School may have been out, but TABC's Beit Midrash remained open. Over the yeshiva break, TABC had tefillah and daily shiurim open to all high school boys in the community followed by open gym time. We are proud that our talmidim always feel that they can spend time in their home away from home. Click here for more photos.

Rabbi Yoni Mandelstam made a siyum on Mesechet Taanit on Thursday after he gave a shiur to the attendees.

 TABC's students showed off their culinary expertise at the annual Chulent Cookoff. The hallways were filled with sweet smell of chulent  on Thursday , as each team consulted their favorite recipes to prepare their chulent.  On Friday , the student body was able to sample their handiwork. The judges awarded best chulent to the team of sophomores Josh Miller, Ari Needle and Shlomo Gellman. Thank you to Grand and Essex for sponsoring many of the ingredients and to Mali Baer (Avi Baer's mother) for coordinating the ingredients for all the teams. For more photos click here.

Last Friday Rabbi Jachter spoke to the first year Semicha students at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary about teaching emunah to high school students.  Rabbi Jachter grappled with the dilemma as to whether high school rebbeim should address issues of emunah proactively or wait until students pose questions.  The compromise approach he presented was his hallmark organic integration of emunah within the usual learning of Tanach.  Rabbi Jachter presented three examples of well-received shiurim that taught emunah within a conventional Tanach learning framework.  The presentation was very well-received and we look forward to making this into an annual event.