Strangers No More nominated for Oscar Photo: SimonGoodman pictures. The Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv is an educational campus that serves 750+ at-risk children in grades K-12. The school is run by principal Karen Tal and her devoted staff, and with children and teenagers from twenty-eight countries. They are new immigrants, children of foreign workers, refugees from Darfur and Israeli Arabs. Many are from single-parent families. Bialik Rogozin is a caring and nurturing center that provides hot meals, music and art instruction, specialized tutoring and a solid education in a safe and welcoming environment.
Bialik-Rogozin School
Here is a video from the 2014 Bialik-Rogozin Campus Adloyada Purim Parade
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For years, money donated to the Tel Aviv Foundation has supported the Bialik-Rogozin School in many ways. The Dr. Jacob and Lena Joels Library and Resource Center serves as the heart of the school and is open from the morning to evening for the benefit of the students, teachers and parents. The Harold and Valerie Joels Dining Room and Cafeteria serves hot nutritious meals (for many of the children, this is the only place they receive such a meal) to all the students. The Music Room, donated by the Caesarea Foundation, allows the school to include two weekly hours of music lessons for kindergarten and elementary school students. Donations to the Tel Aviv Foundation also support a variety of ongoing extracurricular activities.
The Tel Aviv Foundation is currently raising money for a new gymnasium that will provide the students with proper facilities for physical exercise and another constructive afternoon activity. As Principal Tal recently said, “the secret of Bialik Rogozin’s success lies in the partnerships it has forged and in the ability of all the stakeholders to work together.”
In 2011 a documentary short about the school won an academy award for the Best Short Documentary.
Trailer for the OSCAR®-Winning documentary short, Strangers No More, about the Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv. Produced and Directed by Karen Goodman & Kirk Simon. A production of Simon & Goodman Picture Company. Check out the official movie site here: www.strangersnomoremovie.com.
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Bialik-Rogozin School
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Information on the school obtained from a variety of sources.
