Torah Academy of Bergen County
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| Torah Academy of Bergen County |
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| Established | 1982 |
| Type | Private High School, Yeshiva |
| Affiliation | Modern Orthodox Judaism |
| Students | 218 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Teaneck, NJ, United States |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Website | www.tabc.org |
Torah Academy of Bergen County is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey. In the morning it has a Jewish studies and in the afternoon it has college preparatory courses emphasizing English, history, mathematics, the sciences and technology.
Torah Academy, as it is commonly known, is run by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yosef Adler, and the Principal for (of) General Studies, Mr. Arthur Poleyeff. Also in the administration are Rabbi Ezra Wiener, the Mashgiach Ruchani (Religious Life Guidance Counselor) and Mr. Bobby Kaplan, the head of the Business and Athletics Departments.
The school was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in 2006. Some of the undergraduate colleges that TABC students have been accepted to include Boston College, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, New York University, Princeton University, Queens College, Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania and Yeshiva University. Many students who attended YU were accepted to the above mentioned colleges or could have been accepted but chose only to apply to YU.
The Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses offered are: AP Chemistry, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Computers A and AB, AP United States History, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Jewish History, AP Psychology, AP Biology, and AP Statistics. Most of these are only primarily offered to juniors and seniors.
Each year over 90% of the Senior class decides to study for a year or two in Yeshiva in Israel before beginning college.
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[edit] Faculty
- Rabbi Yosef Adler (Judaic Studies, Rosh Yeshiva)
- Dr. Joel Berman (Science, chair)
- Ms. Yonina Bersson (Science)
- Rabbi Darren Blackstein (Judaic Studies)
- Ms. Anat Brayer (Hebrew, Chair)
- Ms. Nancy Edelman (English, Art Appreciation)
- Rabbi Steven Finkelstein (Guidance Director)
- Rabbi Ezra Frazer (Judaic Studies; Guidance)
- Rabbi Scott Friedman (Judaic Studies, Guidance)
- Mr. Moshe Glasser (English)
- Rabbi Joel Grossman (Judaic Studies)
- Ms. Cilla Hirschkorn (Hebrew)
- Ms. Donna Hoenig (Learning Specialist, Admissions)
- Rabbi Howard Jachter (Judaic Studies)
- Rabbi Josh Kahn (Student Activities, Judaic Studies)
- Mr. Bobby Kaplan (Athletics)
- Dr. Garry Katz (History, College Guidance)
- Mr. David Levine (History)
- Mr. Glen Marianko (IT Director, Computer Science)
- Dr. Carol Master (English, chair)
- Ms. Linda Moed Cohen (Health)
- Ms. Leah Moskovits (Library)
- Ms. Ceil Olivestone (Administrator)
- Mr. Arthur Poleyeff (Principal for General Studies; Chair, Math)
- Rabbi Avi Pollak (Student Activities, Judaic Studies)
- Ms. Cary Reichardt (History, chair)
- Mr. Morton Rosner (Guidance, Music)
- Rabbi Michael Ross (Computer Science)
- Ms. Jill Shapiro (English, History)
- Ms. Dassi Silverman (Math)
- Ms. Rochie Sommer (Math)
- Ms. Chana Stiefel (English)
- Rabbi Michael Taubes (Judaic Studies)
- Rabbi Ezra Wiener (Judaic Studies)
- Coach Mo Fuchs
[edit] Extracurricular Activities
The school has a number of extracurricular activities, some that do well even on the international level. The school's Mock trial team was the 2005 State Champions and received a lot of press coverage both in the Tri-State Region as well as overseas for its efforts to gain accommodations to participate in the National High School Mock Trial Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina without being required to compete during the Jewish Sabbath.[1]
The Torah Bowl team won its first league championship in the 2004-2005 school year. The Science Olympiad team won the tournament the first two times it competed, in the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 school years. Chess and college-bowl are other popular activities.
The school also publishes several publications that are distributed to synagogues and institutions mostly within the New York / New Jersey / Connecticut Tri-State Region. These include Kol Torah, the school's weekly Torah publication, and Israel Report, a weekly collection of news items relating to Israel.
The school, its chemistry and physics teacher, Dr. Berman, and its computer science teacher, Mr. Marianko, run a summer science program for boys and girls in its computer and chemistry/physics labs. Also, both floor hockey teams run a little-league floor hockey league for boys from grades 4-8. Each summer, Rabbi Howard Jachter also runs a 1-week program for high school boys in which they learn a book of Tanakh in depth.
Recently the Varsirty Hockey team went undeafeted (17-0) beating the yeshiva league hockey powerhouse DRS in the championship 3-1.
[edit] Athletics
In the 2006-2007 season, the wrestling team had its largest group of wrestlers ever. 29 wrestlers from the school participated in the prestigious Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament XII. The team placed 3rd, its best ever. Two wrestlers placed 1st in their weight classes, 3 wrestlers placed 2nd, 2 placed 4th, and several placed 5th.
Both the floor hockey varsity and junior varsity team went undefeated in the 2005-06 regular season, but neither team won their respective championships. The varsity team defeated Magen David, but lost to the Ramaz in the semifinals. The junior varsity team defeated Ramaz in the first round and defeated the Frisch in the semifinals, but lost to the undefeated Davis Renov Stahler in the Championships.
The Yeshiva University Red Sarachek basketball tournament plays some of its games in the TABC gym, for which they got an award in 2004. The team was seeded tenth among the 18 teams, but they upset Yeshiva Atlanta in the first round and then beat Ramaz, before losing to the eventual champions the Hyman School, located in a suburb of Kansas City. TABC finished in the fourth seed.
