Heichal HaTorah
Yeshiva Heichal HaTorah is an Jewish Orthodox 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 yeshivos under the same name.
Heichal HaTorah has 105 students enrolled for the 2017–18 school year.
History of Heichal
Heichal was established by Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, Avi Goldenberg (an attorney), and Yehuda Jacoby (a financial analyst), who got together in the autumn of 2012 to begin putting together a yeshiva high school that would begin classes the following fall. Their idea was to create an institution that combined a classic yeshiva schedule with a rigorous secular studies department. The feeling at the time was that most yeshiva high schools in the area, and nationally as well, were too polarized, that is to say, either secular studies was not taken seriously enough to give students the skill sets needed for college and the modern workplace; or they gave secular studies such weight that it infringed on the ability of students to develop their Torah studies sufficiently.
Heichal aimed to create a true dual-curriculum, but not a system of equals.
Heichal greeted its first class of 17 students on September 4, 2013. It graduated its first class on June 14, 2017.
Leadership of Heichal
Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, Rosh Yeshiva and Dean
Rabbi Ronie Malavsky, Assistant Dean and Principal of General Studies
Student Council
In June 2017 Akiva Epstein, a junior, was elected the yeshiva's first Student Council President for the upcoming year. Moshe Fogelman was elected Vice President, Ovadia Yaish was elected Secretary, and Yisrael Cohen was elected Treasurer.