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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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

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.
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Support Heschel

When you give to the Annual Fund, you support all of the ways that we strive to implement our mission in the daily lives of our students. Your gift assists us in providing our students with a stellar education in a school with a progressive, pluralistic and diverse socio-economic community. We rely on our families and friends to help us reach our annual fundraising goals.

Middle School Moments

Oct 3 2023

Grade 7 explored NYC on the annual Staycation! The 2 days featured a Governors Island scavenger hunt, riding the Seaglass Carousel, walking through downtown Manhattan, Central Park boating, going to the top of One World Observatory, and a BBQ sunset dinner back on the Heschel roof, eventually, sleeping out in the Sukkah!

Gallery: Middle School Week of 9.28.23

Sep 28 2023

Middle School students had an action packed week filled with visits to the American Museum of Natural History, science labs, volleyball games, finishing Sefer Yonah, and more!

Grade 6 Sounds the Shofar

Sep 14 2023

It must be Elul! Grade 6 students practiced their Shofar blowing during Tefillah this week.

Grade 8 Moves Up!

Jun 16 2023

Gallery: Focus on Grade 7 Art

Jun 9 2023

Grade 7 students continued to explore the figure in multiple ways including working from observation, wire sculptures, and more.

Oct 3

MS Gr 7 Staycation - NYC and Heschel

all day

Oct 3