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collaboration among Israel, the Russian government
and Jewish philanthropy is producing high-tech cen-
ters in eight Jewish schools in the former Soviet
Union.
The schools, which accept Jewish and non-Jewish students,
are being equipped with technology centers that will help teach
Jewish studies with computers.
The schools are run by the Russian government; Israel is
providing the Jewish curriculum and teachers.
All eight of the centers, which are being established by the
ORT network with $1.6 million in funding from U.S. philan-
thropists, will be operating within the next year, according to
Gideon Meyer, deputy director general of the World ORT
Union.
The project, called Regeneration 2000, marks a collaboration
between those who wish to contribute to the ongoing Jewish
renaissance in the former Soviet Union and those, particularly
in Israel, who argue that Jews there should be encouraged to
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leave.
"There is no contradiction between helping those Jews who
wish to leave as well as those Jews who see a future in these
countries," said Mark Levin, executive director of NCSJ:
Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic
States & Eurasia.
The schools hope to enroll 10,000 students by the end of
2001, Meyer said.
"They won't come because it's a Jewish school. They come to
a good school because it's a good school," he said.
Some 90 percent of the students in these schools are Jewish,
according to Women's American ORT, the group's American
arm.
ORT currently operates four schools in the former Soviet
Union. The organization, which was founded in Russia in
1880, also works with 22 other Jewish schools there.
The lead philanthropist for the project said the possibility of
revitalizing Jewish life among previously unaffiliated youth in
the former Soviet Union interested him in the project.
"This is a relatively unexplored core of Jewish leadership and
Jewish life," said Milton Gralla, also a member of JTA's board
of directors.
Other philanthropists involved in the project include Rita
and Stanley Kaplan, Ronald Lauder and Harry and Jeanette
Weinberg. ❑
— Peter Ephross, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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— Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., on speculation
that he is among a number of potential candidates to
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Lieberman is an Orthodox Jew.

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