As the moment came for Meir to read from the Torah at his long-awaited Bar Mitzvah ceremony, his father stood proudly next to him, alongside his Boys Town Jerusalem rabbis and teachers. The service, held in the school’s synagogue on Monday, was attended by Meir’s entire seventh grade class. Yet no one could help thinking […]
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When Giora was still a youngster, his parents went through a difficult divorce. For years, Giora was shuttled between living with his parents, grandparents and other relatives. After his father remarried and started a new family, there was no room in his father’s home or heart for Giora to join them. His mother, who has […]
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“My husband and I need to speak with you, Rabbi,” the mother of an eighth-grader named Adam told Boys Town Jerusalem Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz by phone. “I’m afraid we don’t have much time.” The rabbi quickly made arrangements to meet the parents in his office that afternoon. “I had been in touch with Adam’s […]
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At the historic celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Boys Town Jerusalem Student Council Head Avraham Shapiro was one of the 30 top high school students from across Israel to be officially invited to attend the event. Representing Jerusalem in the special National Student Council delegation, Avraham was introduced to leading […]
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Boys Town Jerusalem instructor Shlomo Serok was named by the Ministry of Education as Israel’s top Computer Science & Networking teacher. This 62-year-old teacher, who has initiated some of the nation’s top computer technology programs during his 37 years at Boys Town, never received a college diploma. Instead, his university studies were abruptly curtailed by […]
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