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to be honoring 
Miriam & Ezra Lightman
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May 1
Yom HaZikaron

May 2
Yom Ha'Atzmaut

May 7
Incoming Students Placement Exam

May 10
Pesach Sheni

May 14
Lag B'Omer

May 15
Lab B'Omer Trips

May 18
Junior Spring College Fair

May 24
Yom Yerushalayim

May 29 - June 1
Memorial Day - Shavuot 
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June 2
Gemara Final
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9:30-11:30

June 4
Salute to Israel Parade

June 5
Last Day of Sessions
1:45 Dismissal

June 6
English Final
9:30 - 11:30

June 7
History Final
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June 8
Science Final
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June 9
Mathematics Final
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June 11
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June 12
Make-Up Exams
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Graduation
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June 19
Exam Return Hour
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April 28, 2017                                           2 Iyar 5777
TABC Commemorates Yom HaShoah 
with Moving Program
The Yom HaShoah program began with a bell signaling two minutes of silence and a marching drum beat that was played by Josh Lieman. Students, faculty, parents and grandparents assembled in the Beit Knesset where there were programs designed by illustrated by Ori Siegel. After opening remarks by Rabbi Adler, the candle lighting ceremony was introduced by Yechiel Mincis. Mendel Aizikovitch, Adam and Ezra Baron, Nachum Freedman, Menachem From, Hillel and Yehuda Koslowe  and Nathanael Vinar shared their families' stories and lit candles  in honor of those who are alive or in memory of those who have died.

A poem "Doomed Voyage" was written and dramatically read by Ari Lowy. Aviad Shely captivated the audience as he presented a "Student Perspective on the Shoah". 
 
Under the direction of Rabbi Raphi Mandelstam and with Yonatan Berner on the keyboard, the choir made up of Aviel Avidan, Ariel Bolour, Dovid Fertig, Menachem From, Asher Junger, Raanan Kimmel, Ari Lowy, Yechiel Mincis, Alex Neugroschl, Ephraim Poloner, Mo Proctor, Jacob Rosenfeld, Aviad Shely, Ori Siegel and Jacob Small performed the songs "In A Vinkele" and "Ani Ma'amin".
 
A pictorial presentation, produced by Asher Junger, Yonatan Berner and Adriel Bolour, was shown.
 
Our keynote speaker, Mr. George Blank, introduced by his grandson, Alex Ostrin '19, discussed the Shoah and the State of Israel. Rabbi Adler concluded the program with Kel Maleh.   The program was coordinated by Ms. Hoenig and Mrs. Moskovits. For more photos, click here.
BrainSTORM College Bowl Teams Prevail
The mighty minds of the College Bowl Brainstorm team prevailed again. At the championship matches, held at the Jewish Education Project Office in New York, on Tuesday night, April 25th, both the TABC Varsity and Junior Varsity teams took home the trophies for winning their respective divisions. Led by captains Yaakov Zinberg, Nathanael Vinar, and Avraham Kahan (Captain Shlomi Helfgot was in Israel, competing in the Chidon HaTanach, at the time), the Junior Varsity team defeated Heschel High School in their Semifinal match, and continued on to a Finals victory over Flatbush Yeshiva High School, capping off its second straight undefeated season.

The Varsity team (mostly made up of graduating students), led by captains Yehuda and Hillel Koslowe and by co-captain Zachary Ottenstein, beat Heschel in the Semifinals and then triumphed in their Finals showdown with Frisch to win the championship. Interestingly, the Varsity players themselves are finishing a championship three-peat after winning the Junior Varsity championship in each of the past two years. Special appreciation must be accorded to the seniors for their many years of stalwart, victorious accomplishments.

Inspired and directed by longtime coach Manny Landau, either one or both TABC teams have won the College Bowl championship in at least nine of the last ten years. Manny takes great pride in the accomplishments of the students and feels very fortunate to be associated with such fine young examples of mental might and menschlichkeit.
History Bowl Team Takes On The National History Bee 
Members of the History Bowl and Bee Team traveled to Arlington, Virginia this past weekend as they remain the only Yeshiva High School to compete in the National Championships of the History Bee and Bowl Competition. The Junior Varsity History Bowl Team once again won the Lorenz Cup, a preliminary team event to the overall competition held on Thursday afternoon. The team of Ephraim Helfgot '20, Daniel Rothstein '20 and Nathanael Vinar '19 took first place in the competition.  On Friday, four members of the team competed in the United States History Bee a competition which involved hundreds top history students in the country.  Nathanael Vinar led the junior varsity earning a spot in the Semi-final round. We are very proud of all the participants for their hard work and accomplishments.
TABC Nachat
Yehuda Koslowe '17 is  Presidential Scholar Semi-Finalist

Torah Academy of Bergen County is proud to announce that our senior Yehuda Koslowe was selected as one of 723 semifinalists to advance to the final round of the 2017 Presidential Scholarship competition.  Yehuda is the only Yeshiva High School student in the country to move on to the semifinals.  From nearly 3.5 million graduating high school seniors, only 723 semifinalists were selected.  Of the semifinalists the Commission will name the 161 United States Presidential Scholars.  

Shlomi Helfgot One of Sixteen Finalists in 
International Chidon HaTanach

TABC is proud to announce that Shlomi Helfgot '18 did so well on the preliminary test given at the Tanach Camp this week that he will be one of only 16 finalists on stage at The International Chidon HaTanach on Yom Ha'Atzmaut in Yerushalayim. We wish Shlomi much hatzlacha! You can watch live at www.iba.org.il. If the seven-hour time difference makes it hard for you to watch live, the video is normally archived later that day on the same website, and is also posted on YouTube. (Photo is from his appearance at last year's Chidon HaTanach.) 
Yaakov Zinberg Earns an Honorable Mention in the ASHG Essay Contest

National DNA Day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953. This year's DNA Day was on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. In connection with this day the American Society of Human Genetics' (ASHG) holds an annual contest.  This contest is open to students in grades 9-12 worldwide and asks students to examine, question, and reflect on important concepts in genetics. Essays are expected to be well-reasoned arguments indicative of a depth of understanding of the concepts related to the essay question. They are evaluated by ASHG members through three rounds of scoring.  This year there were submissions from 38 states and 21 countries. The Education Department at ASHG announced on Tuesday that Yaakov Zinberg had earned an Honorable Mention for his essay on Cystic Fibrosis.
Word Portraits in AP English Literature
Grappling with the dense and challenging prose of Joseph Conrad's early Modernist novella "Heart of Darkness," students in Mrs. Edelman's senior AP English class responded to the text in a dialectical journal. This format involves choosing passages from the text to comment on and ask questions about. In class, they were given an index card and markers and a simple instruction: choose 5 words and/or phrases from the text that you collected in your journal, and create a word portrait with them. The results made their thinking and visualizations about this very difficult text come to life for the entire class to see. For close-up pictures of each illustration, click here.
TABC Shares Chess Championship
In a tension packed room four teams competed for the chess championship of the Yeshiva League. It went down to the wire with TABC winning the final match to tie Ramaz and MTA for the top spot. Thanks to co-captains Yehuda and Hillel Koslowe and coach Bobby Kaplan for a great season. For more photos, click here.
Rav Maish Taragin Gives Shiur at TABC
The talmidim of Y17 and Y18 had the zechut of hearing a shiur by Rav Moshe Taragin of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Rav Taragin's shiur outlined the parameters of the issurim of Ba'al Yareah and Ba'al Y'matzei. It was a fitting bookend for the year, as the yeshiva's limmud of Messechet Pessachim is soon concluding. The shiur marked the second yarzheit of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein z'l and Rav Taragin incorporated both lomdus and hashkafa from Rav Aharon.  May Rav Aharon's Torah continue to guide us. For more pictures, click here.
Pink Day Gratitude