March 17 was a great day for Shakespeare and a great day for Torah Academy of Bergen County. Competing in Envision Shakespeare 2016 against six other yeshiva high schools by performing Act One, Scene Three, from Macbeth, the TABC students came home triumphant, carrying the “best actor” trophy.

The students began the day learning about the timelessness of Shakespeare through highly interactive workshops, and then went on to win the first round of competition against Frisch in the morning. The afternoon brought more workshops and then victory; TABC competed against the two other winning schools of the morning, SAR and Westchester Hebrew High, to be awarded the best actor award for the trio of witches. All of the participants—Benjy Kleiner, Ike Bazian, Shai Gutfreund, Binyamin Novetsky, Eli Dickman, Yaakov Kagel, Yehoshua Kanarek and Netanel Arussy—told Dr. Master, their faculty advisor, “I’m in for next year.” Too bad some participants are seniors and might find it hard to return from Israel for the day.