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Today, most of the residents are not orphans, but children whose parents have mental illness or addictions, or who are severely impoverished. Some are victims of physical or emotional abuse. [13] The orphanage also accepts Jewish immigrant children from Russia and Ethiopia. [14] By the end of 2011, the orphanage houses 100 children ages 7 to 18.
Bayit Lepletot (Hebrew: בית לפליטות, literally, "Home for Refugees"), is an Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls in Jerusalem, Israel.Established in 1949 in the Mea Shearim neighborhood to accommodate young Holocaust refugees and orphans, the orphanage opened a second campus in north-central Jerusalem called Girls Town Jerusalem (Hebrew: קרית בנות, "Kiryat Banot") in 1973.
The Home for Hebrew Infants was an orphanage, originally established at 149th Street and Mott Avenue in the Bronx on April 16, 1895, to care for Jewish babies from infancy to up to five years of age, those too young to be housed with older children. [1] [2] Its goal was to support the health of those in its care and prevent child mortality.
Pages in category "Jewish orphanages" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bellefaire Orphanage;
Providing orphans with clothing, dental care, hot meals, and educational guidance 31°47′24.77″N 35°11′42.44″E / 31.7902139°N 35.1951222°E / 31.7902139; 35.1951222 The Diskin Orphanage was an orphanage in the Old City of Jerusalem , established in 1881 by Yehoshua Leib Diskin
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He was on a street in a burning Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in 1943 when a policeman scooped him up and took him to a convent. Nuns baptized him and started to raise him as a gentile with several other orphaned children. Lena Küchler-Silberman, a Jewish woman who was part of the resistance against the Nazis, heard of the children. She saved around ...
The Home for Destitute Jewish Children is a historic orphanage at 150-156 American Legion Highway in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is a three-story Classical Revival brick structure, designed by John A. Hasty and built in 1911.