Gary Rosenblatt, was the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York for more than a quarter of a century, until 2019. Before he accepted the dual position in New York, Rosenblatt had edited and entirely revised for…

We direct readers’ attention, once again, to the insights of Adam Hummel, a GTA lawyer and human rights activist. Last month he addressed a gathering at a Toronto synagogue in which he propagated seven duties to guide the community’s next…

In September 2021, Cardus, a non-partisan, faith-based think tank, published a study of the potential cost to the Government of Ontario of funding Ontario’s independent schools. (Funding all Students: A Comparative Economic Analysis of the Fiscal Cost to Support Students…

It is on many minds this year that celebrating Purim with its customary joy and child-orientated jest, will be somewhat difficult. The events of October 7 were too horrific. In defence of their right to live sovereign, in their ancestral…

A date has been set for Ontario’s appeal of the 46-page decision by Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou that denied the province’s request to dismiss GAJE’s application seeking fairness in educational funding before it has actually been argued on its merits. The…

Earlier this week, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt delivered the 2024 State of Hate address at the “Never Is Now” Conference in New York. In just over 31 fiery, unapologetic minutes, Greenblatt chronicled the difficult truth of life for Jews in,…

This week’s update brings the same message as that of last week: deeply rooted Jewish education helps Jewish youth withstand and even push back through the maelstrom of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred on campus. This week, however, the message emanates…

Anyone who tries to help bring Jewish education to Jewish children is actually helping to try to secure a Jewish future. This is a “large” proposition and has the ring of overstatement. But it is true at every level of…

In the ongoing, continuing-to-be-appalling aftermath of October 7, Israeli media carried a small news item last week concerning the country’s women’s national basketball team playing an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 2025 EuroBasket qualifiers’ game. No Canadian media outlets appeared to report…

Four months after Hamas’ ghoulish celebration of its barbaric slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis and other nationals, Israel is still at war. Israelis and Jews around the world have witnessed the battlefield expand from the rock, sand, alleyways and dense…