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

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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When you give to the Annual Fund, our number one fundraising priority, you support all of the ways in which we strive to achieve Heschel’s mission, including supporting our exceptional faculty and staff and our talented student body. Your gift enables us to provide our students with a unique and exceptional education and to nurture our distinct and special pluralistic and socio-economically diverse community.

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Charlotte Neufeld

Charlotte Neufeld

Charlotte (Sari) Ickovits/Itskovitch (later Charlotte Neufeld) was born on September 26, 1919, in Dunkovica, Czechoslovakia. She grew up in Beregsasz/Berehovo where she was an excellent student who spoke multiple languages and was a gifted violin player. Charlotte and her family were eventually deported to Auschwitz where she was separated from the rest of her family, except her sister Irene. Charlotte and Irene were sent to Sommerda where Charlotte was chosen to be a supervisor. She ensured that the frailest and sickest women would have the easiest jobs to keep them from being killed by the Nazis. In the spring of 1945, Charlotte and Irene were taken on a death march for ten days with very little food or water. It was on this march that Charlotte’s best friend Magda was killed by machine-gun fire from strafing American planes. After being liberated by the Americans, Charlotte married Ernest whom she had known before the war. They lived in Budapest where she went for a year to medical school. They then moved to Prague, Haifa and eventually to the United States. Charlotte is the mother of Amos Neufeld and grandmother of Heschel alums Ben and Maddie Neufeld.

You can see artifacts that Charlotte donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum here, and learn more about her story by clicking on the tab entitled "About this Document."