Prof. Haber Helps Develop International
Character of ORT Vocational School System
TEL AVIV, Israel—Despite the
threatening war situation, the cul-
tural activities of Israel go on,
even if some of them are inevi-
tably curtailed due to shortage of
staffs. The Israel museums and the
theaters retain their normal sched-
ules. Concerts have not been can-
celled and Richard Tucker and
Roberta Peters have remained to
complete their scheduled appear-
ances here.
While students from universities
have been called to active service
and teaching staffs have been re-
duced, there has been no cessation
of normal functions of the vital
educational systems.
In the midst of war threats, one
of the world's most effective voca-
tional training systems, the ORT
network of schools which already
has been developed on an inter-
national scale, has extended its
activities to African countries.
has been achieved by the
world president of ORT, Dr. Wil-
liam Haber of Ann Arbor, who has
just returned from an organizing
trip during which he helped
strengthen the ORT African pro-
gram.
Reporting here on the results of
his survey of ORT work while
visiting installations in Mali,
Guinea and Gabon, Dr. Haber de-
scribed ORT activities already con-
ducted in Kenya and the Ivory
a fashion department with the aid
of Lola Beer.
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There is no doubt that Tech-
nion is a major factor in tech-
nical teaching. The great school
located in Technion City on the
Carmel has developed so rapidly
that it is now a major pride of
Jews everywhere.
Detroiters who have established
projects at the Technion (the De-
troit Technion Society members,
the Brody family, and others) can
look with great satisfaction to the
achievements of a school to which
they have given their interest and
dedication.
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People visiting Israel would do
well to take note of a great
institution which is not too well
known but whose program de-
serves worldwide attention. It is
Boys Town — Kiryat Noar — a
religiously-oriented school for
boys whose accomplishments are
a source of amazement.
This school now has the coopera-
tion of the ORT movement and
Dr. Haber has given it encourage.
ment. It is the brainchild of a most
amazing personality—Rabbi A. S.
Limchner—who, 18 years ago, com-
menced a program of farming and
boys' training with 12 youngsters.
He felt the need of teaching trades
to youth in Israel. Now there are
several hundred students, hundreds
of graduates many of whom have
continued their studies at the
Technion, and the variety of de-
partments carried on productively
is fantastic.
Its printing department is re-
vealing evidence of its progress.
It prints guides in many colors,
has published many outstanding
literary works and can tackle al-
most any printing job on a photo-
offset basis.
Similarly, the school's produc-
tion of precision instruments, the
boys' skill in many mechanical un-
dertakings, will thrill tourists and
may encourage greater aid for a
great institution.
Boys Town, while religiously
oriented, stays out of politics.
Rabbi Linchner has refused to af-
filiate with any party. He is in a
sense a non-partisan and the ful-
fillment of his visionary work is
on a universal scale.
Rabbi Linchner's dream is de-
veloping into a vast campus with
laboratories, dormitories, facilities
for great technical accomplish.
ments.
One stands in admiration for the
labors of Rabbi Linchner who has
developed a great institution out
of the beginnings of his dream
commenced with the dozen boys
from a maabara.
Ira Guilden of New York is chair-
Friday, June 2, 1967-15
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
American-Israel Chamber Presents
Award of Merit to Ford Motor Co.
NEW YORK (JTA) — More than
600 leaders of industry, commerce,
banking and transportation reaf-
firmed their support of Israel and
their readiness to continue their
investment and trade ties with the
Jewish State.
At the an nual dinner of the
American-Israel Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry, the represen-
tatives of a cross section of Ameri-
can business heard Nathan Straus
III, chairman of the national ex-
man of the Boys To w n board.
Prominent Jews are becoming in-
terested in Boys Town activities.
So far not a single Detroiter shares
in these great labors.
It is no doubt due to labors of
men like R a b b i Linchner, and
thanks to the progress of Boys
Town, that Prof. Haber said in a
message from Jerusalem to Michi-
gan Jewry:
"Soon, thousands of religiously-
oriented boys and girls will he
the messengers not only of their
deep faith but also of the technical
achievements of Israel. We have
gained great insight into the need
for vocational training among re-
ligious groups in Israel and we see
the fruits of our labors. This is one
of the great achievements of our
time through the ORT develop-
ment program."
ecutive committee, call on mem-
bers to remember, and "remind
others" of the large American
stake in Israel's economy.
"Many thousands," he said,
"have invested capital in Israel
and several hundred American
firms are sharing in Israel's
e c ono m i c growth. As clouds
again gather ominously around
Israel's borders, it is important
that it be remembered that Is-
rael—with its many friends on
the political and other levels—
also has devoted friends in mat-
ters of industry, commerce and
economic viability."
The Ford Motor Co. was pre-
sented with the chamber's annual
Award of Merit, on the occasion of
the 30th anniversary of Ford's
operations in Israel and the de-
cision to start assembly of Ford
passenger cars in Israel.
Accepting the award from Max-
well M. Rabb, president of the
chamber, Donald N. Frey, vice-
president of Ford, reiterated his
company's credo of "participation
in the economic growth and the
development of all countries where
we are welcome."
"Israel," he stated, "is an out-
standing example of the kind of
economic progress that can be
made by a country that accepts
and promotes the free enterprise
system."
Coast.
It was at the invitation of the
United States government that
ORT began to administer voca-
tional training programs in African
countries. Dr. Ilaber was especially
enthusiastic about the ORT pro-
gram in Guinea. Ile viewed the
ORT technicians as a Jewish peace
corps that brings constructive
teaching methods to underdevel-
oped countries.
Dr. Haber reported that there
are 65 ORT vocational instructors
in Africa. He said a strong friend-
ship is being established between
Africans and Jews as a result of
these efforts and he emphasized
that it is not ORT's intention to
remain indefinitely in the countries
to which it brings assistance. The
aim is to train local experts to
take over such tasks and to con-
tinue them. ORT plans to withdraw
from Mali in 1968, already having
trained "teachers of teachers" in
a program provided for 1,000 stu-
dents there.
-The ORT programs in 17 vital
worldwide areas have brought
fame to a movement intended to
train Jews for productive pur-
suits. The largest number of stu -
dents is in the ORT schools in
Israel, where more than 25.000
students are being trained. The
largest installations are in Tel
Aviv and Nathanya. There are
schools in other parts of Israel.
including an ORT program for
Druze students in Isufia in the
Carmel area near Haifa.
Second largest is the ORT pro-
gram in France where 6,000 refu-
gees from Algeria' are being taught
trades. There are three training
units in the United States for ap-
proximately 800 students.
The Israel ORT story is one of
the most fascinating and most con-
structive. In the Singalowsky Cen-
ter. in the Shapiro Apprenticeship
School, boys are being trained for
vital tasks in life and for creative
pursuits in Israel.
Many important precision instru-
ments arc made by these students.
and their activities are of such a
wide variety that they embrace
every aspect of technical work.
A number of the graduates pur-
sue their studies at the Technion,
one of Israel's great institutions
and the most important engineer-
ing college in the entire Middle
East. The vast majority of the stu-
dents pursue their work in Israel's
industries—as electricians, print-
ers, carpenters, locksmiths and
general mechanics. Girls specialize
In dressmaking, and only last
week, at Ashkelon, ORT introduced
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Henry Jones and the Onai Bfrith
In 1843, American Jewry was in a chaotic
state. The common heritage was being
submerged in differences bred and fos-
tered by the widely varied immigrant
backgrounds of its members, and by
growing antagonism between Orthodoxy
and the new Reformers. At a time when
unified action was virtually non-existent,
Henry Jones stepped in to create the first
working alliance of American Jews.
The new lodge which he called to order
on October 13th of that year was dedi-
cated to uniting Jews in the promotion
of their own highest interests and those
of humanity. It incorporated the prin-
ciples of philanthropy, honor and patrio-
tism—principles befitting the Sons of the
Covenant, the b'nai b'rith of Abraham.
Incredibly, little is known about the
Sounder of the Independent Order of
B'nai B'rith. Henry Jones evidently
shunned the spotlight ; he refused the
presidency of the organization, and
served instead as its secretary. But in
B'nai B'rith he left a monument that tes-
tifies superbly to the quality and strength
of his intellect and character. Brilliantly
blue - printed, the organization was an
immediate and enormous success, and its
influence on the American Jewish com-
munity has been incalculable.
Because of his self-imposed anonym-
ity, few people today are aware of Jones'
enormous contribution to his people. But
Julius Bien, B'nai B'rith's official histo-
rian and its president for 32 years, re-
members: "His was the strong hand
that kept the wheel straight on the
course that he had determined upon, and
only a man endowed as he was with
strength of intellect and character,
succeed in his great purpose."
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