The Heschel School

Opening Minds, Bridging Differences, Living Jewish Values.

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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 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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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' 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 1,200 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.
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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.

Middle School Moments

Grade 8 Science Class Conducts Spaghetti Bridge Lab

Grade 8 Science Class Conducts Spaghetti Bridge Lab

Sep 13 2019

Grade 8 students conducted a lab to find the relationship between the number of spaghetti strands making a bridge and the number of marbles that the bridge can support. By collecting data the students were able predict the number of masses that could be supported by a bridge made of strands of pasta.

Grade 8 Students Celebrate Completion of Middle School at Moving Up Ceremony

Grade 8 Students Celebrate Completion of Middle School at Moving Up Ceremony

Jun 14 2019

Grade 8's Moving Up Ceremony commemorated the students' completion of Middle School. The program included the students' reflections from the year, musical performances, and heartfelt remarks from administrators.

Grade 8 Travels to Washington D.C.

Grade 8 Travels to Washington D.C.

Jun 6 2019

Grade 8 traveled to Washington, D.C. for a three-day overnight trip that tied into their humanities curriculum.

Grade 7 Ventures Up To Hudson Highlands and Albany

May 31 2019

Grades 6 and 7 Music Students Perform in a Concert

Grades 6 and 7 Music Students Perform in a Concert

May 24 2019

Middle School Music students performed for their peers and parents as they showed off what they have been working on over the course of the year.

Sep 19

MS Grade 7 Staycation

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Sep 20

MS Grade 7 Staycation

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