The Yeshiva’s DIRECTOR OF SAFETY Explains
How He Guides Arrivals and Dismissals
QUESTIONS FOR
Rabbi
Moshe
Bonrouhi
What do you do at the Yeshiva?
I help the rabbeim and menahelim maximize the safety of our children
during arrivals and dismissals. We also try to minimize the time that
parents spend waiting. During the day I teach Gemara to middle
school talmidim, one-on-one.
Can you give some
examples?
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fine-tune the process. We also
try to provide a seamless and
pleasant experience for the
parents who are driving their
children.
Every Sunday we have between
140 and 180 cars arriving. How
do you ensure the safe and
efficient flow of traffic? This
is where my math skills kick in!
We increased the amount of
rabbeim and staff members who
help at those times and added
pick-up and drop-off points
along the campus perimeter.
Baruch Hashem, we have it
down to a science.
What impresses you the
most about the Yeshiva?
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I was born and raised in Queens and came to Darchei Torah in 1998,
staying for Mesivta and Beis Medrash. After learning in Eretz Yisrael
and in Lakewood, I spent five years here in Kollel Tirtza Devorah. I
have a degree in applied mathematics.
How do you accomplish your goals?
Most of the children travel to and from Yeshiva by school bus, and
there are also parent carpools—except on Sundays, when there is no
bus service, so everyone uses carpools. With so many students coming
and going in the same short time span, it’s crucial to ensure their
safety, and I worked with Rabbis Moshe Bender and Joel Kaplan to
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The commitment to the safety
and wellbeing of every talmid.
As Rabbi Bender says, “You
may never know about the
life you save.” There is also
a strong ethos of “customer
service” — the rabbeim,
teachers, and menahalim
consider themselves shlichim
of the parents in the boys’
chinuch, so they go to the nth
degree to be on the same page.