Soferim in United States

FairfaxTravels to the client

Alexandra Casser is a soferet based in Fairfax, Virginia, working as a scribe and educator since 2010. She specialises in the restoration of antique Torah scrolls and is authorised by the Memorial Scrolls Trust to work on its sifrei torah. She also repairs tefillin and takes new commissions for sifrei torah, tefillin and mezuzot. She has provided scribal services to dozens of Jewish communities from California to New York and from Wisconsin to Louisiana, and offers Torah repair on or offsite.

• Letter restoration Torah scroll · On request
• Repair Torah scroll · On request
• Repair Tefillin · On request

Los AngelesTravels to the client

Avrohom Dovid Wolffe is a sofer STaM based in Los Angeles, where his STaM Center is located at 607 S Orange Drive, Hancock Park, CA 90036. His site states he received certification and smicha ordination from Mishmeret Stam in Bnei Brak, Israel and from the Israel Ministry Department of Professional Qualifications, and that he has served the Jewish community as a scribe since 1999. He names Rabbi Moshe Veiner of Jerusalem and Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kenig A"H as the scribes and rabbis who mentored him. He handles purchase and checking of mezuzot, tefillin and Torah scrolls, can come to a home or business to check and repair them, and gives educational presentations and workshops.

• Checking Mezuzah · On request
• Checking Tefillin · On request
• Checking Torah scroll · On request

Beacon

Julie Seltzer is a scribe and educator based in Beacon, New York. She first learned with Jen Taylor Friedman and has been writing Torah scrolls since 2009, when she was Scribe-in-Residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Having completed her fourth Torah scroll, she now focuses primarily on education and Torah repair, and describes her work as helping congregations maintain their Torah scrolls through repair work and education. She offers Torah assessment and repair, megillah commissions, educational workshops in person or via Zoom, and scholar-in-residence weekends.

• Checking Torah scroll · On request
• Repair Torah scroll · On request
• Writing Megillah · On request

West Orange

Linda Coppleson is a soferet STaM based in West Orange, New Jersey, and a member of the Stam Scribes collective. Her scribal studies began in 2003 under the artist and sofer Eric Ray z"l, and she later studied the halacha of safrut with Jen Taylor. She participated in the Women's Torah Project, writing 20 of its 62 pages, and has since written three sifrei torah. She takes new torah commissions, torah repair, and megillah and mezuzah commissions, and she repairs and restores sifrei torah.

• Writing Torah scroll · On request
• Writing Megillah · On request
• Writing Mezuzah · On request

AirmontTravels to the client

Melech Michaels runs Mezuzah Depot, a safrus (STa"M) business based in Monsey, New York, specialising in tefillin and mezuzos. The site states he received smicha from Reb Avraham Tzvi Wosner, posek for the Vaad Mishmereth Stam, and has been writing tefillin, mezuzos, megillos and sifrei Torah for over twenty-five years, after learning writing and pen making from Reb Aaron Berlin and battim repair from Reb Yaakov Michael. The stated specialty is mezuzah checking, including house calls that advise where mezuzos are required and install them, plus tefillin checking and repair of parshios, battim and retzuos. Local service calls are offered in Rockland County, northern New Jersey, Westchester County and Manhattan.

• Writing Tefillin · On request
• Writing Mezuzah · On request
• Writing Megillah · On request

MonseyTravels to the client

Rabbi Kass is a sofer stam in Monsey, New York, who founded The Sofer Center in 2011. He was ordained by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau and certified as a sofer by Rabbi Avrohom Tzvi Vosner, Rav and Posek for the Vaad Mishmeres Sta"m. He sells mezuzos, tefillin, megillos and sifrei torah, some of which he wrote himself, and he checks, repairs and restores them according to halachah. Before founding the centre he was employed full time as a sofer at a sofer stam in Brooklyn, NY. The site lists mezuzah house calls among its services.

• Checking Mezuzah · On request
• Checking Tefillin · On request
• Checking Torah scroll · On request

MiamiTravels to the client

Rabbi Levi Backman is a certified sofer STaM serving Miami and South Florida, working under the name Miami Mezuzah Center. His site states he is certified by Lemaan Yilmedu and is trained in the halachic writing and inspection of Torah scrolls, mezuzot, tefillin and megillot. He offers mezuzah and tefillin checking with a written inspection certificate documenting the halachic status of each scroll, sells kosher mezuzah scrolls and tefillin, and makes in-home visits across Miami-Dade, South Broward and Boca Raton by request. Service is offered in English, Spanish and Hebrew.

• Checking Mezuzah · On request
• Checking Tefillin · On request
• Writing Mezuzah · On request

Spring Valley

Rabbi Shea Lindner has worked as a sofer stam since 1993, first in Brooklyn, New York and, per his site, having since moved to Spring Valley, New York. He writes, sells and checks sifrei torah, tefillin, mezuzos and megillos. He is certified by Rabbi Avrohom Tzvi Vosner, Rav of Va'ad Mishmeres Stam, and by Rabbi Yecheskel Roth, Rav of Bais Talmud Le'hora'ah. He publishes a booklet on safrus called "Kol Sofer".

• Writing Torah scroll · On request
• Writing Tefillin · On request
• Writing Mezuzah · On request

Boro Park

Rabbi Shmuel Ahron Traube has been certified by Vaad Mishmeres Stam since 1998 and learned by Rabbi Avroham Markowitz. The Bais HaStam about page describes him as a professional certified magiha (checker) and sofer, recognised for expertise in current and historical judaica and safrus items, able to recognise the handwriting of many well-known sofrim. He established Bais HaStam in Boro Park, Brooklyn, thirty years ago, and has been active as a volunteer for Vaad Mishmeres Stam, where the page says he gained knowledge from Rabbi Granetstein and Rabbi Greenfield.

• Proofreading Mezuzah · On request

North Miami BeachTravels to the client

Rabbi Yochanan Salazar is described on the Sofer On Site site as a master sofer, educator and lecturer, and heads the company's Torah Restoration Department. Born in Ecuador, he moved to the United States as a teenager and studied at Hudson College and NJIT before entering safrut. He received rabbinic ordination in 2004 from Rabbi Daniel Channen in Beit Shemesh, Israel, apprenticed in safrut under the Rabbis Druin at Sofer On Site in Miami, and received his ordination as a sofer from Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Hayyim. He travels around the country restoring Torah scrolls on site and teaching communities proper techniques of Torah care.

• Repair Torah scroll · On request
• Letter restoration Torah scroll · On request