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A FATHER’S TERROR

By Sarit Newman | February 8 2021 | 0 Comments.

Jake suffers from serious learning disabilities. When the pandemic first closed the schools, Jake was given a laptop, but he needed more personal connection. That’s when he was assigned to the special-ed classes.

COVID TAKES IT TOLL

By Sarit Newman | February 1 2021 | 1 Comment.

Time is not in our favor, stresses BTJ Junior High Principal Rabbi Yehudah Rosencrantz. “The longer school is closed, the more boys we risk losing. Primarily those in single-parent homes, now more poverty-stricken than ever, are taking odd jobs day and night. Many have stopped even trying to connect to their “remote” lessons. Other students, deprived of friends and activities, are addicted to digital devices. Even normative families are crumbing, with their children tempted by drugs and alcohol. Worse, scores of boys and their families are ill, and many are hungry. There’s no money for food.”

CAE GRADUATES SHINE IN THE SHADOW OF CORONA

By Sarit Newman | July 19 2020 | 1 Comment.

Sixty-two “masked” students recently graduated from Boys Town Jerusalem’s prestigious College of Applied Engineering (CAE) in a ceremony unlike any other in CAE’s 49 years. Despite the coronavirus pandemic halting classes for months, the students managed to complete the intensive two-year curriculum of electronics, software engineering, and electrical engineering. Next week the young men begin […]

SHARING NOAM’S SECRET LANGUAGE OF STRUGGLE

By Sarit Newman | June 21 2020 | 0 Comments.

Long before the coronavirus struck its blow to “normal” life, Noam,* now a seventh grader at Boys Town Jerusalem, was out of control. At home, his widowed mother had essentially lost control over his frequent tantrums, serious behavioral issues and near-total lack of boundaries. “Quite simply, Noam needs a father,” says BTJ social worker Hadas […]