Bruce Bergen Honored by B’nai Brith

Bruce H. Bergen of Springfield was recently honored by the Springfield B’nai B’rith.

In presenting Bergen with the lodge’s prestigious Citizenship and Civic Affairs Award at the group’s 56th annual dinner dance at in Springfield B’nai B’rith president Joseph Tenenbaum characterized Bergen as “dedicated and compassionate.”

Bergen was recently nominated by the Union County Democratic Party as a candidate for Union County Freeholder.

Bergen, a Springfield resident and partner in the Cranford law firm Krevsky, Silber & Bergen, was the Township Attorney for  for 17 of the last 19 years. In 2010 he served as attorney to the Springfield Board of Health, as he previously did in 1987. In 1993 he was the Springfield Rent Leveling Board attorney. Bergen has also been Special Counsel to the Township of Hillside and is currently on his second five-year term as a member of the Union County Attorney Ethics Committee.

In a release, Tenenbaum noted that Bergen is currently board chairman of Central Jersey Legal Services Inc., which provides free civil legal representation to eligible residents of Union, Middlesex and Mercer Counties.

The president of the lodge also praised Bergen for his activity in other programs that have benefited the general public. 

Tenenbaum also praised members Bea and Sol Walter of Springfield for “their outstanding fundraising."

"Over the past 16 years they have raised more than $150,000 for B’nai B’rith humanitarian causes,” Tenenbaum said in an email.