Heichal HaTorah

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Yeshiva 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.

The school had 150 students enrolled for the 2019-20 school year

History[]

Heichal HaTorah was established by Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, Avi Goldenberg (an attorney), and Yehuda Jacoby (a financial analyst). The group met in the autumn of 2012 to establish a yeshiva high school that would open in the fall of 2013. Their idea was to create an institution that combined a classic yeshiva schedule to develop their Torah studies sufficiently with a rigorous secular studies department to give students the skillsets needed for college and workplace.

Heichal HaTorah greeted its first class of 17 students on September 4, 2013. It graduated its first class on June 14, 2017.^[1]

In 2017, Heichal introduced a Tikvah Humanities curriculum into its General studies courses. The course, in parternership with the , an educational foundation in New York, implements a neo-classical historical and literary curriculum.^[2] In 2019, Heichal's Tikvah curriculum was the subject of a Wall Street Journal opinion article entitled "Jerusalem meets Athens in New Jersey".^[3]

Athletic program[]

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.^[4]

Leadership[]

• Aryeh Stechler, Rosh yeshiva
• Maccabee Avishur, Dean
• Pesach Skulnick, Senior Ram
• Daniel Schwechter, Mashgiach ruchani
• Avi Epstein, Dean of Student Life and Director of Admissions
• Ari Klein, Director of Guidance

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• YouTube channel

Coordinates: 40°53′08″N 74°00′32″W / 40.8855°N 74.0090°W / 40.8855; -74.0090