The return this week to school by GTA-area children was accompanied by the earnest hopes and deeply felt prayers of their parents that this coming year be a “normal” one. Parental hopes and prayers are but one side of a…

Next week brings two beginnings: Rosh Hashana 5782 and the return to school for most of our children. It will indeed be a meaningful week. At least for a few moments next week we will likely think about the significance…

The editorial in The Canadian Jewish News on November 28, 1996 was a reaction to the Supreme Court’s release of its decision in the Adler case. It is this case, as readers of this weekly update know, that provides the…

It was not the main or even a minor reason for the Supreme Court’s decision some 25 years ago in the famous Adler case. However, Madame Justice McLachlin’s singularly devastating comment has survived in popular legal folklore and outlasted the…

As readers of the GAJE weekly update know, the federal government gave Ontario $763 million, part of a Safe Return to Class Fund, specifically earmarked to protect the health and safety of children in Ontario’s education sector. Queen’s Park however…

One of GAJE’s longstanding supporters brought to our attention the following instruction to the Jews of America from the late Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz. It was a timely missive to GAJE for only recently, on the 17th day of…

The collective, society-wide, national campaign against the Covid pandemic shone an unflattering but illuminating light on Ontario’s relentless discrimination against the families who send their children to independent schools. Without remorse or any public explanation, Queen’s Park refused to distribute…

The impact of the news story felt more like a knife into the heart than a shudder of concern. The JTA last week published the results of a survey of Jewish voters in the United States. The survey was commissioned…

Ontario’s anachronistic, unfair, discriminatory educational funding policies are not only an abiding concern for GAJE and for the parents of children attending Jewish day schools or indeed all independent schools in the province. They have now also caught the wider…

David Matas was featured in an article last week in Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Under the headline, Human Rights Lawyer David Matas Continues to Fight for The Dispossessed, the author of the article, Zena Olijnky, briefly traces Matas’ family history as…