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TABC Annual Scholarship Breakfast

 

Sunday, May 22nd

9:30am

 

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Tani Greengart  
First in Bergen County in Chidon HaTanach
In addition to having four TABC students as finalists for the National Chidon HaTanach Championship, TABC is proud to announce that Tani Greengart '18 finished in first place in Bergen County.  Credit of course is due to Tani's tremendous efforts but also to coach Rabbi Neil Winkler, who prepares TABC students for Chidon via skype from his Jerusalem home.  Thank you, as well, to Rabbi Jachter for coordinating TABC's participation in the Chidon.    
TABC Track Takes All
TABC swept Frisch, Ramaz and SAR in the season's first track meet held March 27. After winning the Fall cross-country meets, TABC continued its winning ways in the regular track event. Thanks to Zach Greenberg for organizing the TABC STORM.

All-Star Basketball Game

TABC was well represented at this year's basketball All-Star game festivities: 
Junior VarsityThree players were selected to participate in All Star Sunday. They were Efrayim Saks, Yonatan Fine and Avi Proctor. All three represented TABC with great distinction. Of special note was Avi Proctor's capturing the 3-point championship of the entire JV league.
VarsityOur selected players were Tai Gerszberg, Shua Naor, Gavi Smith and Mo Proctor. Shua was forced to miss this event (due to a scheduling conflict) and the other three players did TABC very proud. Tai Gerszberg was named Most Valuable Player in the all star game. Coach Robert Hoenig coached the JV and Varsity All Star teams.
Parent- Son Learning

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Sunday Learning

Sunday morning shiur with Rabbi Wiener is on!

8:50 AM Donuts & OJ
9 - 9:45 AM Shiur
in the Auxiliary Lunch Room


Israel Report

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Kol Torah

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Upcoming Events

April 7
Late Night Learning
7PM

April 21 - May 1
Pesach Vacation

Parnas HaYom

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Semmelman All-Star Game Coming Soon

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Seeking Parent Volunteers

Family involvement at TABC is critical to our success. We are so grateful for the contributions that parents and alumni make of their time, skills and resources. We invite you to participate by joining one of our active committees for this school year. Please click here to see how you can get involved.

TABC Torah Available Globally

 

 Each week a new D'var Torah by one of our esteemed faculty members will be available online at  www.yutorah.org/tabc
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April 1, 2016                 22 Adar II 5776
Chessed Activities at TABC
BALTIMORE CHESSED TRIP

This week, TABC took a special chessed trip to Baltimore. Our students started at the Holocaust Museum in DC.  The group met with a 99 year old survivor and  toured  an exhibit about the significant role the average person played in bringing about the Holocaust. The group then traveled to Baltimore where Rabbi Brull, one of the founders of Ahavas Yisroel,  spoke to them about all the Tzedaka which his organization provides for the community. He stressed the sensitivity and concern they have not to embarrass anyone or make anyone feel uncomfortable in any way. The next morning, the group davened at Ner Yisroel and had a shmooze from Rabbi Yissocher Frand. They then went to a homeless shelter where they prepared, served and cleaned up lunch. It was then back to NJ, where they heard from Dr. Joe and Lori Rozehzadeh, the founders of the Bikkur Cholim house near Kessler, a rehab facility.  Dr. Rozehzadeh spoke about how he began the organization.  The students stayed to sing and dance with the patients in Kessler. The group really gained  an appreciation for how fortunate they are, and a heightened sensitivity towards the needs of others.  For more photos, click here.



JUNIOR CHESSED DAY

As part of our year-long Chessed program, the juniors  continued TABC's tradition of  a commitment to chessed this week. Over the course of the day, one group helped pack meals in the Masbia Soup Kitchen. The boys were amazed when people started lining up outside an hour before the distribution time. Many of the recipients thanked the TABC group for their work on their behalf. Another  group visited the Alzheimer's unit in the JCC on the Palisades, where they sang, danced and played games with the patients there. They had the opportunity to talk to the residents and learn from their life experiences. The third group packed "Shabbos in a Box" packages for Chesed 24/7, an organization that provides kosher food for patients and their relatives who are staying in hospitals. This is a particularly challenging time for the organization as they strive to maintain their regular services while also preparing a separate line of provisions for Pesach. Working together in near perfect harmony, the group managed to prepare 400 boxes for Pesach. For more photos, click here.

TABC Blood Drive a
Huge Success
In yet another act of Chessed, TABC had this year's second, and very successful, blood drive obtaining over 65 units of much needed blood.  Thank you to our sponsors who supported our student donors and staff: Poppy's, Dunkin Donuts, EJ's, Chopstix, and Schnitzel Plus.
We had an incredible team on the blood drive committee.  Thank you Josh Deschino, Sam Eisenstadter, Avi Finkelstein, Yehoshua Segal, Yosef Segal, Ariel Forman, Asher Junger and Andrew Haberman.  We hope that our students will continue to donate in their future endeavors here and in Eretz Yisrael. For more photos, click here.





Y14 Siyum a Big Hit
Y14 Gemara finished the 4th perek of Brachot b'iyun (in depth). Students went to Votee Park to play softball, followed by a festive seudat mitzvah at Dougie's, where Avigdor Schiffman '16 and Rabbi Malitzky shared inspiring words of Torah.
Three TABC Boys
Receive Trophies for
Envision Shakespeare
Competing in Envision Shakespeare 2016 against six other yeshiva high schools by performing Act One, scene three, from Macbeth, landed us the "best actor" award, and this week we received our trio of trophies awarded to not one but all three of the witches----Benjy Kleiner, Ike Bazian and Shai Gutfreund. Magnificent performances were also given by Binyamin Novetsky as Macbeth, Eli Dickman as his right-hand man Banquo, and the king's messengers, Yaakov Kagel as Angus and Yehoshua Kanarek as Ross. All of us, including director Netanel Arussy and faculty advisor Dr. Carol Master, thank Mrs. Rebecca Lopkin and our own Mrs. Nancy Edelman for creating and producing this magnificent event.
Film Producer Visits
Ms. Burstein's Class
Yitzchak Hoppenstein spoke to the twelfth grade students about the development of his short film, for which he received funding via Kickstarter. Yitzy wrote and is acting in, directing, and producing his film. He spoke to our students about his writing process as well as the arduous production process. He gave advice about how to find a meaningful career and how to enhance creative talent.
Professor Clifford Stein Lectures Calculus Classes
Professor Clifford Stein of Columbia University gave lectures to the students in AP AB and BC Calculus and Pre-Calculus on his major fields of computer science and operations research. 

In his first lecture, Professor Stein presented a problem about a presidential candidate who must decide how to spend his money on different advertising options in order to obtain the maximum number of votes. He also introduced the concept of an algorithm, which is a list of instructions to the computer to produce a  desired result.

In the second lecture, Professor Stein spoke about the design of Google maps and the algorithms necessary for computers to generate the routes. He used, as an example, the best way to travel from TABC to San Francisco.
The students enjoyed the lectures, which broadened their knowledge and expanded their understanding of the many applications of computer science. Many students stayed after the lecture to ask questions and continue the discussion. Professor Stein is the son of Mrs. Irene Stein.
Sophomore Night Out
Sophomore Night Out was a wonderful bonding experience. After  a Chinese dinner in TABC, the sophomores boarded the buses to the Prudential Center to watch the Devils play the Boston Bruins. Our talmidim had their priorities straight, as they davened Ma'ariv together between periods. After watching an exciting Devils win, they we able to walk on the ice after the game. For more photos, click here.

Rabbi Dr. Schnall 
Authors Scholarly Article
Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Schnall, TABC faculty member and clinical associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva University, recently authored an article entitled "Jewish Stories in Mental Health Counseling." His work appears in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge of Taylor & Francis. The article explores the potential benefits of incorporating classic Jewish stories into psychotherapy (especially cognitive-behavioral therapy), offering specific suggestions for integrating this approach into clinical practice.  Click here for a PDF of the article, with permission of the publishers.
Alumni Pride
Kudos to TABC alumnus (and Harvard Law School graduate) Chaim Kagedan '99 for his second involvement with a United States Supreme Court case.  Chaim, highly regarded as a rising star in the legal world, was once again asked by the legendary Orthodox attorney Nathan Lewin to assist him with a Jewish issue related to the Supreme Court.  In the current case, Chaim presented an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting an exception to statute of limitation due to litigation in a Beit Din. In this brief (attached), Chaim describes the role of a Beit Din and its impact on both the observant Jewish community and the American judicial system.  A thank you to Rabbi Jachter for providing Chaim with materials and information that helped him prepare this brief. The well-written piece, which you can see here, provides compelling reading for those in the legal profession or anyone who is interested in the synergistic relationship between Beit Din and the American legal system.  

On a personal note, Mazal Tov to Chaim and his wife Heather on the recent birth of their daughter  Liana Carmel.  The TABC family is enormously proud of Chaim, whom we should note is a regular attendee and vigorous participant in alumni lunch and learns held in New York City.