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Effort in Albany to curb campus antisemitism By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com
Courtesy Yeshiva Darchei Torah
A rendering of Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s two new buildings on Seagirt Boulevard.
Yeshiva Darchei Torah is expanding
School will add a residence hall, classrooms and gym By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Yeshiva Darchei Torah, of Far Rockaway, has two new buildings under construction on Seagirt Boulevard, a mesivta beis medrash — a study hall and classroom building — and a residence hall. The architectural firm working on the project is Fischer and Makooi, based in New York. The yeshiva received city approval for the work in April, and began excavating on May 8. One of the two five-story buildings will have 15 new classrooms, and the other, the school’s first state-of–the-art dormitory, will have 87 rooms housing more than 350 stu-
dents. They expect the construction to be completed by 2026, and a new gymnasium will be added in a second phase of construction, scheduled to begin in six to 12 months. Darchei Torah officials said that the school needs the new classroom building because enrollment has swelled over the past decade, to 2,800 students, and the current facility, on the opposite side of Seagirt Boulevard, cannot meet the demand for increased learning space. “We want to not only have more space in terms of class sizes, prayer, gym, science labs and all that,” Rabbi Moshe Benoliel, the school’s director of alumni affairs, said, “but we want to enhance the quality of the educaConTinueD on pAge 12
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To counter what they view as rising antisemitism on college campuses across New York, Assemblyman Ari Brown, who represents the Five Towns, and upstate Sen. Bill Weber are supporting legislation that would deny access to state money for students who purposely offend Jewish people. Weber first proposed the Combating Campus Antisemitism Act last November. Brown began sponsoring a companion measure a month later. If the proposed bill becomes law, it would prevent college students who knowingly take part in antisemitic acts from taking part in the state’s Tuition Assistance Program. The funding, known as TAP, awards eligible students anywhere from $500 to $5,665 for the academic year. As of press time, the bill had been submitted to the Higher Education committees of both legislative bodies. Brown, who also represents East Rockaway, Island Park, Oceanside and the Long Beach barrier island, and Weber, who represents the majority of Rockland County and part of
Westchester County, were joined by Assembly members Alec Brook-Krasny, Michael Novakhov, Ed Ra and Robert Smullen, Professor Jeff Lax, of Kingsborough Community College, and State Sen. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick at a news conference to push for the passage of the bill at the Million Dollar Staircase in the State Capitol on May 8. CanzoneriFitzpatrick also represents the Five Towns, and Ra is another Long Island lawmaker. “Let’s get it passed and signed by the governor,” Weber said, “so we can really make a difference, and hit these kids and students that are chanting these antisemitic slogans and threats — hit them where it hurts, in their pocket.” Brown and Weber noted recent pro-Palestinian protests that had taken place on college campuses around the state and across the country, as well as the rise of antisemitic acts in academia since the Hamas attacks on Israelis on Oct. 7, and Israel’s military response in the months since. “A couple of months ago, we saw three presidents of universities question whether asking or screaming out genocide for ConTinueD on pAge 11