In This Issue
V'Shavu Rabbanim L'TABC

V'shavu rebbeim l'TABC!!! We were thrilled to welcome back Rabbi Nosson Rich today. He was here in his role as Senior Ra"m at Torat Shraga in Israel.

Save the Date
February 28, 2018
Purim Night at TABC
Megillah,
Break Fast,
and Chagiga

Bring the family!

Order Your
Mishloach Manot
from TAPA
It's almost Purim! Celebrate by giving Mishloach Manot to the faculty and staff of TABC and Sinai with a personalized greeting from your son(s). This is a great way to support our school and acknowledge everyone who helps enhance our boys' high school experience. This year, we're striving for 100% participation from all TABC families.
We are hoping to include everyone in the greeting....but we can't do it without your cooperation.

Please join our growing list of sponsors.
Your family can be included with a contribution of only $36 or, choose one of the following sponsorship levels. We welcome your support at any level!

$180 Queen Esther
$136 Mordechai
$100 Megillah
$72 Hamantaschen
$54 Gragger
$36 Seuda

Please click here to sponsor online with your credit card or you can pay by check payable to TAPA and send to the school office (clearly marked TAPA), or mail your check to:

Esty Shafar
1274 Dickerson Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666

DEADLINE: 
Sunday, February 25th

Feel free to email tapa@tabc.org 
with any questions.

Click here for a listing of our current sponsors.


Upcoming Events

February 13
7:00 PM
Sophomore Guidance Program

February 16-19
President's Day Weekend
No School

February 19
Legal Holiday Shiur
(See flyer below)

February 23 - 24
Project Recharge Shabbaton

February 26

February 28
Ta'anit Esther
1:45 Dismissal
~
Family Purim Event
(See above)

March 1
Purim
No Sessions

March 12-13
Freshman Retreat

Sunday Learning

Sunday morning shiur 
is on!
             
8:50 AM Donuts & OJ
9 - 9:45 AM Shiur
in the Auxiliary Lunch Room
 
Join us and you get 1.5 hours of Night Seder Credit!

Friday Night Oneg

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting two Friday night Onegs this week. Students are invited to Rabbi Miretzky's home or to join Rabbi Raphi Mandelstam at the Rothwachs home. Please see below for address information.

The Miretzky Home
317 Manning Place
Bergenfield
8:15 PM - 10:00 PM

The Rothwachs Home
288 Schley Place
Teaneck
8:15 PM - 10:00 PM

Students are encouraged to attend and enjoy a Friday night filled with Torah, ruach, good food, and friends.
Israel Report
Please click here for the latest issue of the Israel Report

Kol Torah
Please click here for the latest issue of Kol Torah

Eye of the Storm
Please click  here
 for the latest issue of Eye of the Storm

Faculty Divrei Torah
Please click  here  for recordings of Divrei Torah by our esteemed faculty


Parnas HaYom

We would like to thank 
our recent sponsors

Chava & Ephraim Casper

Sharon & Ari Wieder

Aliza & Benjamin Goldstein

Helen & Rubin Davis

To dedicate a day of learning or for other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Sharon Rifkind, Director of Development & Communications at 201.837.7696 x123  or sharon.rifkind@tabc.org.

Tweeting Up A STORM!

 Please follow the Student Activities Page on Twitter @TABC_Activities.  Rabbi Miretzky, our Student Activities Director, will be tweeting all about the excitement going on at TABC.

Double Your Support of Our Yeshiva

Do you work for AIG? Goldman Sachs? Quest Diagnostics? Pfizer? One of the many other companies listed  here ? Did you know that hundreds of companies throughout the US offer matching gifts to qualified  501(c)(3) organizations? Please inquire about matching your gift to TABC. For question, reach to Sharon Rifkind about Matching Gifts today.

Do You "Like" Us?
If you haven't yet, now is great time to "like" us on Facebook, and see our announcements, 
photo galleries, 
and more, in real time.



Chadashot is now archived on our website. 
In case you missed a week you can click here to view past issues.

TABC Swag Store Now Open

The TABC Apparel Store hosted by TAPA is now open online! More items are being added, so check back regularly!
Click  here or on the link at the top of the TABC website to be directly taken to the store.

The Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael wrestling team from Atlanta is coming in for the Wittenberg tournament on Presidents Weekend. 
They are 5 wrestlers (high schoolers), 6-7 coaches, and a couple who is chaperoning. They will be coming in Thursday afternoon and leaving Monday morning. Their coach would like them to have a nice shabbos experience while they are here. They are looking for housing for Thursday night through Sunday, and meals only for Shabbat.

Please let Yael Davidovics know if you could help, how many people you can host and if just for sleeping or meals as well.

Please feel free to forward to anyone else who you think may be interested in hosting.
 
February 9, 2018                                  24 Shevat 5778

We are on our way to  reaching  our goal of 100% participation in our Scholarship Fund campaign! Thank you to the many parents, alumni parents, alumni, grandparents and friends who have already donated.

Please take the time NOW to join our growing list of donors by clicking here to donate to our Scholarship Fund. 

You are all are invited and encouraged to join  us at our Annual Dinner on February 26th. It will be a fun night out with an enjoyable program, delicious food, good company and nachat!

Click here to make your donation and/or reservation today!


Click here for our growing list of Scholarship Fund donors.
Pink Day Raises Thousands at TABC
Pink Day is back!! TABC was a sea of pink, as the school raised awareness of and money for breast cancer. The day began with Director of Admissions and Marketing, P'nina Seplowitz, describing the work of the non-profit organization Better Future For Israel, one of the recipients of the tzedaka raised for Pink Day. BFFIsrael supports a number of educational projects and social programs in Israel to spread awareness of the disease and the value of early detection among ultra-orthodox communities. She was followed by Shera Dubitsky, former Director of Navigation and Support Services for Sharsheret, who poignantly described how seemingly small actions can have a large impact. After highlighting the stories of  several teenagers who have made a huge impact on society such as Anne Frank and Louie Braille, she concluded with a message of hakarat hatov to TABC alumnus Tzvi Solomon '09, who, when he was a teenager, created the idea of Pink Day together with TABC Learning Specialist & Pink Day Coordinator Donna Hoenig. After the annual Pink Day picture and pink doughnuts, the entire yeshiva went to shiurim on topics related to health and halacha. Thank you to seniors Mattias Csillag, Yonatan Sturm, Akiva Wieder and Yaakov Wieder, juniors Elli Spinowitz and Noah Miller, sophomores Sam Weinberg, Josh Miller, Menachem Kravetz and Daniel Jaffe, and freshmen Daniel Dresdner, Yair Levie, Eitan Mermelstein, and Ashi Norman for all of their efforts, which resulted in raising over $4,000 for tzedaka!

Click here for a video of the presentations, here for a special Pink Day shiur by Rabbi Daniel Fridman entitled חסיד שוטה: Pink Day Reflections on the Importance of Screening, and for more photos click here.
AP Bio Uses Bioengineering Techniques
This week in Mrs. Ruskin's AP Biology lab, students used bioengineering techniques to insert a jellyfish green fluorescent protein gene into  E. coli  bacteria. The experiment was a huge success, and thousands of fluorescent bacterial colonies were produced! Click here for more photos.
JV and Varsity College Bowl Teams
Remain Undefeated
Continuing their winning ways, both the Junior Varsity and Varsity College Bowl Teams swept all their opponents at the most recent meet this week held at Frisch. The Varsity and JV teams came out on top in each of their matches with significant victories over Frisch, Hillel, and Kushner.

Guided and shaped by the strong yet caring leadership of veteran coach Manny Landau, the Varsity team primarily consists of seniors, while the Junior Varsity team is made up of students from 9th to 11th grades. Varsity is led by captains Yaakov Zinberg, Shlomi Helfgot and Yonatan Kurz, while JV is headed by Captains Nathanael Vinar, Avraham Kahan, and Ephraim Helfgot.
Rabbi Yablok Teaches About Brit Milah
Several of the Mishna shiurim are learning the perek in Shabbat of Rabbi Eliezer D'milah, dealing with the rules of brit milah in general and specifically on Shabbat. Head of School Rabbi Yablok is an experienced mohel and he shared with the talmidim stories of how he trained, how a brit milah is done and a lesson of commitment that can be learned from the practice of brit milah. 
Book Day Launch
On Wednesday, January 3rd, all congregated in the Beit Knesset, the launching site for Book Day 2018. As rockets blasted on the screen courtesy of a video on the history of space exploration, we announced our selection for this year, The Martian, by Andy Weir, a story of one man who uses his ingenuity and humor to survive his lone ordeal on Mars.

The Martian (Classroom Edition) is one book of four that were read over the summer by our Student and Faculty Book Day Committees. It follows a long line of inspiring books and Book Days at TABC, since its inception in 2011. Book Day is coordinated by Mrs. Leah Moskovits and Dr. Carol Master.
Parents of Sophomores
Guidance Program
Please join us Tuesday night, February 13th at 7:00 P.M. for a guidance program which will include presentations from Rabbi Steven Finkelstein (Director of Guidance), Rabbi Ezra Wiener (Judaic Studies Principal and Director of Israel Guidance), Dr. Michael Atlas (Director of Student Support Services), Dr. Garry R. Katz (Director of College Guidance) and a representative of The Kaplan Test Prep company who will discuss standardized testing including the ACT and the SAT.  This is an important program for sophomore parents to attend.  
Mrs. Kopel's Chemistry Class
Studies Periodic Table
This week in 10G students used an interactive online periodic table to find trends in electronegativities, ionization energies, and atomic radii of elements on the periodic table. They then discussed, using their knowledge of chemistry, why each trend fits with the properties of elements. 
Junior Elective Conducts Independent Scientific Research Projects
In Mrs. Ruskin's Junior Research Elective class, students are working in teams on independent scientific research projects. Students designed and are implementing their own experiments, which are extremely diverse, including investigations of copper uptake and protein production in redworms, the gas-binding properties of heme proteins extracted from spinach, hydrolysis of acidified water, engineering a device to harness energy from the heating and cooling of various substances, and the physics of ballistas!
STORM Report
What a week for the STORM teams!!!

Check out the article TABC Wins Back to Back Double Headers in The Jewish Link of NJ. Mazal tov to both hockey & both basketball teams on this incredible feat!

Mazal tov to JV & Varsity Hockey teams for their victories over Frisch this week!

TABC wrestlers dominated the exhibition match this week against DRS. Many of the matches ended with a successful pinning of the opponent. DRS wrestlers fought hard, but the night belonged to The Storm! 





Lone Soldier Support
Please join us on March 12th for a special opportunity for parents of current and future Lone Soldiers to get together and hear from Nefesh B'Nefesh FIDF Lone Soldiers Program.
The meeting will be held in Bergenfield, NJ. For RSVP and address please respond to dassahdk@gmail.com
Upcoming Events