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AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL'S
Boris Smoiar's
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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
ORT IN ACTION: "Technical Assistance" constitutes
today an important part of the aid given by the United
States to underdeveloped countries. It is also a basic func-
tion of the United Nations.
Very few, however, realize that the first to introduce
the technical assistance idea in the modern world was the
Organization for Rehabilitation through Training. Way
back in 1880 this Jewish organization embarked on a pro-
gram of vocational training of the poverty-stricken, un-
skilled, oppressed Jews in Czarist Russia. The program was
a success and was later expanded by ORT into an interna-
tional system of training unskilled Jews in many lands.
Today ORT conducts its program in more than 30 coun-
tries. It educates more than 70.000 Jews — young and adult
— in more than 100 different job skills. It helps them to
make their own way in life as qualified workers. Its largest
program is in Israel where 45,000 students are being trained
in a variety of occupations in a network of about 50 ORT
institutions that stretches from border to border. Other
sizeable programs serve Jewish communities in North Af-
rica. Iran, India, France, Italy and Latin-America.
THE U.S. AND ORT: The American ORT Federation
— which is holding its 54th national conference this week-
end in New York — is the American section of the World
ORT Union which was termed by the International Labor
Office as providing "the best private technical assistance."
The United States government, like some of the United
Nations agencies, also recognizes ORT as the world's best
private international organization for vocational training. It
therefore maintains formal agreements with ORT to oper-
ate programs for developing nations in the growth of which
the U.S. is interested. Today there are about 3,000 students
from underdeveloped countries attending ORT vocational
training courses under various technical assistance pro-
grams.
Some governments in countries where ORT maintains
its vocational schools — including such Moslem countries as
Morocco and Iran — are so impressed with the Oka voca-
tional education system that they insist that ORT facilities
in their lands be opened also for native youngsters. Since
ORT has no political and religious bias, its leadership is
very proud of this request.
FUNDING ORT PROGRAMS: The American ORT
Federation does not conduct any fund-iaising campaign. In-
stead, it receives an allocation each year from the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee toward the general budget of the
World ORT Union, its world body. The world-wide ORT
program in 1975 required about $40 million. The JDC con-
tributed to it $3,400,000 — well over 10 percent of JDC's
1975 budget — through the American ORT Federation. The
same sum is estimated for this year.
Another major source of ORT's income is funds raised
in the United States by the Women's American ORT. It has
a membership of more than 120,000 and is very articulate in
promoting the ORT idea among Jewish women all over the
country. It raises several million dollars a year through its
own efforts. Affiliated with the American ORT Federation
are also the American Labor ORT, the Business and Profes-
sional ORT and the National ORT League. Harold Fried-
man, formerly president of United HIAS, is the new presi-
dent of the American ORT Federation succeeding Prof.
William Haber, who became honorary president last year,
after being at the helm of the organization for 25 years.
One of ORT's impressive contributions to Israel is its
Rogosin Nautical School in Ashdod, training cadets for Is-
rael's growing merchant fleet. It has several hundred cadets
who all live at the school. Boys enter the school between the
ages of 13 and 15 and training varies from three to five
years. The ORT is now adding to its program in Israel also a
school of engineering that is rising on the slopes of the He-
brew University campus in Jerusalem and will be inaugu-
rated early next year.
8TH ANNUAL CONCERT
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29th, 1976, FORD AUDITORIUM 8 p.m.
SALUTE TO THE BICENTENNIAL
HONORING THE
SENIOR U.S. SENATOR
FROM MICHIGAN
THE HONORABLE
PHILIP A. HART
In 1976, the Akiva Hebrew Day School, a
living example of the heritage of those in 1776
who declared and fought valiantly for "life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" joins with
others in our American World, eternally corn-
mitted to "form a more perfect union" in cele-
brating its bi-centennial effort towards these
goals by saluting a man who without reserva-
tion symbolizes by character, conduct and
commitment the American Dream — our own
U.S. Senator — The Honorable Philip A. Hart.
PRESENTING FOR A
SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL DEBUT
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Popular Artist and Entertainer
The proposed solution,
worked out by Finance Min-
ister Yehoshua Rabinowitz
and Transport Minister Gad
Yaacobi, would have the
government continue to sub-
sidize the deficit-ridden bus
service if Egged is willing to
use the earnings of certain
of its profitable subsidiaries
to pay off its debts. So far
the Egged management has
balked at this.
The proposal was also
opposed in the Knesset Fi-
nance Committee by opposi-
tion members and by the
National Religious Party.
The government believes,
however, that if it can im-
pose coalition discipline on
the NRP, Egged might go
along. The government's
proposal also calls for the
addition of a government-
appointed director to the
Egged board.
BARRY EISENBERG — CONCERT CHAIRMAN
PHILLIP STOLLMAN — HONORARY PRESIDENT
DR. LEON FILL — HONORARY CHAIRMAN
DR. MARTIN GUYER — PRESIDENT
For Ticket Information Call Akiva Concert Office-354-1810
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AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
presents
AN EVENING WITH PETER NERO
Sunday, February 29, 1976 / 8:00 P.M. / Ford Auditorium
Proposal May End Israel's Bus Strike
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
week-long bus strike
may end if the special min-
isterial committee dealing
with it can get all of its
members to agree to a gov-
ernment proposal and the
proposal is accepted by the
management of the Egged
bus cooperative.
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