The times weigh heavily upon us. Constant and unabating are our worries for the State of Israel and for our co-religionists wherever their habitations, including here, in our own community. As these words were written, the bloodlusting cries from the…

Earlier this month, Lisa Popik Coll and Gail Norry, board chair and vice chair, respectively, of Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools cast a challenge to the wide Jewish community of North America of high Richter scale magnitude and potential…

GAJE champions Jewish education because Jewish education provides the best odds of raising young Jewish children to become strongly identifying, committed Jews as adults. Thus, GAJE’s singular mission is to try to help such education be truly affordable for young…

Blatant discrimination is entrenched in Ontario’s educational system. For, as we all know, only one religious group in the province receives funding for the education of its children. That this differentiation continues and persists in the year 2024 is an…

Last week in this space, we noted that one of the ways we protect civil, decent democratic society in Ontario/Canada is by protecting and enhancing Jewish community life. That means, of course, we must raise our children to know who…

In three days, we celebrate Canada Day, the 157th anniversary of the establishment of the (then) Dominion of Canada. True north, strong and free. We cherish our country and the bedrock values that anchor the foundation of the freedoms and…

Embedded into the infrastructure of Jewish values is the deep decency of acknowledging the good that others do for you. In Hebrew, this mentschlichkeit is known as hakarat hatov – literally, recognizing the goodness. Few moments are as sweet as…

The appeal by the Government of Ontario of Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou’s refusal last summer to throw out GAJE’s application for fairness in educational funding, was heard earlier this week by a panel of three judges. The court reserved its decision.…

Next week on Tuesday, June 11, the Divisional Court will hear the appeal by the Government of Ontario from the decision last August of Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou refusing to throw out GAJE’s application for fairness in educational funding before it…

The shooting at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School last weekend in Toronto was of a piece with the intimidation, and bullying that has been directed for the last seven months at the Jewish community by haters of Jews and haters…