Dear Minister Calandra: We congratulate and commend you on your appointment this week as Ontario’s new Minister of Education. The ministry has been entrusted to your stewardship because you understand the utmost importance of its mission in protecting, enhancing and…

It would be too blatant, and even too inexcusable, an omission, were this update not to refer to the holiday of Purim which, this year, we actually celebrate today, March 14. As with all Jews who yearn and strive for…

Last Friday, our legal team advised GAJE that our application before the Court of Appeal was successful. The endorsement on the Court’s file was succinct: “The motion for leave to appeal is granted.” As is usual in such applications for…

As of this writing, Ontarians are voting for a new government. When this Update is read by GAJE supporters, the results of the voting will be known. Premier Ford premised his call of the election on the basis of needing…

There are moments when the clock should stop – as if in sympathy with the skipping of one’s heartbeat – so significant are they in assessing What is Man? Yesterday was such a moment. For the State of Israel, for…

Paul Bernstein, CEO of Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools, whom we quoted in last week’s update, has written a thoughtful article – Having the courage to meet our moment  – in which he reflected upon the ubiquity of manifestations…

(This update is dedicated to the memory of Michael Mostyn. He was, truly, a young Lion of Judah, a guardian and champion of Jews – at home and abroad – all of his adult life. He fought from the ramparts…

A story appeared last month that slipped under the radar. It deserves to be “flown” above the radar. It described an initiative by the Israeli government to help strengthen Jewish education in the U.S. The project is the first intervention…

More than anything, GAJE’s chief purpose, is to do our utmost to help bring about a secure, fulfilling, meaningful future for our children as Jews. For it is our belief that it is as Jews, that our children will live…

For its own remarkably rewarding, deeply dignifying and exponentially expansive sake… For the sake of anchoring Jewish self-identity and a sense of Jewish “peoplehood… For the sake of the ancestors who preceded us and of the progeny who will follow…