Yaakov Bender

He is the rosh hayeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Darchei Torah (Far Rockaway).

[3] He was appointed[4] first as a seventh-grade rebbi (Hebrew teacher) in 1978 and less than a year later as principal.

He is an active member of the Vaad Roshei Yeshiva - the governing rabbinic board - of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.

[7] His parents, Rabbi Dovid and Basya Bender, were pioneering educators on the American Jewish scene.

[8] His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Bender, traveled in the 1930s within the United States to raise funds for yeshivas in New York such as RIETS and Israel.