Torah Academy of Bergen County


Torah Academy of Bergen County is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey. It utilizes a split-schedule day offering both Jewish studies and college preparatory courses. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 2005.
TABC, as it is commonly known, is run by the Head of School, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, the Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Yosef Adler, and the Principal, Arthur J. Poleyeff. Rabbi Ezra Wiener is the Judaic Studies Principal, Rabbi Michael Hoenig is the Mashgiach Ruchani, and the S'gan Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Daniel Fridman.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 313 students and 34.1 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1. The school's student body was 99.9% White.

Academic programs

Various Advanced Placement courses are offered primarily to juniors and seniors, such as AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP English Language and Composition, [AP English Literature and Composition, Physics, Psychology, Statistics, and United States History.
The building hosts a second school called the SINAI Special Needs Institute. The program serves children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability and a wide variety of behavioral characteristics, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula. The students have separate administrators and teachers from TABC, though they share some classrooms.

Extracurricular activities

TABC has a number of extracurricular activities, some that do well even on the international level. The school's Mock trial team was the 2005 New Jersey 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.
The school has an International Bible Contest team which is coached by Rabbi Neil Winkler. In 2017, junior Shlomi Helfgot placed 4th in the world in the international competition which takes place in Jerusalem on Yom HaAtzma'ut.
The school also has a notable Science Olympiad Team, having won the Yeshiva League for the past 6 years, as well as College Bowl, with Junior Varisty having been undefeated since 2014.

Athletics

TABC has various sport teams, including baseball, softball, basketball, hockey, wrestling and others.
In an effort to build inter-community relationships in Teaneck, former Torah Academy athletic director Bobby Kaplan and then assistant principal Rabbi Tzvi Grumet, arranged for the TABC Storm to play a pair of exhibition basketball games in 2000 against the Knights of the Al-Ghazaly High School, a Muslim high school in the township.
The varsity hockey team has won the MYHSAL championship five times. The JV team has won the MYHSAL championship a record eight times. TABC is known as a hockey powerhouse and both teams have made the championship consistently.
TABC's wrestling team had placed 3rd in the Wittenberg Championships from 2007 to 2010. In 2009, TABC had six finalists and two champions. In 2010, TABC had three champions - Navid Ahdoot, Evan Friedlander and Dovid Greenfield - as well as several second and third place wrestlers. In 2011 TABC placed second overall with three first-place winners including Shimmy Auman, Evan Friedlander, Dovid Greenfield. In 2013, TABC won Wittenberg with three champions, and eleven total placers. TABC wrestlers Efraim Ellman, Dovid Greenfield, Navid Ahdoot, Ramin Ahdoot and Lior Shachar have been inducted into the Wittenberg Hall of Fame. TABC Wrestling has also continued to place well at Wittenberg even fielding smaller teams. They have wrestled at the Brick Memorial Tournament, The Randolph Wrestling Tournament, The North Bergen Wrestling Tournament, and more. 2016-2017 saw another individual first place finish from Ben Antosofsky 19', as well as more high placements. In 2017-2018 Dovid Meiseles took home 1st, with a myriad of 2nd - 5th place finishes backing him up.
The TABC track team was undefeated in 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. The team is coached by alumnus Shmuel Knoller. Notably, Zachary Greenberg came in 3rd place in his age group in the Jerusalem Marathon in 2016.
The school also has both a varsity and junior varsity basketball team coached by former St. John's assistant Coach Oswald Cross.
The Yeshiva University Red Sarachek basketball tournament plays some of its games in the TABC gym, for which they received an award in 2004. TABC also participated in Sarachek in 2012, entering the tournament as the 13th seed and finishing ranked #12 overall. In 2016, TABC again participated in the tournament, entering as the #9 seed. In the first round, TABC defeated the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy Warriors on a last second shot, but were defeated in the second round by eventual-champion DRS Wildcats 34-31.