by Sarit Newman | Apr 3, 2024 | News
Each school day for 25 years, Mrs. Tova Rottenberg has painstakingly planned and served her 900 “sons” some 3,000 freshly-cooked meals daily. Cheerfully greeting each student as she dishes out the main course, she then visits each table to chat – and make sure all her...
by Sarit Newman | Apr 2, 2024 | News
Even a champion can fall to heartbreaking depths. In the case of 14-year-old Jeremy*, each rise and fall he has taken at Boys Town Jerusalem has been roller-coaster steep. Now, he’s once again struggling to climb. Jeremy was disruptive in class until he was given...
by Sarit Newman | Mar 1, 2024 | News
With palpable sorrow, respect and admiration, the Boys Town Jerusalem High School student body rose to their feet to give fellow student Ariel Levy, 15, his father and grandparents a standing ovation. The occasion: the announcement of Ariel as one of the semester’s...
by Sarit Newman | Jan 30, 2024 | News
Behind the stark numbers of the dead and wounded in Israel’s Swords of Iron War is the immeasurable pain suffered by the families of the victims. For Boys Town Jerusalem students and so many others, the suffering now extends to those experiencing greatly-increased...
by Sarit Newman | Jan 10, 2024 | News
In today’s war-struck Israel, over 40% of Boys Town Jerusalem students now have a father or brother (or both) serving in the Israel Defense Forces. Further, many students themselves suffer paralyzing fear and emotional distress fed by social media clips of Hamas...
by Sarit Newman | Jan 2, 2024 | News
As their fathers, brothers, relatives and friends are fighting on the Gaza battlefield, Boys TownJerusalem High School students have enlisted in an urgent rescue mission within Israel. Each week, several classes travel to farms across the country to roll up their...
