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A Safe Haven for Jared
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...
A Bar Mitzvah Gift of Miracles
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...
Healing Students’ Post-Trauma with Loving Care
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...
Zach’s Journey of Healing and Growth
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...
BTJ’s Youngest Robotics Captain Leads the Future
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...
Aaron’s Whisper
With smiles lighting their faces, a class of Boys Town Jerusalem seventh graders eagerly waited to board the bus for a daylong field trip. Among...
Ori’s Shattered World
Sometimes 14-year-old “Ori” can barely remember life before everything changed—before his world shattered. There was a time when his family laughed...
A Triumphant Trek and a Loving Tribute
They did it! With determination and love, Boys Town Jerusalem’s 11th graders completed Israel’s challenging 43-mile Sea-to-Sea Trail, hiking from...
Three Brothers, Three Champions
Not a single day in Abe’s* life has been easy. His father, prone to violence, has never held a steady job. His mother, living with a disability,...








