Graduates of Heichal HaTorah should be "budding Talmud scholars," says Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, headmaster of the all-boys Orthodox Jewish yeshiva high school. That's not all. The boys should also appreciate "how unique this country's values are, and how much America has done for the Jews."
For two years, Heichal HaTorah has piloted the Tikvah Humanities Curriculum, a Great Books honors track for ninth- and 10th-graders studying Western history, literature and philosophy. The Tikvah Fund, the foundation behind the curriculum, believes Heichal is the only Jewish high school in America with a classical-education program.
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