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Torah Academy of Bergen County is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey, just minutes from the George Washington Bridge. It offers a comprehensive Judaic Studies Program in addition to college preparatory courses emphasizing English, history, mathematics, the sciences and technology.

Torah Academy, as it is affectionately known, is run by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yosef Adler, and the Principal for General Studies, Mr. Arthur Poleyeff. Rounding out the top brass of the school 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.

Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses offered, primarily to juniors and seniors, 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.

Each year over 90% of the Senior class decides to study at a year or two in Yeshivas in Israel before beginning college.

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Faculty

Extracurricular Activities

The School has a number of prestigious extracurricular activities that generate excitement throughout the region, and in fact internationally. The school's Mock trial team was the 2005 State Champions and received tremendous 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.

The Torah Bowl team won its first ever league championship in the 2004-2005 season. The Science Olympiad team won the tournament the first two times it competed, in the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons. Chess and college-bowl are other exciting, popular activities that arouse fascination among the school body and region.

The school also publishes several publications that are distributed to synagogues and institutions worldwide, but 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 and its science teacher, Dr. Berman, runs a summer science program for boys and girls in its well-equipped chemistry and physics lab. Also, both hockey teams run a little-league hockey team for boys from grades 4-8. Each summer, Rabbi Howard Jachter (currently the interim Rabbi at Congregation Rinat Yisrael) also runs a 1-week program for high school boys in which they learn a book of Tanakh in depth.

Two students from Torah Academy have passed the Microsoft Certification Exam in Microsoft Office Excel after finishing the honors computer course taught by Rabbi Michael Ross.

Athletics

The wrestling team finished their 2005-2006 season with their best performance ever. Six wrestlers placed in the prestigious Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament at Yeshiva University and the team took fourth place out of 11 teams. With a young team and many returning starters the team looks forward to moving up even more this season.

Both the floor hockey varisty and junior varsity team went undefeated in the regular season, but neither team won their respective chamionships. The varsity team defeated Magen David 5-1 but lost to the Ramaz Rams 6-4 in the semifinals. The junior varsity team defeated Ramaz 2-1 in overtime in the first round and defeated the Frisch Cougars 4-1 in the semifinals, but lost 4-0 to the undefeated Davis Renov Stahler Wildcats in the Championships.

The Yeshiva University Red Sarachek basketball tournament plays some of its games in the TABC gym. In the 2004, the tournament awarded TABC for their efforts by allowing them to compete in the tournament. They started out seeded 10th among the 18 teams, but they upset Yeshiva Atlanta in the first round and then shocked Ramaz in double overtime by one point until they lost to the eventual champions the Hyman School, located in a suburb of Kansas City. TABC finished in the fourth seed.

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