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A Champion’s Fall
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...
Ariel Levy: A Salute to Heroes
With palpable sorrow, respect and admiration, the Boys Town Jerusalem High School student body rose to their feet to give fellow student Ariel Levy,...
The Mourning After: BTJ Students Struggle to Cope in Wartime
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....
Facing Trauma and Fear with Strength
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....
Harvests of Hope
As their fathers, brothers, relatives and friends are fighting on the Gaza battlefield, Boys TownJerusalem High School students have enlisted in an...
In Tribute of Heroes – Ofir Testa
As the Israeli war rages, Boys Town Jerusalem students and faculty gathered to pay tribute to four fallen grads – Sgt. Gedif Yaakov Mulugeta, Sgt....
When the Battlefield Reaches Home
The battlefield of the raging Israeli war is not confined to Gaza. Its widespread trauma now reaches every strata of Israeli society, as Boys Town...
Overcoming Wartime trauma, one step at a time
The day the Israeli war broke out, Eitan, a Boys Town Jerusalem seventh grader, experienced the tragedy and horror of his beloved uncle’s death in...
BTJ Students Initiate Relief Efforts for IDF Soldiers, War Victims
The fierce outbreak of the Israeli war kept schools closed for Operation Iron Swords’ first ten days. Yet Boys Town Jerusalem students, skilled...








