Nearly $1,000,000 in contributions to the 1956 United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York campaign were announced tonight by 650 guests at a dinner sponsored by the American ORT Federation and tendered to-General Sessions Judge Jonah J. Goldstein in honor of his seventieth birthday. The ORT is a beneficiary of the UJA campaign and the principal agency providing vocational training to Jews overseas.
Dr. William Haber, president of the American ORT Federation, addressing the audience, described the 392 trade schools and other vocational program that ORT maintains in Europe. Israel and North Africa as “part of the UJA effort to help people to help them selves.” He said that “ORT is deeply committed in the critical North African area to the economic rehabilitation of these under-developed communities, and is doing a Point Four job there of technical assistance as well as education. We are also preparing those who plan to emigrate in trades they can use in Israel, while in Israel 5,000 Israelis a year are taught trades and skills in the ORT schools.”
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