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Inside Heschel High

The mock trial team at Abraham Joshua Heschel School in Manhattan is taking nothing for granted in preparing for their first trip to the statewide mock trial championship this month in Albany. The team placed second in the New York City Mock Trial Competition behind Hunter College High School. The top two city teams advance to the state competition in Albany May 21-23.Show less

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds Visits Heschel

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds read to Heschel High Schoolers as part of the Edy Rauch Memorial Artist in Residence Program. The groundbreaking poetry  she read touched on loss, motherhood, feminism, racism, and family; an engaging and spritely Q&A followed the reading. “There is so much energy in this room,” she said. We are so grateful to have hosted her!
 

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