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Mazal Tov
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Mazal tov to
Rabbi Asher & Shira Yablok on the birth of their daughter.
Click
here for a video of her naming at TABC this morning, and
here for photos of the event.
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Year-End Giving
The TABC Annual Dinner is taking place on February 26, 2018. All funds raised this year will go towards the Bruce Ritholtz z"l Scholarship Fund. Click
here to read the announcement letter and details about the dinner and campaign.
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Congratulations
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Congratulations to our Sophomore Intramural Champions!
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Upcoming Events
December 15
December 18-19
Chanukah Vacation
December 21
December 25
Freshman & Sophomore parents are
invited to learn with their sons.
December 26
(For 11th & 12th grade students & their parents)
7:30 - 9:30 PM
December 27
program for parents
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
at Ma'ayanot
December 28
Asara B'Tevet
12:50 Dismissal
January 1
New Year's Day
No School
January 5-6
January 11
Last Day of Sessions
1:25 Dismissal
January 12-17
Midterm Examinations
January 18 -28
Intersession
(See learning opportunities
here.)
January 29
Sessions Resume
February 16-19
President's Day Weekend
No School
February 26
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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
We are excited that this week's oneg will take place in coordination with the Ohr HaTorah community. All students are invited to join Rabbi Finkelstein for a Shabbat Chanukah oneg with special guest Yehuda Green at Congregation Ohr HaTorah 36 Rector Court, Bergenfield
starting at
8:15 PM.
Please see below for more details. All students are encouraged to attend!
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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
Elise & Zvi Ginsberg
Rachelle & Mark Zomick
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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December 15, 2017 27 Kislev 5778
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 The administration, faculty & staff of TABC wish you and your family a very
Happy Chanukah!
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TABC Gets into
the Chanukah Spirit
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Our Chanukah Chagiga was a rocking event which brought the spirit of the day to our yeshiva. Our very own Shim Craimer led this ruach-filled event with songs which got the boys excited as they danced, and those which inspired as they swayed in a united chain around the Beit Knesset. What a wonderful way to kick off Chanukah at TABC! Click
here for more photos, and
here for a video.
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Thank you to TAPA for coordinating a celebratory breakfast for the students this morning. Thank you, also, to all the parents who sponsored.
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The TABC pre-Chanukah Shabbaton was a time of ruach, learning and bonding between students and their rebbeim. TABC is fortunate to be the local boys yeshiva, affording it the opportunity to host shabbatonim and Yom Tov programming in our students' home away from home. The shabbaton began Friday night, as the talmidim davened in TABC's Beit Midrash with Rabbi Raphi Mandelstam as the chazzan for an uplifting Kabbalat Shabbat. Following the seudah and divrei chizuk from Rabbi Dovi
d Einhorn, the talmidim chose from shiurim given by either Rabbi Shaya First, Rabbi Joel Grossman, or Rabbi Raphi Mandlestam. They then all came back together for the traditional rocking TABC tish.
Shabbat morning, the talmidim spread out among the local teen minyanim in Teaneck and Bergenfield, with a hot kiddush at Rinat. The students were hosted for lunch by rebbeim and faculty in their homes. It was a wonderful time for the talmidim to sing, shmooze and share Torah with their teachers and their families. Many of the talmidim braved the snow to return to TABC for Mincha, learning and a seudah shlishit with heartfelt zemirot. Following Maariv, there was one last chance to sing together during Havdalah with Rabbi Tzvi Yaakov Miretzky. May the ruach of the Shabbaton permeate the upcoming Chanukah. Click
here for more photos.
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TABC Students Excel on YU Bekiut Exam
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For the first time TABC is taking part in the Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program (YU's bekiut program). The talmidim in our Tzurba D'Rabannan program are learning Megillah, the messechta of the bekiut program this year. It was a strong start, with ten talmidim scoring in the 90's. Two students, juniors Ned Krasnopolsky and Alex Ostrin, achieved a perfect score on the amud test, and junior Akiva Sturm received a perfect score on the daf test. While the scores are gratifying, we are most proud of the dedication to talmud Torah displayed daily by all the members of Tzurba and we hope they will continue to grow in their learning.
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Engineering 12 Builds
Life-Sized Chanukiah
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 From planning and ordering parts, to measuring and cutting, to assembling and celebrating, students of Mr. Bogart's Engineering 12 class ushered in the holiday of Chanukah with a life size menorah standing at almost eight feet tall. The students plan to further their creation by painting it and adding LED lights which they will code themselves.
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TABC Continues With
Torah Bowl Successes
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Last Thursday, the TABC Torah Bowl Team crossed town for its second meet of the year, held at Heichal HaTorah. The team, under the leadership of Rabbi Ezra Wiener and Shmuel Adler '18, went 3-1, handily defeating Heichal HaTorah and MTA. In its match against JEC, it took an early lead, then lost the lead, then nearly caught up again but ultimately lost 18-12. In the final match of the day, TABC played Heichal HaTorah again and won 28-1. TABC now leads its division with a 7-1 record. |
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Upcoming Jewish Life
on Campus Program
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 Please save the date. On Tuesday, December 26
th
, the College Guidance Department has planned its Jewish Life on Campus Program. The program is primarily for the juniors and their parents. We do expect all juniors to attend this very valuable college guidance program. The program will include presentations from Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus Program, co-sponsored by the OU and Hillel, rabbis and the twenty-three colleges that now have such programs on their campuses. The program will also include a quick overview of Jewish life on college campuses by student representatives from carefully selected colleges that have been popular with our students. The second part of the program will feature Jewish Life on Campus Fair where parents and students will have the opportunity to speak with the rabbis and student representatives of Orthodox programs on college campuses. Dr. Carol Master, who has spearheaded the program, has arranged for a great evening and we look forward to seeing you and your son there. (See flyer below.)
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Mrs. Kopel's Chemistry Class
Studies "Candyum"
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Last week in Mrs. Kopel's Chemistry class, students studied average atomic mass. To help understand the concept, they looked at "candyum," a new element with atomic symbol Mm. They found the percent abundance of each color and then used it to calculate the average atomic mass of the element. It was a tasty way to practice this skill.
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A delegation of 14 juniors and seniors traveled to Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey for a chesed trip last week. First stop was packing and delivering food for the Jewish Relief Agency in Philadelphia. Following lunch, they headed to the Inglis House, a home for wheelchair bound individuals with Multiple Sclerosis or Cerebral Palsy. Shifting from chesed to talmud Torah, the group davened mincha in the famed Philadelphia Yeshiva and heard a shmooze from Rav Shmuel Kaminetzky. As they headed back to New Jersey, the group enjoyed some time on the beach in Deal, despite the frigid weather.
On the second day of the trip, the group fixed generators and unpacked tins at the Bikur Cholim of Lakewood. This was followed by a tour of the Beis Midrash Hagadol of Lakewood and a shiur with Rav Schustal. After a stop visiting with the kids at the Center for Special Children the group visited the West Orange Bikur Cholim where they were surprised with ice cream sundaes, provided by the Bikur Cholim. The trip was a wonderful balance of chesed and learning, a balance that TABC strives to inculcate in all of its talmidim. For more photos, click here.
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Seniors Learn to
Write About Food
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 Mrs. Miller's senior English class, Writing About Food, explored the ways that our emotional connections to food reveal truths about our relationships with our families, friends, and traditions. Inspired by writers Amy Tan, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Ruth Reichl, the senior "foodies" wrote their own memoirs. They explored topics including "The Comforts of Wacky Mac," "Aunt Sally's Sambousek," "That Time My Dad Bribed the Waiter to Serve Me Duck Instead of Chicken," "A Memorable Sukkot Meal," "The Sensory Delights of Hibachi," and "Why I'll Never Eat a Burger Ever Again."
Composing their "food moment" essays stoked students' appetites for memoir (not to mention, great food) and provided useful practice for writing the college application essay.
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Diffusion & Osmosis in 9th Grade Biology
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This week, Mrs. Ruskin's 9th grade biology classes learned about diffusion and osmosis. Next, they did a lab where they simulated a selectively permeable cell membrane to investigate which substances are able to pass into and out of a cell.
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The Homefront
in Mrs. Shavelson's English 9A
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War is everywhere in John Knowles's classic boyhood novel,
A Separate Peace, set in 1942 America. But where is it exactly, 9A wanted to know, if war was only in far off Europe? Through footage of Pearl Harbor, U.S. propaganda films, and even Looney Tunes, students saw that WWII came right to America's doorstep in the form of rationing, air raid drills, and blackouts. "Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel [we]re rare. There [we]re too many jobs and not enough workers. Money [wa]s very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there [wa]sn't very much to buy," writes Knowles. From our unit, the everyday reality of World War II America became clearer to students, and John Knowles's fiction, more real.
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Chanukah is a time to show our appreciation for our esteemed faculty and staff for all that they do to take care of our sons.
We invite you to join our growing list of
sponsors. Deadline to send in your sponsorship is December 19th.
You can sponsor online by clicking here.
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Freshman and Sophomore Parents
are invited to join us
on Monday, December 25th
to learn with your sons
and join them for a Gemara shiur.
9:30am - Welcome & parent-son chavruta time in the Beit Knesset
10:15am - Join your son(s) for a shiur with his Gemara rebbe
11:00am - Parents are invited to light refreshments in the Storm Cafe.
If a parent is not available, grandparents or other adult family members are welcome.
The Teaneck Police have granted us permission, on this date, to park on the south sides of Amsterdam Avenue and Tryon Avenue, between Queen Anne Road and Palisade Avenue. (On Tryon, that means on the school side, on Amsterdam, it's across from the school building.)
We hope you can join us for this unique opportunity to learn with us during the school day.
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