Abraham Joshua Heschel School
 United States  / New York  |  Children/Education

The Heschel School sees as essential the creating of a community with families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds, practices, and beliefs. The school is devoted to equal participation-boys and girls, men and women-in all aspects of the school's religious, intellectual, and communal life.

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School is an independent school named in memory of one of the great Jewish leaders, teachers, and activists of the 20th century. Its creation was spearheaded by founder Peter Geffen in 1981. Together with educators and lay people from a broad spectrum of the Jewish community, they worked to project a vision for a pluralistic Jewish school. The school opened its doors to twenty-eight students with the commitment to offer a first-rate education in a diverse, pluralistic, Jewish environment. Today, with more than 800 students in nursery through grade twelve, and spanning three buildings, The Heschel School continues to be nationally renowned for the values and ethics upon which it was established.

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