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New Holocaust Memorial in Center City

New Holocaust Memorial in Center City

Rachel Soloff January 8, 2019

In 1964, a Holocaust survivor named Nathan Rapoport created the statue Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, the first public monument honoring the Holocaust in North America. The statue sat for decades...

FSS Students Attend MARD Conference

FSS Students Attend MARD Conference

Matin Yaqubi and Angelica Scotto November 30, 2018

The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Region Diversity Conference (MARD) was held at Perkiomen School on November 3rd, 2018 with the theme of “Hear Me, See Me.” The conference was organized by the faculty...

Clubs that Change the World: Black Student Union

Clubs that Change the World: Black Student Union

Rachel Soloff November 27, 2018

In 1969, a group of students proposed the idea of a Black Student League to the Board of Trustees, and they were turned down. However, the students did not rest until Friends Select had a Black Student...

Advance Friends Select: Part One

Advance Friends Select: Part One

The Advance Friends Select strategic plan will inaugurate a new era of FSS
Yiming (Victor) Pan November 25, 2018

The Advance Friends Select (a.k.a Advance 2021) strategic plan is a set of goals for the school to gradually achieve a new level of excellence in one to five years through refining the holistic teaching...

A memorial to commemorate 5 of the 11 victims of the tragedy.

Upper School Students Collaborate with Faculty to Organize Vigil in Wake of Recent National Hate Crimes

Adrian Altieri November 15, 2018

Upper School students and co-presidents of the Jewish Student Union, Rachel Soloff and Alex Shapiro, worked with teachers Fred Kogan, Natalie Mayer, and Heather Fortune to organize a lunchtime vigil and...