PASS IT ON: 
OPEN HOUSE FOR INTERESTED FAMILIES

Sunday MAY 4 -10:15 AM
Folkshul’s Spring Open House is an opportunity for interested families to visit our school. If you know of any families who’d be a good fit, please pass their contact info on to Margie. They’ll be sent an invitation via e-mail and snail mail.

The Member-Get-A-Member program rewards you with $50 credit on your renewal fees when you refer a family!

  Upcoming Kehilla Events   Kehilla Calendar 

SUNDAY, 4/13   Kehilla Seder 3:30 PM (at Springside School)

Full 4-course meal, new secular Haggadah, singing, group participation, chance to meet friends and family. People of all ages invited. Advanced registration required

Adults & children 11 years and older $20; Children 4-10 years $12; Children 3 and under free. RSVP and payment by April 1, 2008.

Click Here to Download SEDER Registration Form

 Volunteers still needed to work in two-hour shifts ( 1:30-6:00 PM ) at the Kehilla Seder on Sunday March 13, 2008 at Springside. Please respond to margiesinger@verizon.net if you and/or your teen (we can provide a letter documenting community service hours) would be willing to volunteer. Please consider supporting the Kehilla folks who have been instrumental in our school’s history for generations!

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South Jersey Secular Jews Seder – Sunday, April 13, home of Naomi Scher, RSVP  856.795.9260

WORKMEN’S CIRCLE CHORUS presents:
LIBE! Yiddish Songs and Klezmer Tunes 
Celebrating Love and Life 
Sunday April 6, 2008 2:00 PM at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Montgomery Auditorium,1901 Vine Street ,Philadelphia, PA 19103, free and open to the public featuring the Philadelphia Workmen's Circle Chorus under the direction of Cantor Naomi Hirsch and The Fabulous Shpilkes: Susan Watts, trumpet, with her mother, drummer Elaine Hoffman Watts. For more information call 215 686-5316.

FOLKSHULERS AT WORK & PLAY

Two of a Kind performance:
April 11 (Friday), 7:00 pm
Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival 2008 
(Children's Concert featuring songs about reading & books)
Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Ln., Philadelphia, PA 
(215) 844-1870 [Admission: free]

www.twoofakind.com

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Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is offering needs-based scholarships for families seeking to send their children to non-profit, Jewish-identity Camps. Application deadline is 3/24/08 for Overnight Camp and 4/30/08 for Day Camp. For more information or application, contact Margie Margie - Jewish Camp or Deirdre Mulligan at Federation (215) 832-0509.

MORE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

The Overnight Camp Incentive Program of Greater Philadelphia will provide a gift of $1,250 to a First Year Camper. This program is not based on financial need. Download guideline and application forms:  www.jewishphilly.org/campincentive Application must be signed by Mindy before turning in, so don’t delay – offer is first come, first served, going fast!

The Paul G. Shane Library welcomes you
 Folkshul's own multi-media library has a home in Springside’s beautiful Klein Upper School Library. We're open for browsing and book borrowing
 ~ Sundays 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM ~
 Look at the offerings, sit and read at your leisure
and borrow materials for up to 3 weeks. We have
books for children, young people and adults; language learning materials and a large collection of videotapes/DVDs.

The Paul G. Shane Library is named to honor our longtime member who continues to volunteer, mentor and inspire us. 

MESSAGES FROM THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE: 

• The Library Database has been compiled! Printouts available
• Thanks to Jennifer Kahn for setting up our new mobile book cart and to Sue and Eric Woolf for enabling Folkshul to purchase this great educational tool for our younger grades

• We always welcome leftover gift cards to Barnes & Noble or Borders. See Joan Morein or Alice Lesnick to donate.

Jewish Book of the Week:  A Bintel Brief: Letters to the Jewish Forward  Available to borrow from the Paul G Shane Library for 3 weeks.