ORT works in Italy with two Jewish schools: ORT Liceo Renzo Levi, founded in Rome by ORT Italy in partnership with the local Jewish community, and the ORT-affiliated Scuola della Comunita Ebraica in Milan, both of which provide excellence in general and Jewish education.
The schools bring together Jewish students and families from across the cultural and religious spectrum and aim to educate young people to be rooted in their Judaism and form a strong link to Israel.
In both schools, scientific education is at the forefront owing to the presence of innovative ORT computer science classes, science laboratories, and digital classrooms. Alongside the traditional school curriculum, ORT in Italy also helps develop personal creativity, entrepreneurship skills, and the development of global citizenship awareness through international projects with other schools from around the ORT network.
Recent Italian national surveys (Eduscopio) on the quality of schools show that the scientific high schools in Milan and Rome are among the top-ranking institutions year after year.
ORT has previously supported Jewish communities in Venice, Genoa and Florence, and has run schools in Rome, Livorno, Turin, Florence, Venice, Trieste, and Cevoli, as well as a training farm in Cevoli San Marco.
ORT activities in Italy began in 1946, providing vocational training to European displaced persons and refugees following the Second World War.
Peru
Colegio León Pinelo is an affiliated ORT school and the only school serving Lima’s Jewish community. It is ranked among the top schools in Peru.
Brazil
Escola ORT – the ORT school in Rio de Janeiro – is ranked as one of the best institutions in the city, and across all of Brazil.
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.