The Rabbi and the Police Chief

A new video from Jewish.TV features expert mechanech, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, along with Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, answering parents’ questions about how to protect their children from predators.

Last week, Rabbi Mordechai Shain of Lubavitch on The Palisades, hosted a special one-time lecture organized by Jewish.TV entitled Boundary Basics: Talking to Children About Personal Safety.

Full of practical tips for parents, the lecture was given by renowned Jewish educator, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, recipient of the 2008 Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators and founder and dean of Yeshiva Darchei Noam of Monsey. An authority on raising children in these troubled times, he is the founder and director of The Center for Jewish Family Life/Project YES, and has just produced the soon to be released safety and abuse prevention picture book for young children entitled Let’s Stay Safe.

“Research shows that these discussions with our children are best had at a moderately anxious moment,” said Horowitz to the crowd of CGI day camp parents at Lubavitch of the Palisades as he gave numerous powerful illustrations of simple and effective techniques for teaching children about how to protect their personal boundaries.

Lubavitch of the Palisades Executive Director, Rabbi Mordechai Shain, invited his friend, Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, to follow Rabbi Horowitz’s talk with his own safety message to parents. Rabbi Horowitz and the chief then fielded a Q&A session together. Chief Bruno corroborated many of the points made by Horowitz by drawing from his experience of 26 years in law enforcement. Throughout the Q&A session, Rabbi Horowitz and Chief Bruno supported each others points on several important ideas such as the need for parents to monitor their children’s use of technology.

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