by Sarit Newman | Nov 27, 2024 | News
As battles continue to rage, the entire Boys Town Jerusalem student body gathered on Israel’s first Memorial Day for victims of the Swords of Iron War. Paying tribute to over 700 soldiers slain, BTJ students were urged to boost their own efforts to help the needy, as...
by Sarit Newman | Nov 26, 2024 | News
“How could my mother have done this to me?” cried “Zeke,” an anguished Boys Town Jerusalem tenth-grader. “She barged straight into my class – in front of my friends and my teacher – to demand to speak to me. She knows I’ll never talk to her again. Ever.” Zeke’s...
by Sarit Newman | Nov 10, 2024 | News
Over one thousand people attended the funeral of Boys Town Jerusalem graduate IDF Sgt. Ariel Sosnov, killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on troops near the Lebanese border. Ariel, aged 20 at his death, left parents, four brothers – all BTJ grads – and a...
by Sarit Newman | Nov 10, 2024 | News
Red-faced and hands clenched, seventh-grader “Joel” sat directly facing Boys Town Jerusalem Junior High Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz. “Do you understand that absences are not allowed, here or in any school?” the principal asked firmly. “You must come to class.”...
by Sarit Newman | Oct 6, 2024 | News
Throughout his four years as a BTJ instructor, Avichai Charizi has sparked transformations, both as an innovative Hebrew Language teacher and a champion volunteer inspiring and guiding students to become volunteers for life. At the start of the 2024-25 schoolyear, he...
