ORT education and vocational training programs last year served 98,000 people in 24 countries, according to a report by Sidney, Leiwant, American ORT Federation (AOF) president, prepared for presentation at the AOF centennial national conference, which begins tomorrow at the New York Hilton and will continue through Sunday.
Two out of three of the total ORT enrollment, Leiwant indicated, were in the 95 ORT vocational and technical training institutions in Israel in 1979. He predicted the continued expansion of the ORT network in the Jewish State to meet the continuing needs of “the advanced technology sector” of Israel’s expanding economy, and called courses providing such skills “the ORT of the future.”
Sen. Jacob Javits (R. NY) will be the feature speaker at the ORT centennial banquet Saturday evening. Israel’s UN Ambassador, Yehuda Blum, will bring greetings from Israel. Some 750 delegates from all parts of the United States are expected at the conference, which will celebrate the founding of ORT — the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training — in Czarist Russia in 1880. The conclave will also plan American participation in the World ORT Centennial Congress in Jerusalem this summer.
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