Heschel West begins new year

The Heschel Day School West in Agoura Hills welcomed 262 students to the first day of classes on Tues., Sept. 5.

Sixty-one new students from kindergarten through seventh grade joined the school.

Now in its 13th year, Heschel West will celebrate the entire year with a bar mitzvah theme and a school commitment to doing good deeds and making the world a better place in which to live.