The Heschel School

Opening Minds, Bridging Differences, Living Jewish Values.

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About
About Heschel

When the Abraham Joshua Heschel School was founded in 1983, a new model of Jewish day school was created. Named after one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the twentieth century, The Heschel School opened with a commitment to creating a pluralistic Jewish community dedicated to the values that characterized Rabbi Heschel’s life: intellectual exploration, respect, integrity, love of the Jewish people and tradition, and a commitment to social justice.

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The Heschel Experience
The Heschel Experience

The Heschel experience embraces both what it means to be a pluralistic community and the values that characterized Rabbi Heschel’s life: intellectual exploration, respect, integrity, love of the Jewish people and tradition, and a commitment to social justice. Learn more.
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Academics
Academics at Heschel
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School fosters critical thinking and a love of learning in an environment of intellectual challenge and academic excellence. By weaving together Jewish and general studies we nurture each student’s intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual growth.
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Admissions
Admissions
Welcome to The Abraham Joshua Heschel School. We are a unique pluralistic Jewish day school, emphasizing academic excellence as well as awareness of social and communal responsibility through an offering of a superb integrated curriculum of general and Judaic studies.

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Parents
Parents' Association
The PA is comprised of all parents in the school, including Early Childhood, Lower School, Middle School, and High School. We foster communication between the parent body and the administration, faculty, and staff. Throughout the year, we engage families by creating and producing community-building and educational programs.
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Alumni
Alumni

Heschel's alumni, now over 1,400 strong, span the continent and the world. We are proud of their accomplishments and celebrate their successes as artists, educators, scholars, journalists, business and financial leaders, and rabbis, with the foundation of a Heschel education.
Support Heschel
Support Heschel
There is no other school in New York City quite like Heschel. Across our curriculum, we foster academic excellence, as well as a love of learning and exploration and an emphasis on critical thinking. Your partnership is invaluable and we appreciate all the ways that you work with us to strengthen our school and our community.

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Early Childhood and Lower School Library

Stephanie Entin, Librarian
Library Location: 30 West End Avenue, 5th Floor

Online Catalog

Recommended Reading Lists
Resource List

Recommended Reading Lists

Resource List

KIDS INFOBITS
Simple, quick access to curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.

NYPL (New York Public Library) DATABASES

Especially for Children
Connect from home with an NYPL library card free! Recommended database via NYPL- World Book. For more resources, visit the NYPL (New York Public Library) website for loads of FREE databases you can access from home with an NYPL card.

ELIBRARY ELEMENTARY

2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus~over 7 million~maps, photographs, infographics, educator-approved websites

BRITANICA SCHOOL
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

BRITANICA ImageQuest
Extensive database for image searching

BRAINPOP*
Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help

BRAINPOP HEBREW*

PATHFINDER