By The Jewish Star
Issue of June 26, 2009 / 4 Tammuz 5769
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid, the post-high school program affiliated
with Yeshiva Darchei Torah, is one of five Jewish institutions in
Queens that will split grants worth more than $300,000 from the Non-profit Security Grant Program.
Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn and Queens) made the
announcement Tuesday at a meeting at the Israel Center of Conservative
Judaism on 73rd Avenue and 167th Street in Queens.
Sixty-one religious organizations in New York City will receive
funding. The security awards come just weeks after New York City
police and federal agents thwarted planned bombings at shuls in
Riverdale, in the Bronx.
“We sent in an application and we’re very happy that it was
accepted,” said Baruch Rothman, a spokesman for Beis Medrash Heichal
Dovid. “For a very long time the yeshiva’s campus has needed a fence
and now it will have one.”
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid owns two buildings at either end of the
Darchei Torah campus where construction is currently underway. The new
fence is to enclose the entire property. The yeshiva comprises a
program for unmarried students and a kollel where students have the
opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in Talmudic Law.