Boys Town Jerusalem
| Boys Town Jerusalem קרית נוער ירושלים Kiryat Noar Yerushalayim |
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20 Harav Frank St. Bayit Vegan Jerusalem Israel |
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| School type | Junior high, high school, yeshiva, technical colleges |
| Motto | From limited backgrounds to limitless futures |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Jewish |
| Established | 1949 |
| Founder | Rabbi Alexander Linchner |
| Dean | Rabbi Moshe Linchner |
| Principal | Rabbi David Twersky, junior high school Rabbi Elimelech Yaakov, high school |
| Gender | Male |
| Age range | 12–20 |
| Enrollment | 850 (2012) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Campus size | 18 acres (7.3 ha) |
| Budget | $7.5 million |
| Graduates | 6,500 |
| Website | www.boystownjerusalem.org |
Boys Town Jerusalem (Hebrew: קרית נוער ירושלים, Kiryat Noar Yerushalayim) is an Orthodox Jewish orphanage and educational institution in Jerusalem, Israel. Founded in 1949, it houses over 850 boys aged 12 to 20 on its 18 acres (7.3 ha) Bayit Vegan campus and provides on-site religious, secular, and technological education on the junior high through college levels.
It is the largest yeshiva/vocational school in the world and is one of Israel's most important technological training centers. It maintains a close working relationship with the Israel Defense Forces, which partnered in the founding of its on-campus College of Applied Engineering and makes frequent use of that college's facilities and graduates. It also has a publishing division. Boys Town Jerusalem originated the Jan Zwartendijk Award for Humanitarian Ethics and Values, which it awards annually to Holocaust-era rescuers and other proponents of humanitarian values.
Boys Town Jerusalem was founded in 1949 by Rabbi Alexander Linchner (1908–1997), a native of Brooklyn, New York, and son-in-law of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz. Linchner sought to establish a home for child Holocaust survivors, war refugees, and impoverished immigrants. He was encouraged by his father-in-law, who urged him from his deathbed "to go to Israel and save the Sephardi children from secularism". Linchner based his educational model on the Torah im Derech Eretz (Torah study combined with work) approach articulated by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.
Initial enrollment was 14 Yemenite Jewish children in a refugee camp. In 1953 the school moved into prefab huts in Bayit Vegan. Its current campus opened in 1964. By 1968, enrollment was at 650; by 1985 it had reached 1,000.
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