Photographs: 10th and 11th Grade Hesed Day
Tenth and Eleventh grade Hesed Day is today! Our students are volunteering all over Manhattan this afternoon, serving various communities. Students are spending time with homebound seniors, feeding...
View ArticleStudent Summaries From Yom Iyun
12th Grader ResponseBy: Sophia Katz On October 30th, each grade listened as various speakers, from the Heschel community and from outside, shared their teachings related to the assassination of...
View ArticleHigh School Alum Zach Stecker and the Princeton Footnotes Visit Heschel
The community was treated to a special concert by the Princeton Footnotes, Princeton University's all male a cappella group, on Monday Nov. 2 at the end of the day. Zach Stecker, Heschel class of 2013,...
View ArticleHeschel Model UN Attends Brown University's Simulation Conference
Members of Heschel's Model United Nations team, along with English teacher and Model U.N. faculty advisor Shana Goldstein and Spanish teacher Ivania Marinero, attended the annual Brown University...
View ArticleHeschel Hosts College Bowl Tournament
Heschel hosted our annual city-wide college bowl competition on Thursday, November 12th. Students from Flatbush, SAR, MTA, Magen David, Westchester HA, and Ramaz participated in the meet.
View ArticleReflection on Hesed Day
Two weeks ago, I joined a group of fourteen 10th and 11th graders on their Hesed outing to the Broadway Community Soup Kitchen that has served the Upper West Side community near Columbia since 1982...
View ArticleCongratulations to the High School Basketball Teams!
The High School Basketball teams traveled to Los Angeles to compete in the Steve Glouberman Z"L Basketball Tournament. The girls team placed 4th in the tournament and the boys team took home the...
View ArticleHesed Program on Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention
On Thursday, students and faculty welcomed MetCouncil Family Violence and Social Services staff and clients to our school. This semester, the schoolÃs Hesed Semester Cause is domestic violence...
View ArticleHeschel Community Mourns Ezra Schwartz
Two of our students, Ilana Stein and Chloe Weisman, travelled to Sharon, MA on Sunday by bus with students and faculty from several day schools to attend Ezra's funeral. They were inspired by Ezra's...
View ArticleY-Love Visits 10th Grade As Part of New Advisory Program
Last Tuesday, the 10th Grade welcomed Yitz Jordan, aka Y-Love, the first half-black-half-Puerto-Rican-gay-convert-Jewish MC, to share his story as part of our Living Pluralism program. Yitz rapped,...
View ArticleWomen's Minyan Hosts Hesed Bake Sale
The Women's Minyan (11th and 12th grade girls) is particularly proud of our recent work, raising close to $500 in honor of Ezra Schwartz Z"L, who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Israel. This...
View ArticleHeschel Debate Team Takes Home Awards At Yeshiva League Tournament
On Wednesday, December 2nd, the Heschel Debate team participated in a tournament hosted by YUGHS. Thirteen schools participated in the debate, with over 30 two-partner teams. The debate focused on the...
View ArticleSenior Painting Class Visits Chelsea Galleries
Twelfth grade art students made a tour of 5 Chelsea art galleries as part of Dena Schutzer's senior studio art class. The painting exhibitions encompassed gestural abstractions of Louise Fishman,...
View ArticleWinter Fundraiser Photographs
Planned by our student led "Vaadat Hesed," proceeds from this year's event helped the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty efforts in supporting women and men who are victims of domestic violence....
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