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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Admissions
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
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.
Support Heschel
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.

Parents' Association Events 2019-2020

DATE

TIME

EVENT

9/5

8:15am – 12:00pm

PA EC Drop In Parent Coffee

10/7

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

10/16

6:30 – 9:00pm

PA HS Grades 9-12 Parent Sukkah Party

10/30

8:30 – 9:30am

PA Open PA Meeting

11/18

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

11/19

7:00 – 8:30pm

PA Parents' Institute - Natalie Silverstein

11/22

7:15 – 9:45am

PA Hesedpalooza Book Fair Preview

11/24

11:00am – 2:00pm

HesedPalooza

12/4

7:00 – 10:00pm

PA Market Night

12/18

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

1/23

7:00 – 10:00pm

PA Challah Baking Class

2/11

8:30 – 9:30am

PA Open PA Meeting

2/26

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

2/27

7:00 – 10:00pm

PA Hamentaschen Baking Class

3/8

11:00am – 2:00pm

Purim Pandemonium

3/13

8:15 – 9:30am

PA Parents' Institute - Lisa Darmour

4/1

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

5/5

7 :00– 9:00pm

PA Parents' Institute - Yair Rosenberg

5/13

8:15 – 9:15am

Parents' Institute - Learning with Ariela

5/20

7 :00– 9:00pm

PA HeschelNotes Adult Choir Concert