The Frisch School, also known as Yeshivat Frisch , is a coeducational, Modern Orthodox, yeshiva high school located in Paramus, New Jersey. It was founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier, Alfred Frisch and Rabbi Isaac Swift. The school primarily serves the Jewish communities of northern New Jersey and southern New York.
The school is named for founder Alfred Frisch, who owned the land on which the original campus was situated prior to the school's inception in 1972. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1992. Its accreditation expires in 2029.Frisch School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed July 17, 2023. Over the last ten years the student population has grown from 580 to nearly 1000 students.
Frisch School is located at the Henry & Esther Swieca Family Campus, where it moved in 2007. The campus has 41 classrooms, a learning center, six science laboratories, a gymnasium, a library, music and art studios, a Beit Midrash, a "makerspace" (fabrication lab), and a publications room. Outdoors, the campus has a softball field, tennis courts, a basketball-hockey, a soccer field encircled by a running track as well as large turfed area with chair for students to lounge and hang-out.Our New Campus , accessed October 12, 2006 The campus is named in honor of Henry Swieca, who donated the campus.
History Founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier, Alfred Frisch and Rabbi Isaac Swift, the school had been located at E. 243 Frisch Court in Paramus, on a plot of land.Merrill, Laurie C. "Rabbi Swift, 80, Jewish leader", The Record, May 28, 1991. Accessed March 2, 2026, via Newspapers.com. "Rabbi Swift founded the Moriah School of Englewood and the Frisch Yeshiva school in Paramus, which drew Orthodox families from all over."
For the 2007–08 school year, Frisch moved to 120 West Century Road in Paramus. Frisch purchased this site, of land and an office building, and renovated what had been an office building, constructing an addition. The campus is named in honor of Henry Swieca, who donated the campus. The former Frisch building was sold in 2015 to the school Ben Porat Yosef.
Academics Frisch offers a dual curriculum of Judaic and secular studies. Incoming students choose between eleven specialty tracks: Art; Beit Midrash; Culinary Arts and Food Science; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Medical Sciences; Music; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Sports Management Learning center and Business Analytics; World Languages; and Writing. Each track provides specialized academic/vocational training.Listed on the "Academics" drop-down menu of [www.frisch.org]
The school was re-accredited by the Middle States Association Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools in 2020 and is now accredited through January 2029.Staff. "Frisch Receives Middle States Re-Accreditation", The Jewish Link, December 23, 2020. Accessed November 20, 2023. "Yeshivat Frisch has been recommended for re-accreditation by the Middle States Association Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools for another seven-year term, in a glowing report commending the school’s student-centered educational approach, values-infused environment, extraordinary warmth and exceptional leadership."Frisch School, Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed November 20, 2023. "School Accreditation Exp Date: 1/1/2029"
Student population Most of the students are from the Jewish communities of northern New Jersey and New York, with some commuting from Central New Jersey.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 998 students and 97.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1.School data for The Frisch School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 1, 2025.
Co-curricular programs and activities The school says it has over 100 student clubs, in areas including the arts, languages, sciences, leadership and other interests.
Sports There are 25 athletic teams and seven athletic clubs in total. More than 70 percent of students participate on one or more of the sports teams and clubs. There are four basketball teams, one baseball team, two boys floor hockey teams, one girls floor hockey team, and one boys wrestling team, which consecutively won five Wittenberg wrestling titles. There are three volleyball teams – the girls volleyball teams have won the most championship games of any yeshiva volleyball team - three soccer teams, two swimming teams, three softball teams, one bowling team, and two track teams, among others. Frisch also has the first-ever yeshiva ice hockey team, which, in its first year of existence, qualified for the NJ state tournament.Yudelson, Larry. "The frozen chosen", Jewish Standard, March 24, 2016. Accessed February 9, 2026. Frisch competes in ice hockey under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.Frisch School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. In 2016, half of Frisch's Yeshiva League sports teams qualified for the championships, and six teams won the championships.
The baseball team won three consecutive Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League titles (2014, 2015, 2016), and won the Columbus Baseball Invitational yeshiva high school tournament, dubbed the "Jewish World Series", in each of 2016 and 2017.Abramovitz, Mark. "Frisch Cougars Top TABC Storm in Columbus Invitational Tournament", Jewish Link, May 26, 2016. Accessed October 1, 2020.Abramowitz, Mark. "Frisch Cougars Are Columbus Champions", Jewish Link, May 25, 2017. Accessed October 1, 2020.
In 2015, Frisch won the Red Sarachek Tournament hosted by Yeshiva University for the first time. After losing in the championship game in 2013 and 2014, they defeated the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway by a score of 75–73 in triple-overtime to claim the title.Staff. "Frisch Wins Sarachek in Triple OT", Jewish Link of New Jersey, March 26, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2016. "It took three grueling, extra periods for the 2014–15 Frisch Varsity Cougars (the 3-seed coming into the tournament having been reseeded from the top spot after losing a flukey heartbreaker in the Yeshiva League semifinals) to finally dispatch the top nationally ranked HAFTR Hawks by final score of 75-73.... HAFTR's last-gasp fling fell short and the Red Sea of Frisch fans parted onto the Court to celebrate Frisch's first Sarachek championship." In 2017, Frisch came back and won the Sarachek Tournament, defeating the Shalhevet Firehawks (of Los Angeles) by a score of 49–47 in the tournament final.Torok, Ryan. "Wild finish thrills Milken Wildcats' faithful", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 7, 2017. Accessed October 8, 2017. "Meanwhile, Shalhevet, which also qualified to compete in the CIF state playoffs, elected instead to travel to New York to compete in the March 2–6 Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament at Yeshiva University in New York. The Firehawks lost, 49-47, in the championship game to the Frisch School Cougars of Paramus, N. J."
In 2016, Frisch began hosting the Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament, after Yeshiva University announced that it would no longer host the annual event.Nussbaum, Jake. "Frisch to Host Wittenberg Tournament", Jewish Link of New Jersey, February 11, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2017.
The ice hockey team won the McMullen Cup and Monsignor Kelly Cup in 2018.NJSIAA Ice Hockey State Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020. The team won the McMullen Cup in 2021 after defeating Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School by a score of 2–1 in the tournament final.Patti, Ryan. "Boys ice hockey: Frisch edges Scotch Plains-Fanwood 2-1 in McMullen Cup final", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 5, 2021. Accessed March 6, 2021. "Ezra Csillag and Max Petak each netted a goal in the first period for second-seeded Frisch in its 2-1 victory over top-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood in the McMullen Cup final at Warinanco Ice Skating Center in Roselle."
Chesed A Chesed Society coordinates community projects throughout the year.Community Service, Frisch School. Accessed October 8, 2017. Frisch students run a winter camp for children with special needs who have off from public school during the winter break week.Staff. "Friendship Circle of Bergen County Offers December Mini-Camp for Students With Special Needs", Jewish Link of New Jersey, December 15, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2017.
Notable alumni
Eitan Bernath (born 2002, class of 2020), social media personality, chef, and Principal Culinary Contributor on The Drew Barrymore Show Erica Brown, author, Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and LeadershipLeichman, Abigail Klein. "Learning to be leaders", Jewish Standard. May 30, 2019. Accessed March 10, 2026. "From a keynote session led by George Washington University associate professor Erica Brown — who attended the Frisch School in Paramus and has written books including “Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Every Day Leadership” (Simon and Schuster, December 2015) — Ms. Coates took away a new determination 'to make sure I nurture myself and don’t just run, run, run.'" Jeremy Dauber, class of 1990, Rhodes Scholar and Columbia University Professor of Yiddish Literature * Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1975/76), former federal prosecutor and former candidate for New York County District Attorney Alisa Flatow (1974–1995), victim of the Egged bus 36 bombingSiemaszko, Corky. "Eerie Links Between 2 N.J. Women", New York Daily News, February 26, 1996. Accessed October 8, 2017. "The New Jersey women killed yesterday in a bus bombing in Jerusalem followed in the tragic footsteps of a former classmate Alisa Flatow. Sara Duker was one year ahead of Flatow at the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, N.J." Daniel Fridman, S'gan Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Academy of Bergen County and Rabbi of the Jewish Center of TeaneckKratz, Elizabeth. "Jewish Center of Teaneck Welcomes Rabbi Daniel Fridman", Jewish Link of New Jersey, September 8, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2017. "Rabbi Fridman was raised in Teaneck and educated at Yavneh Academy, the Frisch School, Yeshivat Har Etzion and Columbia University." Jeremy Frommer, financier and entrepreneurMoss, Linda. "Pieces of Penthouse founder's erotic collection in Englewood up for bid", The Record, November 9, 2013, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2017. "As a product of the 1980s, Frommer, who attended the Frisch School in Paramus, was well acquainted with Penthouse. As a teenager, he would ride his bike to the local convenience store and try to coax older youths to buy him copies of the magazine." Ryan Karben (born 1974), former New York State Assemblyman Sharon Kleinbaum (born 1959), Senior Rabbi of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat TorahRabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Senior Rabbi , Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. Accessed September 2, 2011. "She is a graduate of the Frisch Yeshiva High School and Barnard College and was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College."