20 Friday, October 5, 1919 • • • • • • • • • • • • • Auto and Homeowners Insurance MARK S. LIPSITZ 573-0774 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS TEL AVIV (ZINS) - The Building Contractors Asso- ciation in Israel says the cost of housing rose 130-150 percent in Israel in 1978. NEW YORK - The newly issued ORT Year- book reports an enormous leap of enrollment in ORT programs around the world. The single major feature of ORT during the decade of the '70s was achieving a peak of 100,000 youth and adults in its training and educational facilities ear- lier this year. Released by Sidney E. Leiwant, president of the American ORT Federation, the 1979 ORT Yearbook de- scribes this growth as "no mere phenomenon of the year under review, but in reality the ongoing trend that has characterized ORT in recent years. A projection . FIRESTONE • JEWELRY 0Metropolitan Wholesale Diamonds & Jewelry Remounting Jewelry & Watch Repairing Property and Liability Ins. Co., Warwick., R.I. A Subsidiary of Metropolitan Life SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile (3131 557.1860 • • • • ORT Reports Rise in Worldwide Programs Soaring -Costs • • • • • • • • • moo . 30%15% off WINDOW COVERINGS ths zcl,ct trgrkcda IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ENERGY CONSERVATION - WE HAVE JUST THE COVERING FOR YOU. (GOVERNMENT APPROVED) HURTIG INTERIORS \559-8209 559-8209 OUR REPUTATION IS OUR RECOMMENDATION ONCE 11152 . , cs3ra. +3%.0 bca.oics of rising demand for ORT services of all kinds and in many parts of the Jewish world, documents the con- tinuing growth of ORT in the next period." In an introduction to the 559-82091 study, Leiwant calls atten- tion to a historic milestone. "On April 10, 1979, the organization created by a founding document issued in St. Petersburg on that same date in 1880, entered its Centennial Year. How ORT fared over the course of 10 decades, and how it man- aged to survive to achieve its current position as a force that is firmly rooted in Jewish communal realities, will be the business of the ORT Centennial Congress which will assemble in Jerusalem in May 1980." The yearbook focuses on the developments of 1978 - ORT's 98th year. It records that 1070 oaszeollsara.c.aat ill all ORT programs in 24 countries was 97,776. This com- pares with 84,000 the year before, or a rise of 14,000 trainees in a single year. Israel reported an in- crease of 12,000. In the perspective of what has been happening in ORT expansion during the '70s, the yearbook finds that ORT enrollment has added 40,000 persons to its annual roster, an increase of more GOOD SELECTION 1979 PONTIACS AND G.M.C. TRUCKS than 70 percent. Among the enrollments which have increased, the yearbook reports: Soviet Jews served in the Rome area numbered 6,000 in 1978; ORT schools in France, whose youth popu- lation is 85 percent of Jewish North African ori- gin, totalled 7,761, an all- time record. However, largest propor- tionate increases have oc- curred in Latin American communities. New pro- grams and others that have been vastly enlarged and updated include the open- ing of an ORT computer center as part of the huge orvr c.ckaa.-,pic.2E in au.61105 Aires serving the half- million Jews of Argentina; a similar development in Rio de Janiero; and establish- ment of ORT programs in community day schools in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Ven- ezuela. In a separate section focusing on Israel, the yearbook states that last year, the ORT program, "extending to every corner of the Israel map, ENROLLMENT BY TYPES OF PROGRAMS AL STEINBERG Trainees Total Enrollment COUNTRY' Argentina ART MORAN PONTIAC 118 Brazil 748 41 Chile 1,036,- 91 (Cleaned & Reversed) - 103 415 - 1,036 - - - - 139 - - - 1,274 31 France 7,761 301 144 3,483 3,302 44 296 11 270 - 577 25 8 1,209 72 18 1,048 13 2,357 373 40,160 23,451 80 50 595 67,7511' 6,872 :. Morocco 907 35 15 Paraguay 62 I 1 - - U.S.A. Venezuela 459 16 1 1,224 71 19 645 19 1,005 6 11 148 932 - - - 4,139 4,701 1,576 - 64 170 497 176 - 62 - - 459 - 391 833 - - - 645 - - . - - 1,005 - -- I (Cleaned, Recovered or Relined) BLANKETS (Professionally Laundered) We Remove & Install Switzerland Central Institute TOTAL 173 9 4 120 53 97,776 3,320 710 50,481 33,240 891-1818 VISA' - - 8,808 3 5,247 Soviet Jewish Refusnik Israel Zalmanson Due at Hillel House for Talk on Tuesday Israel Zalmanson, a former Soviet prisoner of conscience, will speak in Detroit as part of his U.S. tour 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Hillel House, 14400 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park. Zalmanson's talk is spon- sored by the Detroit Com- mittee for Soviet Jewry and Eshet Jailed Suburban Call Collect Learn to remember numbers Eight Nine One Eighteen Eighteen 4,520 230 ,21 Uruguay PILLOWS, new ticking & feathers or down added DRAPERY CLEANERS 33 76 - Apprentice Programs 1,351 1,305 Peru • DRAPERIES • BEDSPREADS • LAMPSHADES WINDOW SHADES In Community Schools Ethiopia Italy Drapery cleaning when properly done is an art, we at CUSTOM DRAPERY CLEANERS practice most diligently, in our never ending quest to improve our service to you by seeking better systems and methods. Don't take good drapery cleaning for granted. We at CUSTOM DRAPERY CLEANERS make -good cleaning happen. (Cleaned or Laundered) 13 Adult Services 1 Israel DRAPERY CLEANING 2 Vocational and Technical Schools 2 Iran We Take The Worry Out Of Training Units 139 India 353-9000 Teaching Staff 5,904 Colombia JUST NORTH OF TEL-TWELVE MALL ef The ORT Program Today AT BIG SAVINGS 29300 TELEGRAPH consisted of 95 distinct educational schools and facilities. The number of people enrolled, from ages 13 to 60 and over,. was 67,750, compared to 44,205 a decade ago. This represents an advance of 53 percent, or the equiv- alent of having con- structed 20 new, fully- equipped and large scale vocational and technical high schools." 11V, The yearbook cite Joseph Harmatz, director o _ ORT Israel, in explaining this upsurge. "A marked shift in national values as to what- is considered good for the children in school has taken place. ci,anky ORT education has helped- raise vocational and techni- cal schooling in the eyes of the people of Israel, in the national outlook," is the finding of the yearbook study. (In Detroit, ORT's 100th anniiersary - and the 80th birthday of world ORT leader Dr. William Haber will be marked at a com- munal tribute affair 6 p.m. Oct. 15 at Cong. Shaarey Zedek.) JERUSALEM (JTA) - Lt. Gideon Eshet was jailed for 14 days last week for re- fusing to serve in the occu- pied areas "for political rea- sons" in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, military sources said." the Hillel Foundation on the Wayne State University campus. Zalmanson served eight years in Soviet labor camps at Potma, Perm and in the notorious Vladimir Prison. Jailed as a result of the Leningrad trials- of 1970, Zalmanson is seeking a release of friends Yosef Mendelovich, a religious Jew, and two Christians, Yuri Federov and Eleksei Murzhenko, the remain- ing prisoners from the trials. His family, former dissi- dents brother Wulf, sister Sylva and brother-in-law Edward Kuznetsov are liv- ing in Israel. Still in the USSR are his father, Joseph, and twin brother, Shmuel, who has served three years of a 10-year sen- tence. He was jailed on a charge of "economic crimes." Jewish Adult Ed NEW YORK - The Theodor Herzl Institute of the World Zionist Organiza- tion, providing adult educa- tion classes in New York, has begun its 24th school year with 69 instructors. It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Aesop