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ORT Earns
“Let Freedom
Ring Award”
ORT was presented with the
prestigious “Let Freedom Ring
Humanitarian Award” by the
Rainbow PUSH Coalition and
Citizenship Education Fund on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 21,
at the Cobo Center in Detroit.
ORT was recognized, in part,
for its International Cooperation
program, which was created in
1960 to assist newly emerging
and developing nations, and has
since implemented more than 350
projects in 100 countries.
Dr. Conrad Giles of Bloomfield
Hills, World ORT president,
accepted the award. “I humbly
accept this award … on behalf of
the thousands of educators, the
tens of thousands of volunteers and
more than 100,000 donors to our
efforts over the past 139 years of our
existence.
“Our work in the sub-Saharan
continent is central to the meaning
of our very existence. Jewish law,
the Talmud, demands tikkun olam
— that we repair the world. We are
demanded to play a part in it. It was
that mandate that brought Rabbi
Abraham Heschel to that iconic
march in Selma, where he linked
arms with Martin Luther King Jr.
and Ralph Abernathy. We at World
ORT embrace those ideals that
Martin Luther King Jr. made his
great legacy.”
The original Cobo Arena was
where Dr. King first used his
“I Have a Dream” theme when
speaking to the Freedom Rally in
June 1963. ■
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Dr. Conrad Giles, president of World
ORT, displays the “Let Freedom Ring
Humanitarian Award.”
P R E S E N T S
3
JCC’s Opening the Doors
Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month Programs
“A Taste of ReelAbilities” with Lenore Marwil Detroit Film Festival
GREAT
MOVIES
Jewish Disability Awareness
and Inclusion Month (JDAIM)
“Powerful Medicine:
Simply Magic”
Movie and Magic with
Kevin Spencer
Followed by Q&A and Dessert
Sunday
February 10, 2019
1:00 PM
A Taste of ReelAbilities
Film Festival
In collaboration with the JCC’S
Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish
Film Festival
“Including Samuel” &
“Mr. Connolly Has ALS”
Directed by Dan Habib
(Dan will provide introductions
and talk back)
Sunday, May 19, 2019
1:00 pm
Register at jccdet.org/jdaim or
call 248.432.5543
Autism Alliance of Michigan
JARC
JVS
Kadima
Little Timbers Tutoring
Positive Behavior Supports
Corporation
Tamarack Camps
The Therapy Spot
Peggy & Dennis
Frank
Ina Kirstein
Lindamood-Bell
Learning Processes
A special thanks
to all of our
partners.
Mary Must
Madelon Seligman
z”l
&
Lou Seligman
Anita Naftaly
Family Circle Fund
The Center for Autism and
Developmental Disabilities
Henry Ford Department of Pediatrics
All movies at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts