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Since then, the combination of high achievement in Torah and sensitivity to others’ needs has been the trademark of the Darchei student.

pioneer bachurim approached graduation, Rav Bender decided to offer them the opportunity to continue at Darchei for yeshiva gedolah. In 1999 Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid began its first zeman. Several months later, Rav Bender appointed Rav Shlomo Avigdor Altusky, a highly regarded rosh yeshiva in Montreal, to lead it. While the Beis Medrash began comprised primarily of Darchei talmidim, it now attracts young men from all over the United States. Together, the Mesivta and Beis Medrash have molded well over a thousand bachurim into true Bnei Torah and bnei Aliyah, and the Yeshiva has earned its rightful place on the‘ eastern wall’ of American yeshivos.
By the late 1990s, as Darchei’ s enrollment approached 1,000 talmidim, the elementary school began to overflow its original one-story brick building and was obliged to use auxiliary trailers for the spillover. The situation was clearly unsustainable. In 2008 the Yeshiva broke ground on a massive, 186,000-square foot complex that would provide classroom space for five parallel classes per grade, in addition to a beis medrash / assembly hall, a dining hall, science and computer laboratories, an indoor gym for the preschool, administrative offices and a spacious home for the Rabenstein Learning Center. With the help of an IDA bond issue and a vigorous fundraising campaign, the Yeshiva celebrated the chanukas habayis of the new complex in the spring of 2011. January 14, 2018
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