by Sarit Newman | May 13, 2026 | News
In these days of ongoing warfare and uncertainty, Boys Town Jerusalem students are gaining not only education but also remarkable emotional survival skills for life, reports BTJ social worker and therapist Hadas Knopf. Growing up in a reality on constant stress...
by Sarit Newman | May 4, 2026 | News
Walking solemnly together, Boys Town Jerusalem High School students joined thousands of Israelis entering Mt. Herzl National Military Cemetery on Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror. Tragically, these teens made their way to visit the...
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 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...
