After the Oct. 7 attack on Southern Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) launched a full scale attack on Gaza. Since then, the IDF’s efforts have expanded to attacks on...
Continuing their efforts to increase student timeliness, the Heschel administration has implemented a new lateness policy for the current school year.
According to the policy, “Each late arrival...
Starting this fall, students preparing for standardized tests will now have the option to take the Enhanced ACT. The new version was created to give test-takers more control and less stress. The test...
Heschel’s Student Government has been fast at work planning annual activities as well as new initiatives.
On Monday, March 24, all four councils of Student Government gathered together to discuss...
After close elections in both the Programming and Hesed and Tzedek vice-presidential races, the administration decided to add two additional vice presidential positions so that small, insignificant margins...
Over the past two years, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) have sparked questions about whether maintaining a zero-tolerance policy for AI use in school is still realistic. The Programming...
On Tuesday, April 29, Heschel’s College Bowl team triumphed in the varsity championship. College Bowl is a trivia competition between Jewish day schools around the Tristate area. The team made it to...
On Wednesday, March 19, Rabbi Ezra Frazer, the faculty leader of the Sephardic minyan, chauffeured Heschel’s first Sephardic Torah to campus.
The high school welcomed the Torah’s arrival with...
On Wednesday, March 26, 10th graders saw The Return of Benjamin Lay, a one-man show about a radical Quaker abolitionist from the 18th century who gradually became disenchanted with the Quaker elite because...
On April 7, Heschel’s Shakespeare club competed at the Envision Shakespeare festival for the first time. In the past, students have gone to the event as observers, but this year they participated.
For...
On March 10, the Heschel Math Team traveled to SAR High School to compete in their first in-person competition. While the team's weekly online contests are a great experience, team captains, seniors Abe...
As the final bell rings on Monday afternoons, students face a difficult choice: go to their club, or go home.
A discussion has developed among the student body about whether clubs should be moved...
