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Mazal tov
to Dr. Michael and Zehava Atlas on the birth of a baby girl this week!
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TABC in Tzahal
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Shlomo Kroopnick '17's tekes in Latrun.
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Save the Date
February 28, 2018
 Purim Night at TABC
Megillah,
Break Fast,
and Chagiga
Bring the family!
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Order Your
Mishloach Manot
from TAPA
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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:
with any questions.
Click
here for a listing of our current sponsors.
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Upcoming Events
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
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Family Purim Event
(See above)
March 1
Purim
No Sessions
March 12-13
Freshman Retreat
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Sunday Learning
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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!
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Friday Night Oneg
This week's Friday night oneg will take place at:
Rabbi Finkelstein's House
88 Lee Place
Bergenfield
8:15 PM - 10:00 PM
Students are encouraged to attend and enjoy a Friday night filled with Torah, ruach, good food, and friends.
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Israel Report
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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
for the latest issue of Eye of the Storm
Faculty Divrei Torah
Please click
here
for recordings of Divrei Torah by our esteemed faculty
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Parnas HaYom
We would like to thank
our recent sponsors
Annie & David Blumenthal
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
[email protected].
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Tweeting Up A STORM!
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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.
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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.
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Do You "Like" Us?
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 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.
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Chadashot is now archived on our website.
In case you missed a week you can click
here to view past issues.
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TABC Swag Store Now Open
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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.
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February 15, 2018 1 Adar 5778
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DEADLINE THIS SUNDAY!!
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 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.
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TABC Delegation to YUNMUN
Represents with Distinction
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 TABC's delegation to the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) represented their countries, and their school, with distinction. Coach Moshe Zharnest (himself a TABC alumnus of the class of 2005) proudly reported that the TABC students had 100% participation at davening and at every program, and that numerous YU staff and representatives from other schools told him how impressed they were with the TABC delegation.
 TABC's representatives won four awards, including two honorable mentions by Eli Rifkind '19 and Jacob Lerer '19, and two overall best delegates by Yonah Kilimnick '18 and Gabe Gerszberg '19. They came in 5th place for the overall conference and were number one among schools from Bergen County. TABC alumni also represented the school, as Azi Fine '15, Ariel Hochman '13 and Avi Strauss '12 were among those who helped run the event.
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Tani Greengart & Shlomi Helfgot
Named National
Merit
Scholarship
Finalists
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 Torah Academy of Bergen Country is proud to announce that two of our students, Tani Greengart and Sholmi Helfgot have been named as finalists in the2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Of the over 1.6 million students who entered the National Merit Scholarship program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Testm only about 15,000 Finalists throughout the nation have been recognized for their exceptional academic promise. All winners of Merit Scholarship® awards (Merit Scholar® designees) are chosen from the Finalist group based on their abilities, skills, and accomplishments-without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference. A variety of information is available for NMSC selectors to evaluate: the Finalist's academic record, information about the school's curricula and grading system, two sets of test scores, the high school official's written recommendation, information about the student's activities and leadership, and the Finalist's own essay.
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| Ionic Naming in Chemistry |
 This week Mrs. Kopel's chemistry class learned how to name compounds. The students played a card game: first they had to match up metals and nonmetals correctly, then they had to write down the formulas and names of the ionic compounds they created. The group with the most correctly named compounds won!
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| Mrs. Ruskin's Mitosis Lesson is Sweet |
In Mrs Ruskin's 9th grade biology classes, students learned all about the cell cycle and mitosis and modeled the stages of mitosis using candy! It was a delicious lesson!
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| A Puzzle in Mrs. Shavelson's Class |
Riddle me this: What does the new blockbuster film
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
have to do with
Oedipus Rex
? How is Elsa in
Frozen
a tragic hero? Mrs. Shavelson's English 9A can tell you as students gave presentations on traits of ancient Greek tragedy found in modern movies and TV shows. It is not only Oedipus the King who has Hubris and suffers a reversal of fortune (as well as an epiphany) as we in the audience experience all the symptoms of what Aristotle called "catharsis." Just about every modern work of film and fiction works this way. Long live Sophocles.
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| Thermal Physics in Mrs. Kopel's Class |
As 11G finished their study of thermal physics, they compared different ways to make popcorn. Using conduction, convection, and radiation, they popped popcorn kernels three different ways and compared the rates and types of heat transfer.
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Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier: What is Research?
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 The Olam HaChochma Distinguished Scholars Program had the great privilege of being visited by Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier. Rabbi Zuckier is currently a member of YU's prominent Kollel Elyon and a PhD student at Yale, receiving his degree in Ancient Jewish History. The topic of his presentation was not only relevant to Torah learning, but on research in general and especially what it means to research something on a Torah level. As do all typical scholars luncheons occur, we began the luncheon with food and after settling in, we began to delve into the topic on "The Importance of Research: What is Kapparah?" The first underlying question which was the basis of the presentation was the meaning of Kapparah. While some may think that this sounds like an odd time of year to be discussing pre-Yom Kippur minhagim, this is quite the opposite. What Mr. Zuckier explained is that Kapparah itself is not defined or even mentioned straight out in the Tanach, which is why one must begin to research, all according to the PhD candidate. Though a rough but evidently correct definition, Purgation is the true meaning of kapparah, but there's one issue, how do we connect this to research? The answer was first considered by looking at various sources in the Tanach, which only left a giant puzzle to piece together by connecting the Tanach's results with our rough definition. When examined, the chumash actually does allude to some connections. In Vayikra 4:26, the word כפר is represented as helping a Kohen render himself tahor. It shows up yet again in 16:16-17 when it is shown that the Kohen does כפרות and is מכפר the kodesh from any and all aveirot of Klal Yisroel on their behalf. While this may just seem like a giant load of mumbo jumbo with no point, have faith. These pesukim and a little research, all according to Mr. Zuckier, show that by carrying out such practices you come down to the main point of kapparah (aside from atonement), and that is atonement. Atonement's definition is the final question, which is when we had to consider all the facts. So we know the rough definition of כפרה, that it fixes both impurity and a relationship with Hashem. Perhaps the true definition is to mend our personal relationship with Hashem period. The true answer still lay a mystery, which is what Rabbi Zuckier dedicated the program to, to go beyond the facts and question. Questioning that leads to answers, but only through research. That, said Rabbi Zukier, is why we research, and whether it be Torah or Secular, we will always strive for an answer, one found through research.
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| Rabbi Jachter Delivers Shiur at YU |
 On Tuesday evening Rabbi Jachter delivered a Shiur at Yeshiva University in connection with the SOY Seforim Sale. Rabbi Jachter discussed why Hashem does not make open miracles in each geenration, a topic he addresses in his new book "Reason to Believe: Rational Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith", published by the Menorah imprint of Koren publications. A number of alumni joined the Shiur including Jacob Tepler '16 pictured with Rabbi Jachter.
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What a week for the STORM teams!!!
Congratulations to the JV and Varsity Hockey teams on their double header victories against Frisch last week. Read all about it in this
article written by our own Akiva Hain '19.
Congratulations to JV Hockey on their victory over Magen David in their first playoff game!
Congratulations to the JV Basketball team on their playoff victory against Heschel last night!
The Varsity Basketball team ended a well-played season last night, but stay tuned for news from their participation in the upcoming Sarachek tournament. |
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