by Sarit Newman | May 20, 2025 | News
With quiet determination, Boys Town Jerusalem High School students walked over a mile to Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery on Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror. Here they honored fallen soldiers, including recently slain BTJ grads Sergeant...
by Sarit Newman | Apr 8, 2025 | News
Soaring to victory, Boys Town Jerusalem’s Robotics team clinched second place out of 41 teams in the national 2025 Israeli First Tech Challenge Competition. The team also won the prestigious Innovate Award for robot design, as BTJ’s robot became the sole Israeli...
by Sarit Newman | Mar 19, 2025 | News
In a show of engineering innovation and skill, the shiny precision-designed and programmed robot created by Boys Town Jerusalem’s FTC Robotics Team scored a triumph in the recent Israeli FTC Robotics regional competition. Engineering excellence: a robot like no other...
by Sarit Newman | Mar 19, 2025 | News
“Eli,” a sweet-natured 13-year-old Boys Town Jerusalem student, has a very severe learning disability. Once he was placed in a small Special Education class at the start of the school year, he began to make slow but steady progress. Yet, to the frustration of the...
by Sarit Newman | Mar 10, 2025 | News
Ami*, age 14, was born optimistic. This Boys Town Jerusalem student’s positive nature seemed unbeatable, until he came face-to-face with the tragedy of his mother’s lethal cancer. Today, the school is at Ami’s side through the painful difficulties that he and his...
