Yeshivas Heichal HaTorah is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, New Jersey. The institution owns and operates the Jewish Center of Teaneck, where it is located. Heichal is unaffiliated with Israeli yeshivas under the same name.
Heichal HaTorah was established by Aryeh Stechler, Avi Goldenberg, and Yehuda Jacoby. The group met in the autumn of 2012 to establish a yeshiva high school that would open in the fall of 2013. Their objective was to create an institution that combines a classic yeshiva schedule to sufficiently develop students' Torah studies with a rigorous secular studies department to give them the skillset needed for college and the professional workplace. Heichal HaTorah greeted its first class of 17 students on September 4, 2013. It graduated its first class on June 14, 2017.[1] The school has an enrollment of 150 students.[2] In 2017, the school introduced a Tikvah Humanities curriculum into its general studies courses. The course, in partnership with the Tikvah Fund, an educational foundation in New York, implements a neo-classical historical and literary curriculum.[3] [4]
Heichal HaTorah sponsors its own varsity and junior varsity basketball and softball teams known as the Heichal Hornets. In 2018, the Heichal Hornets won the NCYI JV Basketball League championship.
On May 23, 2022, Heichal JV athlete Sachi Zauderer shot a game-winning 3-pointer in the championships, making it to ESPN's SportsCenter's Top 10. [5]
Heichal HaTorah is one of a number of schools in North Jersey and New York City where Sinai Schools operates. Sinai runs independent programs for its special needs students, who attend school at various locations in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey, and in Queens and the Bronx in New York. Sinai students are given specialized and personalized education, including art, music, speech, and occupational therapies. Housed in various other educational facilities, the Sinai students are able to interact with the host school's own students at lunch, recess and at some after school programs, as well as for the bus rides to and from school.[6]
Vehaer Eineinu is a program spearheaded by Heichal's mashgiach ruchani, Rabbi Reuven Tzvi Shwechter. The program is focused on giving incentives to help studens limit their screen time. The program has 3 tiers, 4 hours, 8 hours, and 12 hours per week of screen time respectively. There are engaging raffles and programs on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.
Heichal is nearby a local 7-11, and allows their students to frequent it. The store owners have renovated their store, mainly due to Heichal's students perpetual business.
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