Andres Spokoiny, the president and CEO of Jewish Funders Network, is an insightful, creative thinker. He embraces broad ideas and looks thoughtfully to the horizons of Jewish life to anticipate coming storms and to sound the sheltering clarion. In the…

Three weeks ago, in his Dvar Torah for parshat Emor, Rabbi Jarrod Grover of Congregation Beth Tikvah spoke on the subject of rethinking public education. His presentation was substantive and timely and worthy of sharing with GAJE supporters and followers.…

In November of 2022, Cardus – the public policy think tank – published a research paper entitled Naturally Diverse: The Landscape of Independent Schools in Ontario. The study provides current, detailed information on Ontario’s independent schools. GAJE brought this important…

Last week, we drew readers’ attention to an essay entitled The Case for Free Jewish Day School, published in early April in Tablet magazine. Its author, Mark Oppenheimer, a senior editor at Tablet and the host of the podcast, Unorthodox,…

Last month, Tablet magazine published an essay entitled The Case for Free Jewish Day School.It was written by Mark Oppenheimer, a senior editor at Tablet and the host of the podcast,Unorthodox.The piece is compelling for a number of reasons. It…

Readers of this weekly update know that Ontario Superior Court Justice Eugenia Papageorgiou reserved her judgment last week on the motion brought by the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada to strike GAJE’s application for fairness in funding education in…

In a hearing yesterday, April 20, before Ontario Superior Court Justice Eugenia Papageorgiou that lasted an entire day, the Attorneys General for Ontario and for Canada argued that GAJE’s application for fairness and equality in educational funding should be thrown…

Next week, on April 20, GAJE’s lawyers will be in court responding to a motion brought by the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada that seeks to strike our application for fair educational funding. The governments are trying to have…

In last week’s update we reminded readers of the seminal study released by Cardus in 2021 that carefully calibrated the cost to Ontario of actually providing some level of funding for the benefit of the children in the province’s independent…

The Ontario government delivered its budget for the coming year and forecast expenditures of $204.7B. Of that amount the Ministry of Education estimates it will spend around $35 B. The treasurer also announced new initiatives for building more schools and…