The festival of Shavuot begins on Sunday night. Like all our holidays, it has its own ethno/culinary flare. But it is, truly, about more than cheesecake and blintzes. It is and has always been about Jewish education. It is only…

According to an article that appeared in The CJN last week, Jewish students comprise three and a half percent of the population at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), with 8,359 Jewish students enrolled out of a student population of…

Many readers of this weekly update are familiar with Dan Senor, the American scholar, author and host of the podcast, Call Me Back. It originated after “October 7” and has developed into what, arguably, is one of the most important…

Last week in this space, we reported that renowned Israeli scholar and author, Yossi Klein Halevi, counseled a large gathering in Toronto that however vulnerable we feel as a result of the events and the aftermath of “October 7”, Jews…

Earlier this week in Toronto, renowned Israeli scholar, teacher, thinker, author, Yossi Klein Halevi, was in Toronto at the invitation of the Toronto Holocaust Museum to share his thoughts on the difficult subject of “how to navigate the post-Holocaust era.”…

It makes sense that the festival of Pesach falls in the month of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish calendar. Which month could be more substantively appropriate, other than the first, to celebrate liberation from slavery leading to the…

Helping families “raise Jews” through Jewish education is one of the chief priorities of our organized Jewish community. Helping the community try to ensure that such education is truly affordable is GAJE’s chief priority and has been, since the volunteer…

If Moses lived around 1,400 BC, more than 135 generations of Jews since then, have told and re-told the story of the Exodus from Egypt. To be sure, it wasn’t until some 1,600 years after he lived, that the method…

GAJE has noted that there has been an observable rise in enrollment this year in Jewish day schools in the GTA. In a news report published in The CJN last month, Mitchell Consky filled in the picture more robustly. “Jewish…

We wish it were otherwise, but we have awoken each day to the same reality for the past 17 months. Civil and Jewish society leaders were taken by surprise by the hateful aftermath of “October 7”. While anti-Israel polemicists plotted…