Exclusive footage from The Yeshiva Summit Expo with Avi Schnall, presented by Agudath Israel.

Guys, today's a special day. I'm here with the one and only Avi Schnall at the Staten Island Hilton Hotel, the one and only Ephraim Feder, has come for Yeshiva Summit. Avi, can you explain us what's happening over here today? >> I didn't see this advertised anywhere. It wasn't advertised anywhere. The oil comes from all over the tri-state area. This can I know if you look at the parking lot, you cannot find a spot over here. The people that are parking by the other hotel parking lots, you cannot find a spot. The police came to help with some of the traffic. Security. Security. It's unbelievable. This is our third fourth year doing this already that the Agudah puts together Yeshiva Summit for school administrators, executive directors to spend the day together learning from each other. We have sessions. There's about 15 different sessions going on about And here's one of our one of our board members that just joined us over here. Rabbi Zucker. But he's on He's busy. He's working. He's always working. And they come together. There's sessions. We have members of the New York State Department of Education, from the government, from other places, and how to make it better, how to make the Yeshivas better, how to make the financial parts of the Yeshiva better, the administrative parts of the Yeshiva better. And it's an incredible experience. And that's why you thought you didn't see it advertised anywhere cuz people come and they love it. And when we open up registration, within a few days, it's full. It's full. The timing came the perfect time. We just finished the keynote session, and now we're in the middle of lunch. Lunch is in the expo room where they have a chance of all the exhibitors, all the schools can see different programs, different organizations, different companies from special education, books, accounting, payroll, whatever you can think about that can help a Yeshiva, they are here at the summit. I'm Menachem, one of our sponsors of the event is Charity. As we all know, ain't mayim kemach, ain't Torah. And we got to have the kemach to be able to have Yeshivas existing and at the forefront of raising funds for Yeshiva of Mechina the charity. And we're joined by our whole team from charity. And Menachem Siegel is a local Lakewood resident that came in for today. Menachem, talk a little bit about charity, about the amount of money they raised, how they're working for the Yeshivas, how they're working for the different organizations. Baruch Hashem, Charity's been around I've been working with Charity for almost I think 12 years or 13. Bottom line, we raised we raised north of 4 billion dollars, but closer to 5 billion >> with a B? Close to 5 billion >> dollars. Baruch Hashem, for Mechina actually, Avi, many many many of the Mechina in this room are our clients. Baruch Hashem, we had the opportunity to really help. We've seen we've seen that our good is coming to go from a small little uh conference to now Baruch Hashem, look what's going on over here. It's really really amazing to be here and be part of the growth of the Mechina. If If there's anyone wants to reach out, they can reach out to me. My cell phone number 732-833-3253. Or you can reach out reach out to [email protected]. [email protected]. You really need to come to our booth. site. Wow. This is another vendor. This is called Laren Curriculum. He doesn't want to go on camera right now, but he made all sorts of books. Heimish kosher books. Good curriculum. Math, reading, math books, all different things that Yiddish children can learn in with the Torah and the guidance. He makes the books himself? He makes the books themselves. They sell to the Yeshivas. They're approved books for the curriculum in the state, which is a which is an important thing. They're able to use the funding from the state to buy the books. And you can ensure that your kids are learning. The condition of the Torah He used to have to cut out Cut out all the books. Now, no more cutting out. These are all in guns. In guns. Everything is kosher and Yosher. Here's the phone number 718-834-1231. Email or go to the website learncurriculum.com skoyach As you know one of the biggest concerns of Yeshivas today is security. Keeping our children safe when they come to school and one of the vendors that are here today is also a security company. Many Yeshivas want to be able to have security but of course so how do you have the balance? So we're here with How do you pronounce the name of the of the company? So the name of the organization is Protect-X International. We're internationally licensed and compliant security guard agency. What we focus on is providing total security guard systems for the Jewish community and for communities abroad. It's very important that in today's day and age we have top notch security and that's what we're doing over here at Protect-X. What's your phone number? Our phone number is 917-336-7713. As we just said before there's two types of kemach. There's the kemach the gelt [snorts] and then there's the real kemach. As we know today the Yeshivas being built all over the place. One of the most important parts of having a functioning good Yeshiva is the kitchen. That's where Culinary Depot comes in. Culinary Depot is the name of the game. We do everything from the design, equipment, installation. We take care of the kitchen A to Z. Where else could you find huge pots like this or a cost level? That's right. Freshly baked rugelach. It looks like a soup bowl it looks like. That's right. Or it could wear as a hat. Yeah. How much is a rugelach? That's right. We do it all. What's the phone number if somebody wants to talk to you? 845-414-2270. I'm on shot ice cream ice cream ice cream ice cream. Ice cream ice cream ice cream. And the boys Hershey you got to let them Hershey leave it from Hershey's fancy. And railings. And railings, okay. We can explain this to my daughter. Just Give me a buzz. Yeah. Um especially camps. This is like my Monty. This is our camp, our motorized gate. Um security guardrail. Fencing and railings. Just call us up from temporary fencing rentals cuz Um heavy heavy security fencing. Solid solid gates, solid gates. Most of this temporary. 855-293-3623 A friend of one of our other vendors is Tree of Knowledge. They provide services in the Yeshivas. Um I can tell you what they do. I'm going to ask for myself and tell them what tell you what they do. Yes. We provide title services. Right now we've been providing in Ohio, we're providing in Florida. Providing in New Jersey, all over New Jersey. Now we're moving into New York. Title services we provide all the kids that are be able to have remedial help. There's a number of other services besides just that as far as just learning Korea, learning how to have interactions, social skills, getting along so they'll be able to manage and be able to really flourish in the classroom with everybody else. That's called title? I thought title services Title is title Different titles? Yeah. Different titles? Different Your name? Motke. Motke Twerski. Motke Twerski, South Fallsburg? South Fallsburg. Yes. Sure, if you want to give out your phone number. Doctor, doctor, but also clinical psychologist. Clinical psychologist, doctor in education, yeah, and at Yeshiva. What's your phone number if you want to give out? Yes, 216-233-0064. All right. From another one of our big funders at the summit is Yeled V'Yalda. Doesn't need much of an introduction. I'm going to let Rabbi Masquits take it from here. Yeled V'Yalda is an organization for 30 years helping children in Brooklyn, and we now expanded to Lakewood, and we have a site in Island. >> you started in Lakewood. Yeah, we have Head Start in Lakewood. Oh, Lakewood. We are the only agency from the federal government that has two states, New York and Lakewood. New York and New Jersey. New York and New Jersey. Since we expanded, what happened is that after we opened the Head Start, we saw that kids need more uh uh therapy, so we we do with um OT, TP, speech, and Title One, and we are in 101 moistures. We have Head Start, and we are like in 50 moistures we have between Title and all other services. Wow, that's quite a story. Who's my title? So, what do you leave us with in our last thought? He just started um Um Yeled V'Yalda is a company which service builds service builds and service children. It's the kids for children. It's a moment of pleasure. Absolutely, it's been a pleasure working with Rabbi Offen. The Yeled Yidden a mensch weißt alles wegen Kinder. And by Instant Yeled, we look forward every day to the bus in scameteam for the school, >> The official spokesperson for the mayor behind the scenes absolutely absolutely and what works for every individual teacher and every individual child. Thank you about them. Thank you. Bye-bye. Scott from And from another one of our vendors is Briansons. Briansons. Hi. We're honored to be part of this wonderful summit. You know, many schools have money available to them and they need guidance on how to spend it. So, we at Briansons reach out for title one, two, and three and four. We advise schools how to spend their money. And thanks to the Agudah for, you know, having this forum where all the schools can get together. You know, it's much life much easier instead of calling all the schools value that the Agudah. They all come together here to see what they do for and we're proud to be a vendor and a sponsor of this event tonight today. Our phone is 646-261-0812. We'd be more than happy to serve you anyway we can and benefit. And from another amazing vendor we have over here is Court Street Office Furniture. You know, every yeshiva have their furniture, the desks. We do a school furniture full supplies from designing to layouts to everything till till the after installation. We have another branch called Fable Custom. It's on the Court Street. We do school furniture. We do metal doors, everything custom, mikvahs, shields, or koidishes. Reach out to us. We give good pricing. We have a great service. We're looking forward. What's the phone number? Phone number 718-440-930-15. What's the cell phone number? 347-971-6224. Appreciate it. Court Street and we're going to Court Street downtown Brooklyn. And we went online from the recession that time. I have it was around the something that I have the freight was the cost of the thing that I machine but I took the answer. The thing it cost the thing it was $1,000. It was the cost of the machine. $900. The machine is tired of China. Such a Chinese machine from the only it's not a top brand uh But So come I'm going to ask The day show the day show the day show The thing of the machine was $200. I think it I think it was the other So we got Google. The thing is the thing is $900 to go for. >> [laughter] >> I took the thing and I took the machine In the house to see it later on. I get I would just leave it in the storage. I'm going to test it after the business to grab a pool machine and I have to Come here student. I never kept Why is it the same as the thing that I believe it's the thing in believe it's the thing that I believe it's the thing. I'm going to leave it there. >> [laughter] >> I get The the the the machine the entire American machine is I get the machine and the The machine is simple. I have to go to this place. In a minute I'll start it. The American machine is too complicated. Yeah, but a 50-page manual. And you know I don't know about the Chinese or something. It's the similar car and it's the Chinese cable thing was Another important vendor for your Yeshivas is cleaning supplies. You got to make sure the Yeshiva is clean. Franco's playing business also. Everything for your kitchen. Everything that you need in the kitchen from small wares, paper goods. Paper towel. Paper towel, toilet paper, you got it. We got next day delivery in the tri-state area, New York, New Jersey. Now coming up the summer season. And make sure all the Yeshivas get special discounts and pricing for Moses camps. Next day delivery all over the Catskills. Wow. Phone number. So, the office number 718-789- 4787. You can reach my cell phone on this WhatsApp number. You can have an after hours 347- 715-0565. You like the after hours? After hours, 24 24/6. We try. It's a hustle. It's a hustle. And from here I want to introduce you to one of our first vendors by the first summit, Wise Advisory. So, they've been here with us since year one. They have obviously keep coming back. I'm going to let Mr. Wise talk about what he provides. We do tax exempt bond financing for Yeshivas and 501c3s that are looking to borrow money for new buying a new building, acquisition, buying property, uh or construction. We can save them about 1 and 1/2% a year on interest. So, this is for larger projects. For instance, on a $20 million project, they could save $300,000 a year in interest alone. Wow. Uh it's a it's a very good thing. It does take it does take uh about 6 to 9 months to go through the process, uh but within the first 12 months they'll recoup your money. How much money did you develop for Yeshivas already? How much money? I've done probably close to a billion dollars in tax exempt bonds for Yeshivas. Wow. >> What's your phone number? 516- 551- 2345. It's good. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. From as we said many times, we mean come back and tell you we got to the money. We got to the kitchens. Now we get to the actual food. When I was a kid, everyone complained about Yeshiva lunches. It was the joke of the town. Today, thanks to Grossers and Big Parts, the level of Yeshiva okay, the level of the lunches, the quality of the food that Yeshivas are giving is today another level. Baruch Hashem. Us by Grossers, our slogan is we make it, you bake it. From bagels and baguettes >> that. the pizza rolls, garlic knots, and like you said, we up the level of the school lunches. Simple, and like I said, we make it, you bake it, take it out of the freezer, defrost it, pop it into the oven. You schmuck essen. But, the highly good I want to tell you a compliment. I once spoke to a chef By the way, that's the spring the cover. In his catalog, tell me another company that has that catalog. Mizoynus. Dairy, case count, baking instructions, I'm going to do the lunch items. 100%. Call me when you need stuff. One of our main sponsors of the event is Roth and Co. Who doesn't know Roth and Co? One of the largest accounting firms in the firm community. Yeah, hi. Um so, I'm Mr. Launder. I'm an audit partner at Roth and Co, and we help nonprofits in all their needs, whether it's an audit, it's a 990 tax return, whether it's getting their organization set up. From soup to nuts, we're here to help you with everything you need to make sure that your organization thrives. Wow. Hi. >> Before I mess we know that Yeshiva's moistest could have hundreds of employees, especially the larger moistest could have hundreds, sometimes over a thousand employees. Payroll is a big challenge. That's Brands Payroll. Hi, David Lozar, the COO at Brands Payroll. So, it's been great being at the event today. Although, always everyone's looking for new business, but it's great meeting all of our current clients, talking to them about how much they like things. And what I like trying to do with them is saying, I understand everything is working great, but how can we help make your payroll and HR department run more efficiently? Why don't you talk to us? Tell us about the things that you didn't think that maybe we could help you with, and see how we can help you, and see how either our tools maybe could help you today, or maybe we're going to build out to make more things to help you. So, that's what we're looking for. Not just to help all our clients with lots and lots of employees, hundreds and thousands of employees, but also how to make their life easier because the law keeps changing, you shouldn't have to be too busy with that. Again, this is David Lazar. This is Sam. We're with Brands Payroll and our telephone number is 718-625-1800. Thank you so much. Nice to meet everyone. One of our biggest sponsors of the program is also a company called Catapult. And they and many, many people know they've been around in the business for many decades. Yeah, it's going on 50 years now and one thing we're always dedicated to is student services, providing professional development for staff, being true partnerships with schools. We're so glad to be here by this beautiful Yeshiva Summit again. We have such a proud partnership with Agudath Israel Yeshiva Services and it's something that we're very honored to be a part of. Our biggest biggest goal is is to support education. If you have any questions, please reach out to me, David Dinter, 917-653-8559. Have a great day. Thank you. And from him I want to introduce you to the superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District. I'm always happy to be here. I've been here for many years. I really enjoy this conference. You get to meet people in the field. You get to meet excellent educators. The speakers are always the best. People from the State Department of Education, the City Department of Education. Very happy to be here. Want to keep I want to keep going. Alby does a great job. So does Agudath. Thank you. Thank you, Joel, for everything you do. And from one of the biggest hardships for Yeshivas is paying the bills. And as we've seen the last year or two, energy bills have skyrocketed. New York, New Jersey, wherever you are. One of our vendors is here to help the Yeshivas with their energy bills. Shmuel Nachman, Baruch Hashem, at the third year of the Yeshiva Summit, it was been very successful. As you can see, many testimonials over here. We saved the Yeshivas hundreds of thousands of dollars between local law compliance and bringing back money from Edison and National Grid and the other utilities. We're actually located in New York City, but we do a lot of other stuff in New Jersey and other states also between checking the bills, making sure that everything is good, and getting your buildings under compliance and energy efficient as possible as as best as possible. So, some buildings that they don't know where their energy is being lost, so they have we put on these small sensors, we can exactly see where anything energy is being lost. So, we can directly exactly solve the problems. >> What's your name and phone number? David Tauber, David Taube. David, uh 718-388-4084. Oh, actually, I see Yoli Veltz over here. We saved him close to $200,000 in >> [laughter] >> You can see it's testimonials. Talk with Yossi. Give us a call at 1-800-444-4444. It's a minute reason oil. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> The program now we're going to go to the building next door. It's called the above. In view is an exclusive track for board members. There's executive directors, there's administrators. We also know that all Yeshivas have a board, and being part of a board has responsibilities, liabilities, legalities. Who helps the board members understand what they need to do, and board members themselves, what you doing in your Yeshiva, what you doing in other Yeshiva, how to learn from each other. So, this year, first time ever, one of its kind, a track for board members of Yeshivas. Wow. Come check it out. Very high security. Hello, how are you? Hello, how are you? >> Thank you. What I'm seeing right now is the panel of board members. Every member on the panel is a member of a board of a large school five towns from Muncie, from New Jersey and they sit together. Questions and answers. Other board members can see they all learn from each other. It couldn't have gotten done without the help of this board member who had his head on straight and he did it all the time. He dealt with this before. Crisis management, he was there and engaged. So, I feel that's another entry of of allowing board members to be able to feel engaged in the day to day of the school. And then by by by virtue of that, feeling the pride of what goes on in the school. I want to talk to you like is an English principal in Bell's Butter Park. All hot rather our business if I could do all of them in the books. Spelling books, math books, curriculum and all hot rather software. What is this software like? Yes, yes. We do we sell we help Yeshivas We help them find curriculum that's appropriate that's standards aligned. We have different tracks that accommodate all different schools. We have a very knowledgeable team. We actually have a free newsletter that you could sign up for online. Send us an email. But we have a system that you could track with just scanning in sheets into into our system and it gives you data on the students, beautiful dashboards, beautiful reports for student scheduling. It's >> to be a special um No, this this this actually very very unique. You can have here a label that you can put on any sheet. This is like you can have the end of the week the the teacher gives a test. They put this on the sheet. They write in the score it's for the test and when you can scan the sheet in it reads the mark. It puts it in the student's folder. You're able to track progress. It's an amazing software we have already over 150,000 students that we're tracking in the software. We are in a many many moistures, many organizations. It's an amazing program. >> give it out like the Yeshiva test. Data privacy, data privacy. [laughter] We We have, yeah. We're We're We're Everything is perfect compliant. Um, it's an amazing, uh, program. You can reach out to find out more. Phone number? 718-285-7100 Extension 101, you'll reach me. Thank you. Their phone is a prison phone for the book room in the Yeshiva that break the phone every day. This phone they cannot break. It's called Why is it called a prison phone? >> Cuz it's made for the inmates in prison. It's stainless steel and they cannot do anything with it. No, no, no, no. They want them not break the phone so they get them cheaper phones. No, no. Wow. Imagine Some of them, yeah. When When >> [clears throat] >> When they keep on changing every week the phones, they finally take this phone. This is This is a dashboard for the book room in the Yeshiva. We give them phones and we give them mailboxes so with during Yeshiva in the middle of learning and the mother wants to reach them, they can leave them a message and we put a big dashboard in the hallway and they can see that they have a message and walk over to any of these phones and listen to the message. >> Wow. The message that she's asking. >> [laughter] >> This is a call button that in the in the classroom if there's an emergency and the the the the rabbi got goes crazy, he just pushes a button and it's going to call the menahel and we can talk right away. And he can even call even call his cell phone while he's driving and he can get But it has to be it's set to one number. >> It's No, no, it can go to a group of numbers. Uh, we also we have TAG. We're approved by TAG, so we have a special integration with TAG. TAG has a database of all the hotlines that's between the show center that are not that are not clean. They keep a database and we integrate with them. So, if you dial a number that's forbidden, they're automatically it's going to not going to let the call go through. If it's a kosher hotline, it's a kosher hotline. You could if it's approved, you could, but if not, then it's automatically The bottom line is we give you what you need. Not We're not selling you what we have. We we give you what you need, and that's what we sell you and we create everything custom to your needs. I love that. English. English. >> English. We develop interactive content and we do coordination of the whole and skills. So, it's very creative. The power of an interaction is mom's robotic. Makes it exciting for the kids. >> Kinder cannon. And the kids can navigate, go back. Test the kids and ask Yeah, so the way it works is that we have, let's say, a moist reaching out to us. They want a specific style of an interactive assessment tool. Other Yeah, especially at school. They want to do interactive activities on it. So, we create that. Official assessment batteries. We can make them interactive in Yiddish. It's a time the kinder. And basically, the the school alliance can Nine. It's a USB. It's actually a tablet. They get a tablet. They can have their own tablet. They lock it down. It has our app. It's I don't know so others in the remedial department others is for assessment others is taking a special at setting I'll be second leading of the one thing in the kindergarten dragon and in thing this activities besides this is a high school is named we will look the other what's the last thing she had bringing in the most of a screen of it Mr. Kinder schlepping this year as a touch the Kinder schlepping this so actually the iPad is locked down and it only opens up those hours this is and I I shall be saying you know the bits for market in the kingdom good anyways thank you so much Our phone number is 347-546-6168 [email protected] Okay this guy this guy or this guy who's going to be talking Everybody's scared to talk I'm just going to tell you what it is Actually I have a good talk I have a good talk to this company I work with the bottom and real estate business they have a company called iron rock security kick on this I do not want to mess with this guy Looks like the smash guy security guy now It's coming What what We also have the real guys walking around >> Really What's the phone number someone wants to reach out to your company My number is 732-674-6099 you can also reach out to the the regular office number or all over Google everything else very easy to find And that's it That's basically it Okay panel two can I give them I wish I have a Mr. Woodson guided giving scholarship tax credit Understand the law how to get prepared understand the timeline Put it in the mess How is this going to get with your financial aid? If you ask all the parents if we had parents in this room, how many people think that every single dollar that is newly raised should go to lower my tuition? 100%. Right? The only ones who say no are board members. Um they the Yes, all the executive directors they might say, "Oh really? I have to raise all this money every year." But % finally is uh you know, money came from shamayim and now when I have to raise maybe less money, it'll be a little easier to to beat the budget or raise or pay the salaries. Um this has to benefit the parents because unlike a subsidy from the government, in this case, if you want those parents to donate, if you want those parents to feel like they're there there's a reason for them to give to you and not the base yaakov down the block, which is offering that if we hit our billion dollar goal, tuition's frozen for 5 years or if we hit our goal that everyone's tuition's going down or if we hit our goal, you know, fill in the blank, why should they give to you who's saying everything's going to Office is a secured AI and it's Our AI was just guarded to some in the school for the school. I feel like they were stolen narratives for funding purposes. Just tell them what you need, give you the narrative for it. That's what came out. Other funds with the dots. Make sure that the software works for you and not that you work for the software. >> Do you have a phone number? 845-641-6266 Squire >> text with us. Ephraim, you got to see a little bit of what this expo is all about. How many hundreds of schools, all types, Yeshiva Meisters, Spanish Meisters, Modern Meisters, everyone comes together under the banner of Agudath Israel of America, and they learn how to make our Yeshivas better. We have this program every single year. Every year it gets bigger and bigger and better. And I'm not sure if next year we shall have Kodesh, we're going to have to take out an even bigger place. But thank you for coming. Squire