On his last day before graduating Boys Town Jerusalem, Raphael Weissmann took seven hard looks at himself. Surrounded by an exhibition of the seven self-portraits he had painstakingly drawn over the past year, he lingered before each pastel depiction. “Officially, this is my art matriculation project. But in reality, it gave me an opportunity to […]
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This year, Rabbi Elimelech Ya’akov, legendary principal of Boys Town Jerusalem, found it more difficult than ever to select the four top students for valedictorian awards at the Class of 2011 commencement ceremony. So many students had made such outstanding accomplishments that the task was a daunting one. Yet one graduate, Netanel Aharoni, had already […]
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