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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? 5 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 44 BEDARCHEI HATORAH WINTER 5780/2020 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.