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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
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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 
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& 
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