by Sarit Newman | May 4, 2026 | News
A simple sheet of paper divided into eight squares opened 13yearold “Danny’s” most painful wounds – and his own path toward healing. “Tell your family’s story – beginning, middle, and end – using these eight squares,” instructed Boys Town Jerusalem guidance counselor...
by Sarit Newman | May 4, 2026 | News
“Please, Rabbi,” the mother pleaded. “My son is hysterical. Can you try to calm him?” As 13-year-old Moshe* took the phone, the air raid sirens outside continued to blare. “Moshe, you are strong,” Boys Town Jerusalem Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz told him...
by Sarit Newman | Feb 23, 2026 | News
At 6 AM on a recent cold winter morning, Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz arrived, as he does each day, to open the Boys Town Jerusalem school building. To his shock, he found eighth grader Jared* standing outside, shivering in the freezing air. “I had to leave...
by Sarit Newman | Feb 18, 2026 | Previous Campaigns
After over two years of war, Your Boys are traumatized. Every teacher keeps saying the same thing: we are now seeing the effects of war on these boys. Your Boys are anxious, they jump at loud noises, some are not sleeping, others are having panic attacks. With the...
by Sarit Newman | Feb 16, 2026 | News
In honor of their recent Bar Mitzvah, twin brothers Asher and Lior Freedman and family donated two new sets of tefillin (phylacteries) to Boys Town Jerusalem students in need. This generous gift adds a moving new chapter to the family’s nearly centuryold story of...
