World Jewish Congress names Robert Singer to top post

Published on January 28, 2013

Robert Singer was named secretary general of the World Jewish Congress, the organization's most senior professional position.

Training for a trade

Published on December 12, 2012

For the first time in his life, Reuven Zulauf is making lists — the type of lists that can never truly be completely checked off.

World ORT meets in Berlin, site of its founding

Published on May 30, 2011

For the first time since World War II, World ORT has gathered its leadership at the site of its former world headquarters in Berlin.

World ORT, ORT Israel can share ORT name, Israeli high court rules

Published on February 2, 2011

World ORT and ORT Israel both can use the ORT name for fundraising purposes, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. A three-judge high court panel decided Monday that the two Jewish vocational school systems can use the name in Israel and abroad. Its ruling settles a long-standing dispute between the systems that featured years of appeals.

$50 million initiative aiming to better poor Israeli schools

Published on January 19, 2011

The Israel Sci-Tech Schools Network and Israel’s Education Ministry have launched a $50 million campaign to improve 50 schools on Israel’s periphery. The Sci-Tech Network, formerly known as ORT Israel, includes more than 180 schools that focus on technological training and high-tech curricula. The Education Ministry will match dollar for dollar up to $25 million to bring 50 schools in Israel’s poorest regions into the network, the group announced Tuesday night at a dinner honoring philanthropist Edith Everett. The schools will be equipped with new curricula, tools, infrastructures and technologies to provide students living in these economically lagging areas with marketable science and technology backgrounds and credentials critical to their own futures and that of Israel.