Our Summer 2025 Clerks and Interns

Law clerk Sabrina Goldfischer is a rising 2L at Harvard Law School, originally from Poughkeepsie, New York. A 2023 magna cum laude graduate from Harvard College, Sabrina served as President of Harvard Hillel and wrote an award-winning senior thesis on Harvard campus anti-Semitism. After graduating, Sabrina worked as Harvard Hillel’s Antisemitism Response Coordinator, then worked at the White House as Special Assistant for Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first-ever Jewish White House principal, specializing her work on presidential efforts to combat anti-Semitism. At Harvard Law School, Sabrina is on the boards of the Jewish Law Students Association and the Alliance for Israel. She is thrilled to be spending her summer working on the Brandeis Center’s crucial mission. In summer 2026, she will be a summer associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York City.

Law clerk Samuel Marks is a rising second-year law student at Michigan Law, where he is the Religious Programming Chair of Michigan Law’s Jewish Law Students Association. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Swarthmore College. Before attending law school, Samuel worked as the Associate Director of University Programs at the Tikvah Fund, where he developed educational initiatives, professional opportunities, and anti-Semitism awareness programming for Jewish students on college campuses across North America.

Law clerk Ellery Saluck is a J.D. candidate at American University Washington College of Law, where she focuses on human rights law, criminal law, animal law, and other practice areas united by a deep commitment to protecting vulnerable populations. In 2021, Ellery graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in International Affairs. While in college, she volunteered with migrants and refugees with the International Institute of St. Louis and worked with the U.S. Department of State to monitor global wildlife trafficking. Last summer, Ellery worked in the Special Victims Unit of the Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, reinforcing her dedication to see justice for those most vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. 

Law clerk Molly Vashovsky is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Baruch College at the Macaulay Honors College. Molly previously interned at the Office of the Attorney General of New York, where she evaluated consumer complaints about fraudulent business activity and facilitated settlements between consumers and businesses. As a second year at Columbia Law School, Molly will serve as the President of the Columbia Law Israel Organization and the Treasurer of the Jewish Law Students Association. She is thrilled to join the Brandeis Center and contribute to its vital work defending civil rights and combating anti-Semitism.

Law clerk Emma Waxlax is a J.D. candidate at George Washington Law School. Prior to law school, she attended the University of Toronto, double majoring in ethics, society & law, and history, graduating with High Distinction. Her senior year, she was invited to the University of Toronto’s Community Research Partnerships in Ethics, where she assisted the legal team in their advocacy efforts and published a final report on the impacts of Ethiopia’s civil war on food security and famine in the region of Tigray. After graduation, she worked as a research fellow for the UN Watch Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, managing the advocacy efforts of a coalition of 27 NGOs. 

Intern Asher Boiskin is a rising sophomore at Yale University studying political science. He writes for the Yale Daily News, where his reporting has drawn over 100,000 impressions and earned citations in outlets including the New York Times and CNBC. He co-founded the Yale Government Relations Group, the university’s first nonpartisan undergraduate lobbying organization, and serves on the board of Yale Friends of Israel. His interests include law and foreign policy.

Intern Ben Golden is a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Political Science, Philosophy, and Hebrew. Prior to joining the Brandeis Center, he interned for Nefesh B’nefesh’s Zionist Education Initiative in Jerusalem. He participated in the University of North Carolina’s Burch Seminar in the Hague and Bosnia, where he visited institutions bringing accountability to those responsible for major crimes and met with NGO’s dedicated to peacebuilding and inter-communal reconciliation post-war. These experiences sparked his interest in fighting for human rights and against anti-Semitism at the Brandeis Center.

Returning intern Joshua Schwartz is a rising junior at George Washington University majoring in political science and public policy. Josh is highly active in his school’s Hillel and involved in GW Hillel’s Israel fellowship program. Prior to interning with Brandeis, he interned with the NJ superior court and the Prosecutor’s office of Middlesex County. He is passionate about civil rights and hopes to pursue a legal career advocating for vulnerable populations.

Intern Jonathan Albert is a recent graduate from the University of Birmingham in England with a joint honours degree in history and philosophy. He is beginning a law conversion this September at the University of Law in London. His passion for law has been sparked from working with litigation lawyers whilst interning at Lawrence Stephens and Ingram Winter Green LLP, as well as attending trials at the RCJ in London. As someone who is very active in the Jewish community in Bushey and on campus with Aish and Chabad in Birmingham, he has seen how anti-Semitism affected life at university in the UK firsthand. He is driven to work with the Brandeis Center and contribute to fighting for justice.