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STORM REPORT
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Congratulations to the STORM JV Hockey team on their 4-0 victory against MTA!
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For the third straight year, the TABC cross country track team has taken home first place in the Yeshiva League.
Senior Yaakov Weider placed first finishing the 5k in 21:25, sophomore Ezra Seplowitz came in a close second at 21:28 and senior Yaakov Zinberg placed third on the team with a time of 25:48. Thanks to coaches Benjy Shulman and Jesse Seidman!
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Thank You!
Thank you to the Sapadin family for hosting our Englewood
Parlor Meeting for prospective parents on Monday night.
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Thank you to the Bruschansky family for hosting our Rockland County Parlor Meeting for prospective parents on Wednesday night.
An extra thank you for the beautiful blue & yellow spread of goodies, including homemade TABC & STORM cookies!
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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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Upcoming Events
November 18
Sophomore Night In
November 19
Rabbi Fridman in
Highland Park
(See flyer)
November 22
Thanksgiving Eve
3:30 Dismissal
November 23 - 34
Thanksgiving Vacation
November 27
Parent-Teacher Conferences
No Sessions
December 4
Sophomore Night Out
December 11
Parent-Son Learning
December 18-19
Chanukah Vacation
December 26
Jewish Life on Campus Program
(For 11th & 12th grade students & their parents)
7:30 - 9:30 PM
December 28
Asara B'Tevet
12:50 Dismissal
January 1
New Year's Day
No School
January 11
Last Day of Sessions
1:25 Dismissal
January 12-17
Midterm Examinations
January 17-28
Sessions Resume
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Friday Night Oneg
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This week's oneg will take place at:
the home of
Rabbi & Mrs. Finkelstein
88 Lee Place
Bergenfield
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
We look forward to seeing our talmidim there!
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Parnas HaYom
We would like to thank our recent anonymous sponsors who sponsored the entire week.
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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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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Save the Date for The Annual Dinner
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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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REFUAH SHLEIMA
Refuah shleima to Rabbi Joel Grossman, who is out recovering from knee surgery.
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November 17, 2017 28 Cheshvan 5778
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Happy Thanksgiving from the entire administration, faculty & staff.
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Ted Comet, a Man Who Made History,
Speaks to TABC About Kristallnacht
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 On Monday, November 13, TABC gathered together to honor the memory of those whose lives were forever changed due to Hitler's enactment of "The Night of Broken Glass", known as Kristallnacht. We were honored to hear from Ted Comet who was an executive at the Joint Distribution Committee, which helped to rehabilitate and support war orphans including Elie Wiesel. His work with the Joint took him to many countries in order to rebuild their Jewish communities, such as USSR, Eastern Europe, and Ethiopia. Ted also was the founder/chairman of the Celebrate Israel Parade.
Mr. Comet enriched Mrs. Reichardt's Holocaust class by answering many questions about America's Jewish community involvement during the war.
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TABC & NCSY Aid Disaster Relief
in Houston
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 TABC joined with NCSY to send a chesed mission to Houston last week. The group of TABC students, together with several public school students, worked to remove furniture and demolish moldy walls in homes affected by the hurricane. They went to the Aishel House to do bikur cholim by delivering packages to patients there and helped bring chizuk to the families with ruach throughout Shabbat. Actor Dennis Quaid visited our group during their work. The appreciative Houston residents were so inspired by our chesed that they treated our students to two meals during their stay. On the lighter side, the group was able to take a break from their hard work by enjoying some time at Dave and Busters and taking in a Houston Rockets game. For more great photos, click here.
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Economics Class Learns About the Fed
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Can learning about the functions and operations of the Federal Reserve be entertaining and enjoyable? Apparently it can, if a "chiller Miller" visits your class to explain it all! On Wednesday, Nov. 15th,
The 12th grade Introductory Economics course began their study of the role of the Federal Reserve with special guest speaker, Mr.
Jeffrey
Miller
, husband of our own Allison
Miller
, of the English department. Having worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York for several years, Mr.
Miller
shared his insights about the Fed and its role in our economy. In his presentation, Mr.
Miller
related the role played by the Fed in dealing with both past and present day economic crises. It is is always so exciting for students to hear and see "real life" examples of the various theories and concepts being covered in their classes. Mrs. Reichardt and her students are very grateful to Mr.
Miller
for spending his time enriching their learning experience.
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Mrs. Shavelson's English 10A has Just Crossed Over into the Twilight Zone
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Seeing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through the lens of science fiction, students viewed an episode of Rod Serling's iconic and cult TV show with an eye to the moral limits of science and the questionable ethics of technology. Articles on cloning, genetically modified crops, neuroscience that is changing the way our brains work, and Big Data that threatens our free will are further supplementing Mary Shelley's masterpiece.
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The halls of TABC were buzzing with activity right after Shabbat, as freshmen and their senior mentors came for Freshman Night In. The Freshmen were broken into teams and took part in a round robin of volleyball, ultimate handball, ga ga and soccer. After an intense night of sports, everyone enjoyed a melava malka. It was a night of bonding between the freshmen, their seniors mentors and the teachers who came to take part in the festivities.
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10th Graders Learn the Charles Law
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 This week the sophomore classes started learning about the different gas laws in chemistry. Just like Jacques Charles, a French balloonist from the 1800's, students used balloons to measure the change in volume of a gas when they changed the temperature. Students used balloons attached to Erlenmeyer flasks and measured the change in volume of the balloon when they moved it from a cold ice bath to hot baths at different temperatures. It was a fun way to learn a gas law through an experiment.
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Holocaust Studies Class Visits
Museum of Jewish Heritage
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 On Tuesday, Nov.14th, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park hosted students in the senior elective Holocaust Studies class for a very special
yom iyun
. The day's program began as students were divided into two groups for docent-led tours of t
he museum's core exhibit about the destruction of European Jewry. Both docents were impressed by the students' knowledge concerning many of the topics covered in the exhibit and the insightful questions which they asked.
After a short lunch break, the highlight of the day was the talk by Holocaust survivor, Ruth Pagursky.
Not a sound could be heard in the room when the students sat captivated, as she spoke about her horrific experiences. Her message was clear - she was a
survivor, not a victim
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Although it was so difficult for the class to end their time
with Ruth,
an added "bonus" for the day's program was a tour of the special visiting exhibit,
Operation Finale: The Capture and T
rial of Adolf Eichmann
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It was fascinating to learn just how the Israeli government was able to track do
wn the "engineer of the Final Solution." This was truly an
interactive experience as students were able to examine Mossad artifacts from the operation itself. Mrs. Reichardt, instructor of this special course, would once again like to thank Dr. Paul Radensky, Director of Education at the museum (and parent of TABC alumni Asher '11 & Binyamin '15) for arranging this special day for her students. Many thanks to Ms. Hoenig for accompanying Mrs. Reichardt and her group.
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Debate About the Future of High School,
with Dr. Master's AP English Class
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 The future of high school--sounds like a serious topic on which serious high schoolers should have some serious thoughts. In preparation for writing a synthesis essay, in which students read multiple sources about an issue but then must develop their own argument about it, Dr. MAster asked her AP English Language and Composition students to weigh in on this quite relevant topic. First we turned to Donovan Livingston, the student speaker at the Harvard School of Education graduation, whose poem "Lift Off" provided us with much food for thought. Then we heard from Prince Ea whose student recommended video putting education on trial further hooked us into the topic. Shortly after, each student read multiple articles by such writers as Leon Botstein, Horace Mann, Nicholas Wyman and Amanda Ripley, paying the most careful attention to one of the assigned articles. Soon, all who were responsible for the same article were busy discussing its contents in peer groups, after which they acted as emissaries in mixed groups, speaking from the "I" point of view. Once everyone understood the basic issues in the articles and had a point of view about them, we were ready for a fishbowl discussion, with inner and outer groups, tossing around such issues as technology in the classroom, vocational high schools, even paying students to attend school . What is the future of American high schools?Many students expressed an interest in individualized education and choice of curriculum. With such lively interest in the topic, I decided to pose the same question to my Public Speaking class in which we were beginning our next topic-- persuasive speeches on questions of policy. The students had many thoughts on policies they would change in high school but the dual ideas of course choice and practicality figured high on their list. Even though the bell rang and the class was over, the debate certainly was not.
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 14 TABC alumni and Mr. P joined 35,000 Jews and spent a beautiful and meaningful Shabbat in the holy city of Chevron for Shabbat
Chevron commemorating the purchase of
Ma'arat HaMachpela by our forefather Avraham. They spent quality time together
davening, eating meals with uplifting
z'mirot and inspiring
divrei Torah, participating in various
ongei Shabbat and participating in informational tours.
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Jerry Karp '05 Visits TABC
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 Rabbi Jachter's Torah and Science class had the privilege to hear from a most distinguished guest speaker - Dr. Jerry Karp '05, who is earning his MD-PhD at Albert Einstein School of Medicine.
Dr. Karp spoke with the students about how he finds the various resolutions of Torah and Science offered by Dr. Aviezer and Dr. Feit to be reasonably satisfying and he shared how he has made his peace with evolution and cosmology. Dr. Karp also spoke about surviving and even thriving as an Orthodox Jew in a mostly non-observant environment.
Dr. Karp is married to Dr. Atira Karp, father of two young girls (with another child on the way b'sha'ah tovah). In addition to his academic pursuits, he is editing a work on Torah and Halacha which he brought to Rabbi Jachter for his review.
A true model for our students, it was a great honor to host Dr. Karp upon his return to his beloved alma mater!
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TABC Varsity STORM Team Travels to LA
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The STORM Varsity Basketball team traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a tournament named for Mr. Steve Glouberman Z"L, a true mensch who taught what it means to be a team player both on and off the court.
On Thursday, the Storm played two preliminary games to determine seeding. The first game was played against the Israeli team Elitzur from Petach Tikvah. After a hard fought game, the team eventually fell in overtime. The second game of the afternoon was played against the tournament favorite, Valley Torah High School. Our team played one of their best games of the tournament, hitting almost all of their shots. Unfortunately, we succumbed to the superior talent of VTHS, led by nationally recruited player Ryan Turell, and lost by three. Thursday night there was a memorial tribute to Steve Glouberman and a program of short videos introducing the participating schools. Another highlight of the evening was listening to Thomas Bryant, the 42nd pick in last year's draft, speak about the challenges of college, draft day and shuttling between the G-League and the NBA. Bryant was coached by TABC's very own Coach Oz in his youth.
Friday morning was also jam packed with basketball games. After davening Shacharit with Northwest Yeshiva HS from Seattle, we met them on the court. As Coach Oz put it, the team played their most complete game ever. Led by senior Eli Harcsztark's 22 points, the STORM won in a blowout. The victory set up a second round matchup with rival Frisch. The team kept it close in the first half, but eventually ran out of gas in the second half.
Friday night we were welcomed into the Kent family home for davening and a wonderful dinner. Afterwards, all tournament participants met at the Beth Jacob Synagogue for an oneg. Guest speaker, David Blu, a Jewish basketball star who played at USC and in Israel for the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, spoke about finding intrinsic motivation for all the things that we do.
After a beautiful and restful Shabbat the team was on the move. On Sunday, after a BBQ at a local park, we traveled to the LA Colosseum to watch the LA Rams host the Houston Texans and then traveled to the UCLA Health Training Center to watch Thomas Bryant and the South Bay Lakers take on the Texas Legends. A special thank you to Efrem Gerszberg for sponsoring these events.
Throughout the games and Shabbaton, players had the opportunity to make new lasting friendships, interact in competitive basketball and enjoy fun filled few days of competition and camaraderie.
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Rami Goldberg '98 Visits TABC
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 This past Friday TABC was honored with a visit from Rami Goldberg '98. Rami distinguished himself at TABC as a ben Torah as well as the starting goalie who led TABC to its first ever hockey championship. Rami has since made aliyah to Ramat Beit Shemesh where he lives with his wife and five children. Rami delivers a weekly Chaburah to Lev HaTorah talmidim and serves as the CEO of
Optimal IP, a broker for international patent attorneys. Rami has hundreds of clients and 25 employees including one TABC graduate and the wife of a second TABC graduate. Rami addressed the freshman and sophomore Shacharit minyan at the behest of Rabbi Jachter who presented Rami as a role model for our talmidim, a ben Torah, a family man who brought his family to Israel and a successful entrepreneur. Rami also addressed Rabbi Jachter's Y15 Navi shiur about the importance of developing a vision of who we want to be one year and even five years down the road and then work hard to attain that goal. Rami stressed the tremendous spiritual opportunities at TABC where he was so enriched and urged current talmidim to take full advantage! What a pleasure and honor it was to present such a wonderful role model to our students!
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