About the Tikvah Legal Fellowship

Elias Neibart is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, Elias serves as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. His research focuses on constitutional interpretation and the intellectual history of American constitutionalism. His academic writing has appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Elias spent his 1L summer at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, Elias received his MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. His dissertation examined the ideological origins of America’s “Second Founding.” A 2020 graduate of Emory University, Elias earned his undergraduate degree in Political Theory and Philosophy, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. Elias was previously a Charles Krauthammer Fellow with the Tikvah Fund and an Alexander Hamilton Student Fellow at Antonin Scalia Law School. Elias has also held positions with the Manhattan Institute and the New York County District Attorney’s Office.

Nolan Edmonson is second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law where he is president of the Jewish Law Students Association and an editor on the Virginia Tax Review. Prior to law school, he attended Yeshiva University where he studied political science and served in various leadership roles within the student body. Nolan is interested in a wide array of subjects and particularly enjoys reading history. Next summer, Nolan will be an incoming summer associate at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP in New York City. Nolan is also an avid skier and is very involved with UVA Law’s world-renowned softball league.

Dore Feith is a second-year student at Columbia Law School, where he is an editor on the Columbia Business Law Review and a Federalist Society board member. Last summer, Dore interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, he served as a special assistant to the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dore graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in History. He speaks Hebrew and Arabic. After graduation, Dore will clerk for Judge Steven Menashi on the Second Circuit.

Josh Blustein is a J.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Law School. During the summer of 2022, he interned for Judge Roy Altman in the Southern District of Florida. Before law school, Mr. Blustein was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, working directly with Prof. Steve Hanke, a renowned economist and former advisor to Pres. Ronald Reagan. With professional experience in consulting, he is also a writer covering history, baseball and why they both still matter. He is a 2022-2023 Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.

Jonathan Feld is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. During his summer as a Tikvah Legal Fellow, he interned in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. He was previously the research assistant in the President’s Office of the American Enterprise Institute. Jonathan’s first historical monograph was published by the United States Navy in 2017. He earned his MPhil with Distinction from Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, and received his AB, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton University. While studying at the University of Cambridge, he also briefly played in the British Baseball Federation. Jonathan is a 2022-2023 Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.

Elisheva Marcus graduated as the 2021 Valedictorian from Touro University’s Lander College for Women, where she earned a degree in history and political science and authored a senior thesis concerning the reactions of the Allied leaders to the Holocaust. While there, she conducted research for Professor Howard Feldman and volunteered at the CLARO program, which offers limited legal advice to low-income New Yorkers being sued in consumer-credit cases. Elisheva is currently studying at NYU School of Law and is interested in pursuing a career in legal academia.

Tal Fortgang worked as a senior research associate at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, prior to law school, where he focused on poverty, economic mobility, American constitutional government, and political history. An accomplished writer, Tal’s work has appeared in Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, and National Review, among other outlets. He earned his undergraduate degree in politics with a certificate in Judaic studies from Princeton University, where he wrote his thesis under constitutional scholar Keith Whittington. He is a J.D. candidate at New York University Law School. During his summer as a Tikvah Legal Fellow, Tal interned for Judge Steven J. Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Dassi Solomson graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, in May 2020 with a B.A. in economics and a dual-minor in mathematical science and political science. She is currently pursuing a joint J.D./M.A. in Security Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She also works full-time as a Supply Chain Business Intelligence Analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton where she supports government clients working to secure the cyber supply chain. After spending multiple summers interning on Capitol Hill and within the Intelligence Community, Dassi spent the summer of 2022 interning in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Office of General Counsel. Dassi plans to pursue a career at the intersection of national security and cybersecurity law and policy.

Ari Spitzer attends Harvard Law School, where he is an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and is active in the Federalist Society and the Jewish Law Students Association. Prior to law school, Ari attended New York University Stern School of Business, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 2019. After graduating from NYU, Ari worked as a private equity analyst for Brookstone Partners. Last summer, Ari interned at the law firm of Consovoy McCarthy, PLLC, in Washington, DC. In 2022, he worked as a summer associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates in New York City.