institute and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty. Her writing has appeared in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and Mosaic. Outside of academics, she can be found playing bass guitar, training for her next marathon, or enjoying a film from the Golden Age of Hollywood with a hot cup of coffee.

Daniella Efrat is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Daniella graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. As an undergraduate student, Daniella worked at both state and federal administrative agencies—the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the California Labor Commissioner. Her research focuses on the intersection between administrative procedure and executive power.

Elliot Jarashow is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School, where he serves as a board member and 1L representative of the Jewish Law Students Association. He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University with a major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He also began rabbinical studies at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, which he plans to complete over the coming years. During college, Elliot spent a summer interning for U.S. Senator Joni Ernst and served as a campus fellow for the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA). After graduation, he spent a full year studying at Yeshiva University’s Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem, focusing on intensive Talmud study and Jewish philosophy. This summer, Elliot will serve as a judicial intern for Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Keren Karmiel is a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a 2025 summa cum laude graduate of the University of South Carolina. At Penn, she serves as the Federalist Society’s Clerkship Director and is a TFAS Buckley Law Fellow and Philadelphia Society Founder’s Fellow. She will spend this summer at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C., and next summer as a summer associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, splitting her time between the N.Y. and D.C. offices. After graduation, Keren will clerk for Judge Daniel A. Bress of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

Moshe S. Klein is a J.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School (Class of 2028), focusing on corporate law and technology transactions. Originally from Brooklyn’s Hasidic community and now a member of the Upper East Side’s Kehilath Jeshurun, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College. Bridging technology and law, Moshe previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Best Mechanical Plumbing and as Judicial Secretary for the Honorable Rachel E. Freier at the New York State Supreme Court. He is an incoming Legal Intern at Apex Healthcare Properties for Summer 2026. Beyond his legal pursuits, Moshe is an active developer in the artificial intelligence community, experimenting with local language models and RAG systems. An avid music producer and composer, he has released over 50 original songs.

Elishama Marmon is a JD Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center, where he is a student fellow at the Center for the Constitution and a Federalist Society board member. He is passionate about constitutional law and litigation. Previously, he worked as Operations and Programming Associate at the Council for a Secure America, as Chief Operating Officer of The YU Seforim Sale, and as a research assistant for Dr. Tevi Troy. He graduated with honors from Yeshiva University, with a double major in political science and mathematical economics and a minor in psychology. Elishama served as the Managing Editor of the YU Commentator, a board member of the Undergraduate Law Review, and the chief justice of the YU student court. He was also a Tikvah Summer Fellow, a mashgiach (kosher supervisor) in various NYC restaurants, and a freelance writer for JNS.

Gittel Tova Segal grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and studied philosophy and Talmud at Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is a first-year law student at Cornell Law School, where she is a 1L Representative for the Jewish Law Students’ Association and the Federalist Society. She has interned with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and a criminal defense firm. This summer, she aims to continue building a career grounded on the pursuit of justice and the rule of law as an intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. She enjoys listening to Supreme Court oral arguments related to first amendment issues, taking long walks, and cooking chicken soup. She is deeply grateful and excited to be a member of the Tikvah Fellowship.

Justin Evan Smith is a second-year law student at Antonin Scalia Law School, where he serves as Managing Editor of the George Mason Law Review and received the Antonin G. Scalia Writing Award for the top student note. His scholarship examines how institutional design and public choice theory constrain regulatory discretion in antitrust enforcement. Justin has clerked with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Attorney General’s Division of Legal Strategy, and the Federal Trade Commission. This summer, he will serve as a Law Clerk in Commissioner Mark Meador’s office at the FTC. Before law school, he spent two decades in senior executive roles in technology and media, most recently as Executive Director at WPP. A Harvard College graduate, he is committed to strengthening constitutional protections for religious liberty and civil discourse.