Rabbi Yakov Horowitz is the founder and Menahel of Yeshiva Darchei Noam of Monsey, and founder and Director of Agudath Israel’s Project Y.E.S. (Youth Enrichment Services), and is recognized throughout the Jewish community as an authority on raising children in these troubled times. His bold and insightful presentations, tapes and articles have helped to mold a generation of parents and educators. He is the author of best-selling parenting tape, CD, and DVD sets and is a regular contributor on Torah, educational and parenting topics to The Jewish Observer, The Jewish Press, Yated Ne’eman, and Hamodia. He attended Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaas, where he developed a close relationship with Hagoan Horav Avrohom Yaakov Pam z’tl. He served as 8th grade rebbi for 15 years, in Boro Park, Brooklyn and later in Monsey, New York.

In September 1997, Rabbi Horowitz founded Yeshiva Darchei Noam of Monsey, a yeshiva noted for its positive and child-centered learning environment. Darchei Noam provides its talmidim with an excellent, academically challenging Limudei Kodesh and General Studies programs that are structured and skills-based. The motto of the Yeshiva is “Inspiring our children today for the challenges of tomorrow.” In recognition of Yeshiva Darchei Noam’s commitment to educational excellence, the Boston-based PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) Foundation awarded a 3-year Challenge Grant to Darchei Noam for the 2002-05 school years. Rabbi Horowitz was awarded the 2002 Rockland Educator of the Year Award, and received national recognition as a recipient of the coveted Grinspoon-Steinhart Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.

He authored a searing article in the May '96 issue of The Jewish Observer, titled “An Ounce of Prevention,” which galvanized the Orthodox community to address the issue of at-risk teens. Rabbi Horowitz was invited to address the 1996 National Conventions of Agudath Israel and Torah Umesorah on the at-risk teen issue. Rabbi Moshe Sherer z’tl, the legendary and dynamic president of Agudath Israel of America enlisted the assistance of Rabbi Horowitz, who founded Project Y.E.S., (Youth Enrichment Services) which utilizes its hotline to assist at-risk teens and their parents with referrals, school and job placements, and a ‘big brother and sister’ teen mentoring program. Project YES has helped countless teens regain their footing continue on the path to leading productive and accomplished lives.

Over the past 7 years, Rabbi Horowitz conducted more than 200 parenting classes in 50 communities and 40 schools throughout North America, Europe and Eretz Yisroel (Israel). He is the author of several best-selling parenting tape sets, “Realizing your Parenting Potential”, “Of Home and Heart”, and “What Matters Most”.

Rabbi Horowitz remains attuned to the needs of Jewish communities, and the quest of families who wish to improve their parenting skills and family ties. More than 230 people attended his 2001 "Life After Teshuvah” Conference in Passaic, New Jersey -- intended to provide newly religious (ba'alei teshuvah) families with lifecycle support – assistance in raising their families, dealing with their adolescent children, maintaining ties with non-religious relatives, among other topics. Presenters included, Rabbis Shmuel Kaminetsky, Avrohom Braun, Shlomo Goldberg, Yaacov Haber, Yisroel Rokowsky, and Yakov Horowitz. In 2004, he created a premarital course – Bayis Ne’eman – to help young men and women prepare for the responsibilities of married life. The 10-hour course includes opening remarks from Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky s’hlita, and classes in goal-setting, time management, interpersonal relationships, Torah perspective on marriage, and financial planning.