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Swiss Recognition
Chemin de I'ORT—The ORT Road—is the official name of a
narrow road that lies on the Swiss-French border . . . It was
named by the Swiss authorities in recognition of the good work
conducted by the World ORT Union which has its headquarters
in Geneva . . . The road leads to an imposing building in Anieres,
Switzerland, where the ORT maintains its Institute for training
instructors to be sent later to ORT schools for vocational training
in various countries . . . Little is known in the United States about
this institution of higher vocational education, although much is
known by American Jewry of the work of ORT in general . . .
However, in Switzerland, as well as in other countries, this Jewish
school of high technical knowledge is considered one of the best
in the world . . . Sufficient to say that the U.S. Government has
now arranged for sending to underdeveloped countries instructors
who graduated from this ORT institute in Anieres . .. The Swiss
government is financing the training in the ORT institute of
instructors for agricultural and industrial programs in African
countries . . . The Congo has sent a group of its technical stu-
dents to the ORT Institute in Anieres for the completion of
their courses in high vocational training . . . The government of
Iran is now maintaining a group of 14 of its students-11 of them
non-Jews—in the ORT institution of higher technical learning .. .
All this is done within the framework of technical aid given by
the governments of the United States and Switzerland to newly
established countries . . . The instructors-to-be have to spend two
years in the ORT Institute and have to take some of their courses
also in the Higher Technical College of Geneva . . All of them
—except those who are married—must live during the two years
in the ORT dormitories at the Institute which can match in com-
fort any dormitory in any of the American higher schools of
learning . . . The Institute maintains a synagogue for religious
students and its kitchen, which prepares all the meals for the
students, is strictly kosher . . . The students come from various
countries where ORT maintains schools for vocational training
for the Jewish youth . . . Following their graduation, they return
to. their native lands, to become teachers in the_ ORT schools
there . . . So perfect are the teaching methods of the ORT
Institute, that they have been studied by vocational specialists
of 12 countries . . . The International Labor Office .has taken
considerable interest in the Institute, and the Ford Foundation,
a few years ago, granted scholarships to 20 Israelis to study
there . . . More than 30 Israeli instructors in the Ruppin Agri-
cultural Institute of Israel have been selected from farm settle-
ments for advanced study in agro-mechanics in the ORT Institute.
Food for Thought
The high respect which ORT enjoys on the part of many
governments—including the governments of the United States
and Israel—should give food for thought to American Jewish
organizations interested in Jewish education . . . It was news to
me to hear in Geneva from Max Braude, director general of the
World- ORT Union, that no American organization interested in
Jewish education has declared itself ready to provide an all-
embracing impartial program for Jewish education for pupils in
the ORT schools .. . The ORT is essentially an organization for
vocational training and not for general Jewish education . . .
But ORT schools are located in various countries where—except
in Israel—a large number of the pupils have no opportunity to
acquire Jewish education in separate schools as was the case
in pre-war years . . . In some countries no Jewish educational
system-is existing today at all .. . It is for this reason that the
ORT is interested in introducing Jewish education in its schools
parallel with vocational training—a step for which ORT leadership
should be congratulated . . . However, when Braude approached
American Jewish oraani7ations which constantly stress the impor-
tance of Jewish education and asked them. to work out a program
for the ORT schools. he met with a rather unresponsive attitude
. . It seems that the talk about Jewish education, which many
American Jewish organizations like to advance at meetings and
in resolutions, is like Mark Twain's classic remark about the
weather—everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything .. .
Disappointed in the attitude of the American Jewish educational
and religious groups whom he approached, Braude is now planning
a Jewish education program for ORT schools prepared by his own
organization, without the advice of the unwilling American Jew-
ish groups whose interest he solicited in vain . . . There are
thousands of Jewish pupils in the ORT vocational schools today,
and the need to teach them Jewishness side by side with voca-
tions should be obvious to anybody . . . Why American Jewish
educational as well as religious organizations of all denominations
—Reform, Conservative and Orthodox—should neglect to actively
respond to the call which the ORT addressed to them is some-
thing that will puzzle any Jew . . . It would be useless to name
here all the central Jewish bodies in New York who turned a
cold shoulder to the plea of the ORT . . . All that can be said
about them is, that each of these organizations had its own
interest in mind—and not the interest of Jewish education—when
they could not act jointly to prepare a program for the ORT
. . . They were obviously motivated by group partisanship rather
than by dedication to the work of implanting Jewish knowledge
Open Ryback Museum in Bat Yam, Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Bat famous Russian-born Jewish ar-
Yam municipality opened a new tist, Y. B. Ryback, whose works
art museum named for the will be permanently exhibited
there. A pioneer of modern
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On the Record
By
NATHAN ZIPRIN
Page From My Diary . .
More than six decades are
now witness to the verity that
never in all the days of my
life have I trespassed the
sanctity that is Yom Kippur.
There were moments, I con-
fess, when there was introspec-
tion and balancing as if with
apothecary's hand, but always
there was the guiding finger
and the remberance of the gen-
erations of the pious, the dedi-
cated and the consecrated
whose mystique has always
held for me irrestible lure.
Yom Kippur is a day of awe,
dedicated to penitence, forgive-
ness and recantation of error,
sin and folly, the one day in
the year when man is alone
with his God and himself.
All humans strive for regen-
eration, personal, spiritual and
religious. Its attainment lies
in aloneness, that rare moment
when man is with himself and
his creator in sanctified de-
tachment from world and bur-
den.
Our ancestors knew that
aloneness, as did the chosen of
the world over the ages. The
essence of Yom Kippur is rec-
ognition of the fallibility of
man and of his striving to re-
turn to the path. But confes-
sion and expiation is not in
proclamation, only in whisper-
ing that is inaudible even to
one's own ear.
Scripture might well have
envisioned the ineffable mo-
ment that over takes every Jew
the awesome seconds before
Kol Nidre when it counselled
man that God ias heard not in
the fury of wind or storm but
in still, small voice.
The leaves will be falling
when our holiday season ends.
May they bring balm to eye,
comfort to heart and peace to
soil in fulfillment of a purpose
whose treasures are as bounti-
ful as they are mysterious.
The story of three centuries
of Jewish life on American soil
requires for recording an ever
increasing canvas, for in a way
it is the poignant tale and saga
not alone of men but of man.
We all have stories of our be-
ginnings here. Mine is the tale
of escape from a miracle.
It was the miracle of the
open door, and it happened in
the small Ukranian town of my
birth. A peasant and his family
of six had been slain by rob-
bers in the night. As the goyim
were gathering to vent wrath
on the Jewish community for a
crime later admitted by the
area's most notorious cattle
thief, a Jewish coachman har-
nessed his horses and sped for
help to an adjacent town. When
the cossacks arrived the mob
was going berserk in the market
square and, as happened almost
always in those czarist days, the
supposed defenders of the law
joined hands with the pogrom-
bent peasants.
As the surging mob swooped
down on the Jewish section of
the town, window shutters dark-
ened homes and people barri-
caded themselves behind locked
doors. Distraught mothers were
hiding their young in attics and
elderly pious were groping for
succor in prayer.
Our home was located diag-
onally across from the church
in the center of the town.
Grandmother. a miniature in
stature but a giant in courage
and faith, surveyed the situa-
tion with penetrating eyes from
the open porch and at once de-
creed the lifting of shutters
and the opening of doors.
We were saved, said pious
Jews, by the miracle of the
open door.
Grandmother did not long
survive the shock, but long
enough to impart the wisdom
that our salvation rested in
escape from the miracle of the
open door. Before many months
we knocked at the door of
another miracle—America.
JERUSALEM—Queen Ratna of Nepal (center) is shown
during a recent visit to Hadassah's Alice Seligsberg Vocational
High School for Girls in Jerusalem, accompanied by Mrs. Isaac
Olshan, wife of Israel's Chief Justice, who is chairman of the
Hadassah Council in Israel. The Queen was escorted by Israel's
Women's Army Lieutenant Ruth •Eytan, daughter of Walter
Eytan, Israel's Ambassador to France. While at the Seligsberg
School, the Queen examined the beadwork and embroidery
made by the students. She also was guest of honor at a lunch-
eon prepared by the students.
Anti-Jewish Mail Drive Hits Denver
DENVER (JTA) — Members
of the Colorado legislature were
among recipients of a vicious
anti-Semitic publication, one of
a series of such mailings local-
ly, marking a record August
month of dissemination of such
material in Denver.
The legislature received
copies of "The Coming Red Dic-
tatorship," a publication of the
late Conde McGinley who died
earlier this year. The publica-
tion purports to describe the
"Asiatic Marxist Jews" controll-
ing the world. Auto wrecking
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company owners received an
anonymous publication, called
"The Blueprint for World Gov-
ernment J e w Domination."
Beauty parlor operators also re-
ported receiving anti-Semitic
material.
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