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Women's American ORT Marks 50th Anniversary in Israel
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK (JTA )—
Women's American ORT
will celebrate 50 years dedi-
cated to providing quality
vocational education along
with a knowledge of Jewish
heritage to Jewish youth
throughout the world when
it holds its 24th biennial con-
vention in Jerusalem Oct.
23-27, the first time this
meeting has been held in
Israel.
Beverly Minkoff, chair-
man of the national execu-
tive committee of Women's
American ORT, traced the
growth of the group from its
founding by five women in
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Brooklyn in 1927 to an
organization of 135,000
members in 1,055 chapters
across the United States. It
is also the largest group
within World ORT.
Mrs. Minkoff noted that
the original founders of the
women's group were the
wives of men who were
members of the American
ORT Federation which was
founded a few years earlier
or had come from Europe
where they had been famil-
iar with the work of ORT
since it began in Russia , in
1890. One of the original
founders, Florence Dolow-
itz, now 88, is honorary
president of the
organization.
Women's American ORE
grew slowly in its first quar-
ter century. By 1950 it had
only 13,000 members in 105
chapters. Mrs. Minkoff said
the growth began because of
the need for ORT sdiools in
post-Holocaust Eirrope and
the new state of Israel and
because Nathan Gould, now
its national executive vice
president and executive
director, joined it and
worked to expand the
organization.
During the post-war
period, Women's American
ORT provided materials for
classes held in DP camps
and sponsored the construc-
tion of the Aron Syng-
alowski Center in Tel Aviv,
which Mrs. Minkoff said
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vocational
revolutionized
education in the Middle
East.
The women's group also
helped as ORT moved in
with vocational aid for Jews
in Morocco and South
America, areas where Jew-
ish organizations had not
gone before, according to
Mrs. Minkoff. She said as
Jews left North Africa the
American group sponsored
projects in France, such as
a school in Lyons.
In Israel, ORT has some
80 different types of schools
including apprenticeship
centers sponsored by*:
Women's American ORT
and the new. Engineering
School at Hebrew
University.
Women's American ORT
recently started a program
with the Israeli Nfinistry of
Iducation and the World
Zionist Organization which
allows American youngsters
to take American 10th and
11th grade cuniculum
courses in Israel while
undergoing a work-study
program which gives them
a chance to get to meet and
know Israeli youths of the
same age.
American
of
One
Women's ORT's proudest
achievements was the open-
ing of the Bramson ORT
Training Center in New
York to train electronic
technicians and other
related fields.
Detroiters Attend ORT Israel Parley
Michigan Region, Women's
American ORT, will send a
delegation to the 24th bien-
nial national ORT conven-
tion to be held Oct. 23-27 in
Jerusalem.'
National board members
from Detroit who will
attend the convention are
Maxine Pomerantz, Bar-
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Sharon Chudnow. Repre-
senting their chapters at the
convention are Ann Burst-
ein, Ruth Rosenfeld, Rosa
Chessler, Shelly Surowitz,
Grace Berlin, Rose Schultz,
Lillian - Colman, Carol
Dreyer, Jennie Robins,
Mildred Moss, Shirley Sil-
verman, Sharon Corlin,
Bobbie Warsh, Sarah Glick-
lin, Bertha Rubin, Shelly
Spaulding, Adele Tapper
and Paulette Borin.
Israeli Rime Minister
Menahem Begin, Israel
President Ephraim Katzir.
Israel Minister of Education
Zevulun Hammer and Israel
Ambassador to the UN
Chaim Herzog, will address
ORI's 50th anniversary
convention.
Major addresses also will
be delivered by Max
Braude, director-general of
the World ORT Union; Ruth
Eisenberg, national presi-
dent of Women's American
ORT; and Nathan Gould,
executive vice president
and national executive
director of Women's Ameri-
can ORT.
A large percentage of
ORT's members are young
women between the ages of
20 and 30, Mrs. Minkoff
said. She said about 20,000
new members join each
year and she believes most
of these are also young
women. She said that most
of them are married, but as
women today are getting
married later ORT has
chapters for singles.
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