Two Argentine rabbis and the ORT School were honored by a prestigious foundation.
The Buenos Aires-based Konex Foundation, a cultural nonprofit organization, cited Rabbi Sergio Bergman, the head of the Judaica Foundation, and Rabbi Daniel Goldman, the director of the Interreligious Dialogue Institute, as remarkable community leaders.
A Catholic and a Muslim leader were similarly recognized at a ceremony Tuesday at the Buenos Aires University Law School.
Among the four educational entities to receive prizes was the 7,000-student ORT Technical School in Buenos Aires.
Some 100 outstanding personalities, institutions and companies were cited by the foundation.
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