The Kohelet Foundation

Dear Community Member,

At Back To School Nights across our community, the message was clear - the education of our children is at risk because our schools have no new books.

As the last state in the nation to pass its budget, funding for all Pennsylvania schools, public and private, secular and religious, remains frozen. This means that across the state, schools have not been able to provide teaching materials to students. Some books can be reused from previous years, but many cannot. New curricula can’t be implemented and teachers are faced with conducting classes as usual without the most fundamental tools of education.

Books are essential to a child’s academic success and the children in our community still have no new books for school!

Devoted to the Jewish community and focused on supporting Jewish education in Philadelphia, the Kohelet Foundation is taking action to deal with this crisis. We have already granted funds to every Day School for the immediate purchase of those books that are essential to the education of their students. But we can’t do it alone!

We invite you to join us and contribute to the Kohelet Book Fund. Together we’ll ensure that our schools can complete their book orders and provide our children with the tools they need to grow into the future of our community.

A $50 contribution buys all the materials needed to educate one student this year. Contributions of any amount will make a huge difference.

Please send checks made out to “Kohelet Foundation” directly to the Foundation at 223 North Highland Avenue, Merion Station, PA 19066 or to one of our community day schools in an envelope marked Kohelet.

Additionally, please make a note on the check that it is designated for the “Book Fund.”

Thank you for partnering with the Kohelet Foundation.

David Magerman, President

Holly Cohen, Associate Director