The Heschel School

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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 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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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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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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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

K and Grade 7 Buddies Meet Again

K and Grade 7 Buddies Meet Again

Oct 11 2019

Using found materials, Kindergarten and Grade 7 buddies worked together to create decorations for the Heschel sukkah.

Grade 8's Study of the Constitution Culminates in Court

Grade 8's Study of the Constitution Culminates in Court

Nov 7 2019

Grade 8's study of the Constitution culminated in a moot court exercise at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse. Students spent weeks studying Supreme Court cases that define the parameters of the 4th Amendment, protection against unreasonable search and seizure. With briefs and questions they wrote themselves, the students entered the federal courthouse to become lawyers and justices, arguing a case in which public school students argue that their constitutional rights were violated when school administration searched their cell phones and backpacks, and found evidence of criminal behavior.

Grade 7 Computer Science Lab Programs Robots

Grade 7 Computer Science Lab Programs Robots

Nov 1 2019

Grade 7 Computer Science Lab programmed robots to drive on a specific course. The students took turns writing the code, charting data, and analyzing their results.

Grade 8 Students Discover Whimsical Qualities of Sukkot

Grade 8 Students Discover Whimsical Qualities of Sukkot

Oct 18 2019

In Toshba, Grade 8 students decoded Mishnaic and halakhic texts that revealed an assortment of whimsical qualities of Sukkot - a sukkah built on a boat, a sukkah perched on top of a tree, and even a sukkah on a camel! Using the Mishna as an instructional guide, the students worked in pairs to create models of these Sukkahs using cardboard, aluminum foil, and metallic paper. When presenting their designs, the students also taught their assigned mishnayot to one another and assessed the halakhic status of each sukkah model.

Grade 8 Uses Whiteboard Technique to Better Understand Physical and Chemical Reactions

Grade 8 Uses Whiteboard Technique to Better Understand Physical and Chemical Reactions

Oct 17 2019

Grade 8 students "whiteboarded" their explanations of physical and chemical reactions in closed and open systems. Whiteboarding allows the students to quickly draw, modify, and erase content on a dry erase board to allow for ideas to organically develop.

Nov 26

Parent Coffee w/Emily re. Digital Citizenship

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

30WEA-2-MS Dining Hall (100)

Dec 11

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all day

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