When winter first set in, Guy, a lanky Boys Town Jerusalem tenth grader, left his dormitory room for school each morning via BTJ registrar Rachel Cohen-Pur’s office to warm up near her heater. Quickly noticing Guy’s threadbare clothes, Rachel began steadily replacing them with warm, good-quality hand-me-downs she has collected. Once she sighted his rundown […]
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A select group of Boys Town Jerusalem students has taken up a challenge that could profoundly influence their future. For two hours each week, these 8th-10th graders participate in an extracurricular program to learn Arabic. Among the boys’ goals: to best qualify for IDF intelligence units, gain insight into their neighbors in the Middle East, […]
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The proud collies and frisky white puppy who romp across the Boys Town Jerusalem campus each Monday afternoon for dog training sessions are not only boys’ best friends. In many cases, they’re also the boys’ best therapy to overcome emotional trauma. In all cases, they’re a generous source of love. Dog training proves to help […]
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Rabbi Alon Madmony, the newly-appointed principal of Boys Town Jerusalem High School, holds a BA in Education, an MA in Organizational Consulting, and has 19 years’ experience as a Hebrew Language teacher at the school. Yet some of his most intensive lessons took place recently in the great outdoors. The best lessons are learned outdoors […]
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Each of the fifteen students in Rabbi Mordechai Rosenfeld’s 12th grade Special Education Class at Boys Town Jerusalem has his own difficult story – and his own daunting challenges. Yet every boy knows that his teacher passionately believes in him and in his ability to shine. Each special education student had his own challenges “Our […]
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By the time Daniel*, a ninth grader, and his younger brother Ethan*, a new seventh grader, began their studies at Boys Town Jerusalem this year both brothers were drained of the energy or desire to even smile. Poverty, hunger, and cancer For over two years, their family’s poverty has grown unbearable. Their father lost his […]
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