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...
by Sarit Newman | Feb 2, 2026 | News
Elliot,* a ninth grader at Boys Town Jerusalem, has stopped sleeping over the two recent war years in Israel. His dad and brothers serve in combat units, his mom is anguished, and his own panic attacks have become near paralyzing. To help Elliot and the growing number...
by Sarit Newman | Jan 5, 2026 | News
Zach* was so young when his father walked out – leaving the family and never returning – that he has no memory of the day it happened. Yet every day since, Zach has been trying to navigate his own path through life. Searching for direction at a critical age Now 15,...
by Sarit Newman | Jan 4, 2026 | News
At just 14 years old, Boys Town Jerusalem ninth-grader Amichai Romaine has become the youngest Team Captain in the history of BTJ’s renowned FTC Robotics Team. And his rise to success has just begun… “The perfect choice for team captain” “The entire team agreed that...
