Somehow, the cold weather and winter months just seem to lend themselves to indoor activities like baking. Girls Town Jerusalem is no different and the kids here are totally into their weekly baking class. There are so many important lessons that the girls can learn via the baking activity group. Firstly, baking always involves some math in the measuring and weighing of ingredients (especially when we double or even triple recipes!). Actually, the children here very often

GTJ celebrate Chanukah with party and gift giving - thanks to YOUR help!

While the girls were (thankfully) away on the last days of Pesach, a gang of burglars broke into the Girls Town dorm two nights in a row. After cutting the alarm system, these professional burglars cleaned out the dorm rooms and stole many expensive and sentimental items belonging to the girls. They caused much damage on Thursday night and then came back on Friday night to finish off the job. Our house mother and her family were the only ones in residence, and her teenage son