Homeland security grant in Far Rockaway

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.