For more than 65 years, ORT Netherlands has been supporting educational projects for children on an international scale.
Maimonides Jewish Community School in Amsterdam affiliated with ORT in 2019, the same year it was ranked as northern Holland’s number one school.
ORT Netherlands’ fundraising initiatives have supported major programs, including the Future Leaders Program, the ORT school in Sofia, and the installation of smart classrooms in Israel and Ukraine.
After the Second World War, ORT Netherlands provided training for refugees from Eastern Europe and Dutch survivors, including many hundreds of orphans and Jewish children with learning difficulties. The number of students grew quickly across the Netherlands and ORT organized courses in woodwork, bookbinding, and clothes cutting and sewing. For most of these early students, the Netherlands represented a short stop on their way to other destinations – mostly in Israel.
From 1948, with the increase in emigration to Israel, the number of ORT students in the country started to decline.
From the mid-1980s until the early-1990s, ORT briefly supported teacher training programs in robotics, establishing a high-tech robotics laboratory at the Technology Institute of Eindhoven and translating some of ORT’s learning materials for use within Dutch schools.
Singapore
Sir Manasseh Meyer International School (SMMIS) is a child-centered private school that offers a rigorous international education rooted in Jewish values, tradition, and culture.
Bulgaria
ORT No. 134 “Dimcho Debelianov” Jewish school is the result of a successful collaboration between ORT, the Bulgarian authorities and The Ronald S Lauder Foundation (from 2003 to 2019).
Panama
The Colegio Isaac Rabin in Panama City is a Jewish school with more than 300 students, from preschool through to high school age.