Dovi Safier

Dovi Safier is a business professional who enjoys researching unexplored chapters of Jewish history, with a primary focus on the yeshivos of the interwar period.

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For the Record

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Relying on Rav Beinush

Though Rav Binyomin Beinush may not be as well known as his father, grandfather, or son-in-law Rav Nosson Tzvi, perhaps that is exactly how he wanted it to be

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Life, Liberty, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe

“May the Almighty bless this great country which has been a [place of] refuge for our Jewish People”

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A Shtikel Brisk on the Hudson

This Shabbos marks eighty years since the petirah of Rav Moshe Soloveitchik

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Wednesday, January 06, 2021

A Powerhouse in Passaic

Rav Rosen was a prize talmid of Rav Chaim Leib Tiktinsky in Mir and the Netziv in Volozhin

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Elder of the American Rabbinate

For 56 years, Rav Tzvi Hirsch Grodzenski led Omaha's growing Orthodox immigrant community

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The Mistaken “Murder” of Rav Meir Simcha

Rav Meir Simcha was a dominating presence at rabbinical conferences in the waning years of czarist rule

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Remembering the Chofetz Chaim

Rav Dovid Leibowitz may have been the first to adopt the Chofetz Chaim name in America, but many subsequent mosdos would proudly carry the beloved gadol hador’s name as well

Tribute

Wednesday, December 09, 2020

The Path to a Bochur’s Heart

Rav Aharon Chodosh embodied the spirit of Slabodka, yet he was a mashgiach for a new generation. His passing last week marks the end of an era – a great rav schooled in the histor ...