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.
OUR PROGRAM
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.
The school’s approach to education is governed by profound respect for students. It nurtures their curiosity, cultivates their imagination, encourages creative expression, values their initiative, and engenders critical thinking skills. The school is committed to the development of the whole child and supports each student’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual growth
THE HESCHEL EXPERIENCE
The Heschel School is a mission-driven, pluralistic community that brings together families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds, practices, and beliefs. Heschel students develop ideas and values that shape and inspire their lives. Our approach to education nurtures their curiosity, cultivates their imagination, encourages creative expression, values their initiative, and instills critical thinking skills. Heschel supports each student’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual growth.
WELCOME TO THE 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.
Our progressive academic platform, which emphasizes scholastic excellence, integrates curriculum across disciplines and features side-by-side teaching from Judaic and General Studies teachers in every classroom. Our faculty work together to present a unique curriculum that bridges educational concepts with tenets of the Jewish faith. LEARN MORE→
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 extraordinary 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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