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Each
year, the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities allocates
money to needy organizations locally, in Israel and
throughout the world.
For the
second year in a row, one of the organizations receiving
money was the ORT Technology School (grades 7-11) in Kiev,
Ukraine. This was the same school that I had visited in
March 2005 as part of the Small Federation Executive
Institute.
We were
all very impressed with the incredible work being done in
Kiev’s ORT school to revive Judaism after decades of anti-
Semitic repression under Communist rule.
When the school was
asked by the World ORT leaders on the most effective use
of the allocation, school officials/teachers felt that one
of the things that would “stimulate all the students”
would be if they could recognize special achievement of
the students in Jewish studies.
They selected the following students based on last year's
achievements, shown in the above picture from left to
right:
Olga Sokal
- student of 11B class
Mariya Abramova
- student of 10A class
Viktoria Praysman
- student of 11A class
Dmitriy Poroshin
- student of 11A class
Alena Praysman
- student of 11A class
Alexander Osadchuk
– student of 10A class
Also pictured are Leshchiner Slava (in red sweater), the
Director of World ORT Representative office in Ukraine and
Moldova, and Yuriy Kinkov (in tie and jacket),
principal of the ORT
Technological Lyceum (Kiev).
In December 2006, during an all-school Hanukkah
celebration, these students were rewarded with MP3 players
(cash awards cannot be given) and letters of
congratulation from WORLD ORT for their achievements in
Jewish Studies.
We in the Quad Cities
congratulate and applaud the winning students and the
efforts of World ORT in developing world-class schools.
Allan
G. Ross
Executive Director
Jewish
Federation of the Quad Cities
*******More
about World ORT
- In the Ukraine and other countries of the Former Soviet
Union (FSU) as well as the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS), World ORT (www.ort.org)
has been active in the revitalization of these Jewish
communities, principally through a network of schools that
provide leading-edge standards of technology education
within a Jewish learning environment. By offering a better
education, these schools have succeeded in attracting
large numbers of Jewish students who would otherwise not
be associated with the Jewish community. Currently, some
40,000 students throughout the CIS and FSU receive an ORT
education. |
