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<center><b>Advice From A Minister</b></center>

Advice From A Minister

Date: February 2012

Alex Belokopitov, a Russian-born Israeli student at Boys Town Jerusalem’s College of Applied Engineering, never dreamed who would be offering him sage advice on his senior solar energy project: none other than the Minister of National Infrastructure Uzi Landau. On a recent visit to Boys Town, the

<center><b>Quenching A Nation's Thirst</b></center>

Quenching A Nation's Thirst

Date: February 2012

Although he’s virtually unknown to the public eye, Shai Dreizen, 48, is responsible for providing over one million Israelis with the very water they drink. As general manager of the Ashkelon Water Desalination Plant, the largest of its kind in the world, Dreizen stands at the helm of a

<center><b>Acts Of Kindness</b></center>

Acts Of Kindness

Date: February 2012

Just in time for the upcoming Tu B’Shvat (New Year of the Trees) celebration, a hardy group of Boys Town 10th graders volunteered their time and efforts to help prepare food packages for needy Jerusalem families. After assembling cardboard cartons and sorting out the hundreds of food products

<center><b>Double Feature</b></center>

Double Feature

Date: Januaryr 2012

Twice as much as their fellow students, four sets of twins are studying and thriving at Boys Town Jerusalem. Identical twins Eitan and Re’em Bernstein and Elnatan and Uriel Ben Chamo (8th grade) have succeeded in confounding students and faculty into thinking they’re seeing double. Fraternal twins

<center><b>Minister on the Roof</b></center>

Minister on the Roof

Date: December 2011

Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkowitz climbed atop the roof of Boys Town Jerusalem to inaugurate the school’s new solar energy system. The ceremony, held just before Chanukah, included the hookup of a special photovoltaic panel to kindle the school’s

<center><b>From Westchester To Jerusalem</b></center>

From Westchester To Jerusalem

Date: November 2011

A Thanksgiving weekend "chesed" project by students from the Westchester Day School put smiles on the faces of Boys Town Jerusalem students thousands of miles away. The diligent Westchester kids—including fourth through eighth graders—volunteered to make colorful bookmarks for less

<center><b>IDF Spokesperson at BTJ</b></center>

IDF Spokesperson at BTJ

Date: November 2011

Six months after being named to the prestigious post of Chief Spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces, Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai came back to his high school alma mater, Boys Town Jerusalem. "I began my journey here," he told students and faculty. "This is where I learned

<center><b>Boys Best Friend</b></center>

Boys Best Friend

Date: November 2011

Seven frisky dogs and 14 eager seventh graders at Boys Town Jerusalem have become best friends indeed, thanks to an innovative new extra-curricular activity aimed to teach the youngsters to train dogs. For the canines, this interaction can improve their chances of being adopted or becoming a

<center><b> Self Defense At BTJ</b></center>

Self Defense At BTJ

Date: September 2011

At age 16, Jeremy Azar clinched the title as the “Thai Boxing” Champion of France. Now 33, the martial arts champ is contending in a very different, but no less challenging arena: teaching 16-year-old students at Boys Town Jerusalem to become tolerant, level-headed young men--who are highly skilled

<center><b>A+ Teacher</b></center>

A+ Teacher

Date: October 2011

When Boys Town Jerusalem computer instructor Shlomo Saruk was recently named one of the top 100 teachers in Israel, he defied both the odds and fate itself. The 54-year-old teacher, who has initiated some of the nation’s top computer technology programs during his 30 years at Boys Town, never

<center><b>A Perfect Score</b></center>

A Perfect Score

Date: June 2011

Ashnafeh Entenne and Aterso Ubayu, both 16 years old, finished all formal schooling in their native Ethiopia by grade three. When they reached Israel four years ago, they returned to the schoolroom at last-- literally worlds away-- in a program for new Ethiopian immigrants at Boys Town Jerusalem.

<center><b>Opportunity Of A Lifetime</b></center>

Opportunity Of A Lifetime

Date: September 2011

Just before the Jewish New Year began, 21 young Jewish teenage boys began a new life in a new land, leaving their families behind in Russia to come to Israel. The intrepid 14-year-olds were bound for Boys Town Jerusalem, where they will live and study in the special Russian-language “Ohr Dessa”

New Year’s “Blast” At Boys Town Jerusalem

New Year’s “Blast” At Boys Town Jerusalem

Date: September 2011

In preparation for the upcoming Jewish New Year, seventh graders at Boys Town Jerusalem took a deep breath before testing their prowess at the complex art of “shofar” blowing. The shofar is the traditional ram’s horn, whose awe-inspiring blasts have sounded for the Jewish People from time

Training R & D Experts

Training R & D Experts

Date: September 2011

Twenty-five of the best and brightest new high school grads in Israel have just tackled a major challenge aimed to contribute to Israel's safety. The young men, who hail from cities throughout Israel, all excelled in their majors of English, math or physics. Although currently they have no

Under Fire

Under Fire

Date: September 2011

For a number of students at Boys Town Jerusalem, "back-to-school" this September meant coming back from a deadly nightmare that was real. These young students are residents of cities in Israel’s south, which came under an ongoing hail of lethal rocket fire throughout the summer. Among

Robotic Seeing-Eye Dog

Robotic Seeing-Eye Dog

To help grant the blind greater independence in life skills, three Boys Town Jerusalem students have devoted their senior project to harness technology--and the "artificial intelligence" of robots"to produce a robotic seeing-eye dog. Menashe Mondaneh, Lior Or-Hayim and Oriel Manzur, who majored in

From Desert to Desktop

From Desert to Desktop

Three years after taking their first steps into an Israeli high school, 14 young Ethiopian immigrants at Boys Town Jerusalem have passed the true acid test for entry to Israeli student life: Like nearly every 10th grader in the country, they recently took the national, standardized bagrut

Building for the Future

Building for the Future

While Boys Town Jerusalem’s students are home enjoying their summer vacation, the school’s campus is a lively hub of construction for four major projects that will greatly enrich the students’ security, environment, body and soul: The school’s newly-installed solar energy system is already

French Connection

French Connection

As growing anti-Semitism poses a greater threat for the French Jewish community, Boys Town Jerusalem celebrated the 10th anniversary of a phenomenal program to transplant young French students into the safety of the State of Israel. In 2001, Boys Town launched the "Na’ale Zion" program to provide

Mother Rachel

Mother Rachel

One of the busiest offices at Boys Town Jerusalem is officially called the Registrar’s Office. For the past 23 years, it has been managed by a woman named Rachel, fondly called “Mother Rachel” by students. No matter how full her office may be, it’s clear why the students link her with our Matriarch

Shared Pride

Shared Pride

Two of the proudest people at the recent Boys Town Jerusalem high school graduation were 12th grader Menashe Mondaneh and his father, Yosef. "My father is one of the most special people in the world," declared Menashe, as he guided his father’s wheelchair into the packed auditorium. "There’s no one

Against All Odds

Against All Odds

This year, Rabbi Elimelech Ya’akov, legendary principal of Boys Town Jerusalem, found it more difficult than ever to select the four top students for valedictorian awards at the Class of 2011 commencement ceremony. So many students had made such outstanding accomplishments that the task was a

Seven Faces

Seven Faces

On his last day before graduating Boys Town Jerusalem, Raphael Weissmann took seven hard looks at himself. Surrounded by an exhibition of the seven self-portraits he had painstakingly drawn over the past year, he lingered before each pastel depiction. “Officially, this is my art matriculation

A Mayor's Note

A Mayor's Note

For Herbert Bautista, mayor of Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, a visit to Boys Town Jerusalem high on the agenda of his recent visit to Israel. Accompanied by Vice-Mayor Joy Belemonte, and Strategic Communications Coordination Chief Regina Samson, Mayor Bautista was given a

Real Life Hero

Real Life Hero

IDF Lieutenant Colonel D.*, a Boys Town Jerusalem graduate who commands a combat regiment defending Israel’s southern border, returned to his alma mater on Memorial Day to convey an important message to today’s students: "You are exposed to more dangers than was the case in my generation. Your

500 Years Later

500 Years Later

In the darkest days of the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400s, the Jews of Spain and Portugal were tortured and murdered for refusing to convert to Christianity. A number of Jews, called marranos, chose to openly convert, yet secretly continued to observe their Jewish customs. Some 500 years

A Survivors Message

A Survivors Message

“Don’t dwell on how pathetic you may think a Holocaust survivor is. We are strong, and we are living proof that you must look ahead, not behind,” declared 83-year-old Avraham Carmi—a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and 10 concentration camps—in a talk to students at Boys Town Jerusalem. Carmi

Robo Champs Again

Robo Champs Again

After weeks of intensive late-night preparation, a stalwart eight-member team of Boys Town Jerusalem 9th graders recently entered the "combat zone" to spar in battle. Their weapon: a mighty, motorized foot-tall robot, composed of hundreds of multi-colored Lego pieces and a computerized "brain," all

College of Applied Engineering 2011 Graduation

College of Applied Engineering 2011 Graduation

"You have been given the very finest technological and Jewish education, fully preparing you to assume crucial roles in the Israeli Defense Forces," said Lieutenant Colonel Benayahu Jamus, Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Navy, to the graduates of Boys Town Jerusalem’s College of Applied Engineering

NEXT GENERATION BTJ MEN’S MISSION TO ISRAEL

NEXT GENERATION BTJ MEN’S MISSION TO ISRAEL

Twenty "Next Generation" community leaders, from South Florida, Philadelphia and Toledo traveled to Israel on Boys Town Jerusalem’s Men’s Mission. The action-packed March 29-April 5th trip was co-chaired by Stephen Fiske, Jeffrey Herman and Glenn Moses. The goal of the Mission was to familiarize

Breaking News: Our Boys Bring Home the Gold

Breaking News: Our Boys Bring Home the Gold

In a sweeping victory, Boys Town Jerusalem’s athletic team took first prize in the Light Athletics Division of the annual National Yeshiva High School Sports Tournament, held at the Givat Washington Sports Institute. The winning Boys Town team trounced 24 other schools from across the nation to

Thank You 73 Years Later

Thank You 73 Years Later

Nearly 75 years after the Philippine government took bold steps to offer refuge to Jews under Nazi persecution, Israel’s youngest generation recently paid tribute to the Philippine nation. At a ceremony at Boys Town Jerusalem, in the presence of Philippine Ambassador to Israel Petronila P. Garcia

To the IDF with Love

To the IDF with Love

Seventh graders at Boys Town Jerusalem the youngest students in the school, set about with a zeal to pack over 100 Purim mishloach manot (food packages) to be delivered to BTJ graduates now serving in the Israeli army. Each package contained traditional hamentashen, cakes, snacks and beverages for

TOP AIR FORCE GENERAL BRIEFS STUDENTS

TOP AIR FORCE GENERAL BRIEFS STUDENTS

Brigadier General Ran Levy, head of the Materiel Directorate of the Israeli Air Force, paid a visit to Boys Town Jerusalem last week to share his insights with students and to familiarize himself with the advanced technological subjects they are studying. General Levy, one of six brigadier generals

COMING

COMING "HOME" TO BOYS TOWN TO TEACH THE NEWEST GENERATION

The moment Shmuel David graduated Boys Town Jerusalem in 1997, he reached for the sky. He enlisted in the Israeli Air Force, became an officer and spent nearly a decade training soldiers for the highly-advanced F15-I Eagle ("Ra’am") fighter plane. Now employed as an electronics engineer back in

BTJ GRAD RETURNS

BTJ GRAD RETURNS "HOME" ON A LIFESAVING MISSION

Nir Buzaglo, 31, who heads the Magen David Adom Blood Donations for the Jerusalem region, recently returned to Boys Town Jerusalem, his alma mater, to take command of a lifesaving mission. Concerned by the severely depleted reserve of blood units throughout Israel, the school had organized a blood

A TRIUMPH FOR MENASHE

A TRIUMPH FOR MENASHE

“Sometimes, my mind suddenly jolts me back in time to see myself as the sassy troublemaker I was when I started Boys Town in 7th grade. I look at that kid and think how hard it must have been for my teachers to turn me around. But now I can see that they gave me the greatest gift of a lifetime,”

BTJ Selected By The Israeli Army To Offer MAROM’ Program to Train Specialists in R&D

BTJ Selected By The Israeli Army To Offer MAROM’ Program to Train Specialists in R&D

The Israel Defense Forces has selected Boys Town Jerusalem’s College of Applied Engineering (CAE) as one of five training centers in the nation to offer the “Marom” program, aimed to train top-level students in technological research and development skills prior to their IDF enlistment. The

A FAMILY AFFAIR: FIFTH GENERATION VISITS BOYS TOWN

A FAMILY AFFAIR: FIFTH GENERATION VISITS BOYS TOWN

Over 60 years ago, when Boys Town Jerusalem founder Rabbi Alexander Linchner established this groundbreaking institution to provide vocational skills coupled with solid academics and Jewish studies for immigrant youth pouring into the new State of Israel, he desperately needed the assistance of

NEW HOMELAND, NEW ADVENTURES

NEW HOMELAND, NEW ADVENTURES

Sixteen teenage boys from cities across the Ukraine arrived in Israel at the start of the school year to begin a very exciting new chapter in their young lives. As participants in Boys Town Jerusalem’s Russian-language “Ohr Dessa” program, they are now living on the Jerusalem-based campus and

BOYS TOWN TAPPED FOR NEW, AUGMENTED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

BOYS TOWN TAPPED FOR NEW, AUGMENTED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

Boys Town Jerusalem has been selected by the Israeli Ministry of Education as one of 25 schools in the entire country to offer an intensive, augmented curriculum of technological studies, set to begin at the upcoming school year. The move is part of a major national undertaking to boost the

Jerusalem’s First Solar Powered Menorah

Jerusalem’s First Solar Powered Menorah

This Chanukah, Jerusalem’s first solar-powered menorah, will be "lit" during the holiday atop a roof on the school in Bayit Vegan neighborhood - the highest point in metropolitan Jerusalem. In a precedent-setting move, Boys Town Jerusalem became the first school in Jerusalem—and among

Fourth Generation of Beren Family Attends Dedication of New State-of-the-Art Israel Henry Beren Electronics Center

Fourth Generation of Beren Family Attends Dedication of New State-of-the-Art Israel Henry Beren Electronics Center

The fourth generation of the philanthropic Beren family was represented at a ceremony dedicating the new Israel Henry Beren Electronics Center. Elizabeth Jefferson and her brother Alexander, great niece and nephew of Israel Henry Beren, toured the Boys Town campus with newly elected Jerusalem Mayor

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