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"It is … our duty as scientists to promote education, rational thinking and tolerance. We should also encourage our educated youth to become technological entrepreneurs. Those countries that nurture this knowhow will survive future financial and social crises. Let us advance science to create a better world for all."
Professor Dan Shechtman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011, and member of World ORT’s Academic Advisory Council in Israel.

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"I think education is the fundamental component to South Africa being able to become a successful nation. Education should not be based on race, class, gender or ethnicity and ORT has ensured that people from all walks of life are afforded an equal chance for a better tomorrow.”
Johnny Clegg, musician and anthropologist.

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"Throughout the world, ORT schools provide a modern educational environment in which young people learn to appreciate time-honoured general values as well as get connected to Jewish values. The cutting edge technological orientation brought in by ORT positions Jewish schools at a much higher level, thus providing them with an ability to attract the generation who may otherwise remain unaffiliated."
Natan Sharansky

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"I have had occasion before to remark on the fact that ORT's activity does not base itself upon 'charity' but upon self help. Both for the work of rebuilding human lives and the great task of building a new nation in Israel, the acquisition of skills assumes an enormous importance. I want to assure you of my greatest admiration for the cause in which you are so nobly engaged."
Albert Einstein

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"Your vocational training activities … represent a constructive activity on a people-to-people level which deserves approbation … You are engaged in a work of great humanitarian significance. Yours is the type of meaningful program which transmits skills and technical knowledge as an aid to the modernization of communities and to the improvement of living standards. It is thus in consonance with the main currents of our times."
President John F. Kennedy

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"…ORT has provided an education for life to Jews and others in vulnerable communities throughout the world. In so doing, it has exemplified one of Judaism's greatest values. We are the people who predicated our very existence as a people on education, on 'teaching... diligently to our children.' … The civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome have long since disappeared. Judaism still lives and flourishes and survives. ORT is testimony to that truth.”
Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

United States

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US Operations

US ORT Operations is responsible for the administration of Bramson ORT College in New York, Los Angeles ORT College, Zarem Golde ORT Technical Institute in Chicago, and an ORT computer centre located in Detroit. Over the past two decades these institutions have trained more than 100,000 Jewish refugees and immigrants, mostly from the former Soviet Union and Iran. Today, most of the students come from American secondary schools. These ORT colleges continue to introduce special programmes for high school students through which they can complete their general equivalency diploma and associate degrees from the local Jewish community and Yeshivot and the schools combined.

 

Bramson ORT College, New York, offers quality technical post secondary courses to meet the educational and career needs of the New York community. Degree programmes include Accounting, Business Management, Computer Technology, Electronics Technology, Medical Technology and Office Technology. The college continued to expand the range of courses taught using distance learning via the internet.

Los Angeles ORT College offers certificate programmes in ESL (English as a second Language), Computerised Accounting, CAD (Computer Aided Design), and Computer Graphics. A new Associate of Applied Science degree in Business Management was introduced  and structured to attract graduates from the certificates in Computerized Accounting and Administrative Assistant programmes to transfer their credits to this new programme.

Zarem Golde ORT Technical Institute, a branch campus of Los Angeles ORT College, located in Chicago, launched its AAS in Accounting programme as well as its Pharmacy Technician programme in 2007 and enrolment has grown since then. The Medical Assistant Clinical programme cohort was inaugurated in 2008 and work on the Medical Assistant Laboratory was completed.

The ORT e-Learning Centre in Brooklyn, New York, has demonstrated success in the growth of its student population and recognition of the ORT name by Jewish day schools and its student body.

The David B. Hermelin ORT Resource Centre in Detroit provides critical technology skills to under-employed and unemployed workers in south-eastern Michigan. The centre also works with religious schools in the community serving hundreds of children with computer-based lessons, Judaic software and creative pursuits including digital photography and movie making.