Two nights ago, Jews around the world lit the first candle on the Chanukah menorah. In four nights, Jews around the world will greet the new calendar year 2025. Many themes of Jewish life converge during these days with themes…

Robert Lichtman, a Jewish community activist in New Jersey wrote an edgy, and some will say, even provocative article this week in which he maintains that “Jewish day schools are the infrastructure that supports a full range of communal services”.…

Many readers may have already read the essay by Canadian journalist Terry Glavin that was published in The Free Press only two days ago. It is a powerful, comprehensive chronicle about the extent to which antisemitism has encroached into and…

GAJE has reported upon the increasing enrolment this year throughout the day school system in our community. No analysis has been released linking this increase in enrollment to the wide-spread perception that some public schools are inhospitable – sometimes even…

Last week, GAJE reported the observation by Melissa Rivkin, the director of day school strategy at the Seattle-based Samis Foundation that “strong Jewish day school education provides youngsters with a foundation that gives them the wherewithal – knowledge, identity, and…

GAJE was formed for the sole purpose of trying to help make Jewish day school education more affordable for the majority of young Jewish families in Ontario. Though not the only way of fostering comprehensive Jewish literacy, life-long identity, and…

A strong case can be made for the proposition that the four most important words of modern Jewish history are: “We have not yet lost our hope.” (“Od loh avdah tikvateinu.”) Those words are not merely a roadside instruction for…

The Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Now in its second year, the campaign against Israel and Jews continues on the streets and public spaces of Canada. But Jews and increasingly, non-Jewish champions of civil, democratic society…

The Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy is a relatively new, Calgary-based, think tank. According to its website, the Foundation “aims to renew a civil, common-sense approach to public discourse and public policy in Canada.”  On October 5, Mark Milke, the…

At its openly visible core, the fight against antisemitism, here and abroad, is a fight to protect and preserve civil, law-abiding society. Antisemitism – hatred of Jews – does not and cannot co-exist with decency and respect for human rights.…