Forty-one seniors at Yeshiva University High School’s Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy were recently inducted into the school’s Tehillah Chapter of Arista, the National Honor Society of Secondary Schools. A dinner was held for the students and their parents and Prof. Lawrence Schiffman, vice provost at Yeshiva University and one of the world’s leading experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls, who gave the annual Shalom Frankel Memorial Lecture as part of the evening.

The Adas Israel gala dinner is set for Tuesday, June 5, at 6:30 p.m., at Adas Israel Ballroom, 565 Broadway, Passaic. Call (973) 773-7272 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Areyvut will hold its first annual Bergen County Breakfast on Sunday, May 20, at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Paramus-based Yeshivat Noam will receive the Communal Leadership award. The school hosts the only Jewish teen philanthropy program at a yeshivah day school in New Jersey, one of 10 such programs in the country.

Anna, Julia, and Noah Greenblatt will share the Young Leadership award. The triplets, seventh graders at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, started Triplets for a Cause, a program that addresses needs of individuals and organizations locally and internationally.

Event proceeds will support Areyvut’s ongoing community programming. Call (201) 244-6702, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or www.areyvut.org.

Shabsi and Julie Polinsky

Teaneck’s Congregation Arzei Darom will honor founding members Shabsi and Julie Polinsky at the shul’s 11th annual dinner, Sunday, May 13.

During his six-year presidency, Shabsi Polinsky led the transition of Arzei Darom from a small start-up minyan to a full-service congregation serving the Teaneck community. Julie Polinsky is an active member of the shul’s sisterhood, has worked on its teas and silent auctions, and chairs the shul’s mishloach manot committee. E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Alexandra Casser began putting on t’fillin daily as a sophomore in Rutgers.

“T’fillin make davening Shacharis [morning service] more immediately relevant, since you are able to see that your actions respond to an explicit command in the text,” says the Demarest native. “There’s great satisfaction in being able to see that you are fulfilling a mitzvah described in the central text of Judaism.”

Now, Casser wants to make it easier for other women who want to try observing the mitzvah of t’fillin.

Englewood resident Dr. David Arbit has spent much of his adult life hearing about the Shoah.

“My father-in-law is a survivor,” says the physician, who practices in Fair Lawn. “At every bar- or bat mitzvah, he would get up and speak about his experiences.”

Now, however, Arbit can add many more firsthand accounts to those he already knows. As the physician designated by the March of the Living program to accompany this year’s honorees — some 16 former U.S. servicemen who were among the first to arrive at Europe’s many concentration camps during World War II — the doctor says he now has both new information and detailed verification of his father-in-law’s stories.

Last Sunday morning, 500 people came to the Jewish Center of Teaneck (JCT) to celebrate the life of Arthur Joseph.

Joseph, who moved to Teaneck in the 1950s and became a bedrock first of the town’s nascent Jewish community and then the Bergen Jewish community that followed, died in January at the age of 85. He was buried in Maryland. Sunday’s event — a presentation and brunch — provided an opportunity for area residents who could not attend his funeral to honor his memory.

Joseph made his fortune as a broker of apples and other fruits. When he retired, he decided he had to go back to work so that he could continue to fund myriad commitments to his community.

“What bear in children’s literature is commonly depicted wearing a brown raincoat and a yellow hat? How many layers is the earth’s atmosphere? What would the volume of a cylinder be if it had a height of 10 and a radius of 6 pi?”

That is just a random sampling of the questions Team TABC faced on the most recent segment of the MSG Varsity’s The Challenge Quiz Show, a network on Cablevision. TABC — Torah Academy of Bergen County — is located in Teaneck.

The TABC team has advanced farther in this year’s competition than ever before, said team coach Manny Landau. Since participants are sworn to secrecy until the show is aired, he cannot divulge the final outcome, he said.