Last week, we reported the direct, forthright messages from scholars and writers Haviv Rettig Gur and Prof. Coleman Hughes to campus-aged youngsters and their parents on how to confront the “social contagion” of brute antisemitism at universities and colleges today.…

It has always been true that “there is strength in numbers”. The phrase is used so often that it has become a cliché. Except as it pertains to the Jewish people. We have simply never had the numbers. Indeed, our…

Jews, as well as law-respecting and democracy-cherishing individuals throughout the western world were not surprised by the fact of the anti-Israel-pro-Hamas demonstrations on October 8, 2023. We were, however, surprised and increasingly appalled at the nature of those demonstrations, how…

As readers of this weekly update know, the Court of Appeal, in February, decided that GAJE’s case did not warrant proceeding in court to a full hearing on its merits. The Court agreed with the Government of Ontario that the…

In the mid-1970’s Jews in North America, across all generations, were vibrant, alive, seemingly electric with activism, purpose and conviction on behalf of the permanence and security of Jewish life wherever situate. Jews around the world shuddered with fear in…

The Jewish Education Project (JEP), based in New York, is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Jewish education in every realm of the reach and purpose of education. The organization has a long history. It began over a century ago…

It’s for the children. The Torah meticulously records the miraculous overturning of Nature and then – even before our ancient forebears began what turned out to be their 40-year march to the Promised Land – it instructs soon-to-be-freed slaves to…

Mitchell Consky, the CJN’s education reporter, wrote a highly telling article documenting a rebounding interest, since the enrollment nadir wrought by Covid, in Jewish Sunday school education. Consky gathers UJA data that shows part-time Jewish education, though moderately attended, has…

Last week in this space, we wrote about the increasingly bold, dangerous encroachment of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias into the educational system of Ontario. The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) recently decided to hire Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), a…

The nature and the extent of the intimidating, anti-Jewish atmosphere in Ontario’s public schools have been studied and well chronicled by experts. The most recent report on the subject was released last summer by Deborah Lyons, then Special Envoy on…