ORT France operates in seven locations, including Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse, and Marseille.
It aims to offer students an enriching and practical education and is committed to integrating innovative methods and interactive projects to prepare its students for the challenges of the professional world. This approach is reflected in a number of high-profile educational events organized within ORT France’s establishments.
In recent years, ORT France has extended its educational provision beyond high school and provides tertiary-level degree and diploma courses in fields including dentistry, engineering, business management, optometry, fashion, and entrepreneurship. It also maintains a successful research and development hub.
ORT began operating in France in 1921. It worked with local Jewish organisations to implement vocational training courses and to find employment for newly-arrived German refugees. ORT stayed in France during the Second World War and maintained facilities in 20 French cities.
ORT France expanded from the mid-1950s and throughout the 1960s and 1970s to offer vocational and academic education to Jewish immigrants from North Africa.
From the 1980s, ORT France’s curriculum and courses underwent fundamental changes and provided advanced science and technology courses, and university preparation programs.
Mexico
Colegio Olamí ORT was founded in 2022 from the merger of two leading schools within Mexico’s Jewish educational network: Colegio CIM-ORT and Colegio Hebreo Sefaradí, together contributing more than 180 years of educational excellence.
Cuba
ORT Cuba previously hosted a range of programs benefiting the country’s Jewish and non-Jewish citizens.
Belgium
Belgian ORT was established in 1946 primarily to educate Jewish children who had returned from the camps so that they could enter regular schools.