It is likely that every Jewish community on earth, directly or indirectly, was the beneficiary of the vast goodness of the late Julia Koschitzky’s heart, of her irrepressible will and of her unequaled ability to help others. Such was her…

The creative, generously philanthropic initiative some four years ago that drastically reduced annual tuition at CHAT proved empirically that enrollment is directly related to tuition. That program became the vanguard for other affordability initiatives by UJA Federation and participating day…

To say we have been living for more than two years in difficult, disquieting times abuses the term “understatement.” The global Covid pandemic, the occupation of downtown Ottawa and a handful of Canadian-American border crossings by a frightful confederacy of…

The surest way to avoid indifference to Jewish life Jack Wertheimer, professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary, published an article this week entitled, Which American Jews are most distant from Israel?,that appeared on the eJP website.…

Last week we reported on news that a group acronymically called O.P.E.N. is suing the Government of Ontario to compel it to defund the Catholic school board within our provincial educational system. In response to the news of the O.P.E.N.…

GAJE is pleased to announce that along with ten individuals, GAJE is the lead applicant in an action that seeks a declaration from the court that the educational funding scheme in Ontario that is discriminatory and that the failure by…

We have already moved past the story of the Exodus from Egypt in the reading of the weekly Torah portions. Of course, daily Jewish life is such that we never move past that story. Indeed, it is the defining centre…

Sholom Eisenstat, co-founder of ADRABA, the Jewish school for online, high school accredited courses, sent GAJE the following text last week dealing with the irreplaceable importance of Jewish education for the youngsters we hope to raise into fine, Jewishly-knowledgeable, caring,…

The full frigid freeze of winter in the GTA fell upon us this past week. Our children have returned to in-school learning. May it be thus everlastingly. And may the day soon dawn in Ontario when independent schools- including Jewish…