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Dovi Safier

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, November 04, 2020
Though he was attracted by the New World offer, old age and other factors prevented the Malbim from taking the position
For the Record
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Answering the call was a young, ambitious scion of the Alter of Slabodka named Eliyahu Meir Finkel
For the Record
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The incredible zechus of having Rav Shimon serve as the Kohein at a pidyon haben
Magazine Feature
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Of the 24 students of the Slabodka yeshivah murdered in the 1929 Chevron massacre, eight of them were Americans. This is their story
For the Record
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
While both Rav Chaim Ozer and the Chofetz Chaim were able to reestablish themselves in independent Poland, they never ceased in their attempts to assist the Jews of Russia
For the Record
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
At a time when Conservative Judaism was seen as the future, an Orthodox Jewish day school in the Rockaways was the daring vision of a local rav named Rabbi Mordechai Shuchatowitz
For the Record
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The miracle mikveh of the Baal Shem Tov wasn’t the only mass pilgrimage destination for chassidic Jewry in interwar Eastern Europe