From left: Shlomo Serok - Director of CISCO Programme Naftali Goldenberg - Assistant principal, Jeffrey Pinnick, Shlomo Amsalem - CISCO student ( 10th)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
In 1948, an American educator, Rabbi Alexander Linchner z“l, founded Boys Town Jerusalem. His dream was to e+stablish a residential school for children, orphaned by the terrible destruction of the Second World War. Today, the emphasis may have changed, but the need is as great as ever - to provide a haven of hope for hundreds of economically disadvantaged students who would otherwise not develop to their full potential in their home environment.

On the beautiful 18-acre campus in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Boys Town is now home to some 900 residential students. The students living on campus are able to immerse themselves fully in their studies, and concentrate on developing the skills required to integrate into Israeli society. The pressures of home life and the streets no longer disrupt their education.
Our students come from all over Israel, with their families originating from over 40 countries.

For more information, please visit our international website on http://www.boystownjerusalem.org

Dear Friends

I was delighted with the response from so many of you to our first NewsUpdate published in the Spring of this year and hope you will also enjoy this second issue.

What makes BTJ so special to those of us who have supported it over the years?

The answer is simple.

You know that whatever support is received by BTJ from its Friends, will make a difference in a life.

It will have an impact in fashioning a youngster's life, through his secular education, his religious knowledge, his technological skills or his "good citizen" programming.

It will help create a better citizen for our beloved State of Israel, at a time when there is so much danger and uncertainty and it must rely on each and every citizen to lead by example.

BTJ gives that example by its teaching and training.

I can tell you of it, or you can read of it, but nothing will show it to you more meaningfully or effectively than seeing it for yourself.


Hopefully you will take an opportunity of seeing it for yourselves when visiting Israel. We will gladly take you on as short or as long a tour of the Campus as your timescale permits.

You will see it in the faces of the boys. You will see it in their enthusiasm, their intensity, their enjoyment and their sense of purpose in all that they do. In learning, in prayer and at leisure.

What more could one possibly hope for than to be part of an endeavour to turn young boys from limited backgrounds into young men with limitless futures?

Jeffrey Pinnick

Dear Friends

Students have to attend school in spite of our on-going war with the suicide bombers and terrorists in our cities all over Israel.

The current situation in our school system mirrors that of our society at large: confusion, conflicting opinions, and daily assessments alternating between assurances and dire warnings.

Boys Town was founded in 1949 so that by now we have nearly 55 years experience and accomplishments behind us. But we are young and dynamic. There are great challenges ahead of us. Israel could be a much more beautiful place to live in, there are problems of poverty, crime, and erosion of the noble aims for which it was created. The Jewish people cannot hope to survive unless these problems are overcome.

Boys Town has made an impact on Israel, improving the quality of life and strengthening the spiritual fibres of our society. Our boys work with children of disadvantaged communities as Big Brothers firing them with enthusiasm so that they can become positively oriented citizens of Israel. Our main goal is to build character, and our boys are clean cut, industrious, and they go on to live a life based on the highest ideals of our Jewish tradition.

The students and faculty join me in wishing you and your family a
Happy Chanukah

SHALOM FROM JERUSALEM


Rabbi Moshe Linchner
Dean


The Boys Town curriculum integrates academic and religious studies with advanced technological skills. A new programme, Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Technology (CIT) was recently introduced at the school and has won the acclaim of educators and Government officials. CIT integrates the various disciplines - chemistry, physics, mechanics, electronics, computer science, etc. - into a comprehensive course of study which enables a graduating student to step into any field of technology and apply the expertise and training he acquired at Boys Town.

Recognising Boys Town's state of the art computer centre and programmes, CISCO, the American Internet/Telecommunications giant, designated Boys Town as

"The CISCO Regional Academy," the first centre in Jerusalem for the instruction of the CISCO Networking Management Programme. This curriculum for Internet Communication is now being offered to Boys Town's students.


Mr. Yaacov Shamul, a BTJ who graduated from our School of Electronics, Class of 1968, has taught Electronics at BTJ for the past 32 years. He has just received a certificate of honour from the Ministry of Education in the deptartment of Science and Technology, for his outstanding achievements in the instruction of Electronics.
The chief educational inspectors for the Instruction of Electricity and Electronics in all Israeli schools have elected Mr. Shamul to become a member of their Committee which designs educational programs for the instruction of Electronics.