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It’s because we want our connection to this people to live on

Rabbi Avraham Infeld is an award-winning, highly acclaimed, innovative, inspiring teacher. He was born in South Africa, moved to Israel as a teenager, and now lives in Jerusalem. Some four decades ago, he established Melitz, a non-profit educational institution that

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What about a system also rooted in justice?

At a town hall meeting earlier this week in Thunder Bay, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne fielded a question about the two school boards in the area advertising against each other for students. The premier correctly decried the wastage of public

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Seek government funding for a portion of general studies

When GAJE was formed nearly three years ago, we were among the first concerned individuals to attempt to focus community discussion on the utter lack of affordability of the cost of Jewish education. Today that discussion has been joined from

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An educational master makes the case for day school

It appears beyond doubt that more affordable day school tuition leads to more enrolment in the schools (see last week’s update). Now it is imperative for community leaders, teachers, students, parents, grandparents, education enthusiasts and everyone else who recognize the

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The theory is proven: Lower tuition actually brings in more students!

In the marginally quieter days of the December holiday period, some members of our community may have missed an important news item that appeared in Dec. 20 edition of The Canadian Jewish News. Under the headline TanenbaumCHAT Day School sees

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Looking for Zebuluns

The New Year brings new hope and new resolve. Always and everywhere. So too at GAJE. Having assessed information and conclusions from countless conversations, discussions, research and studies, the Funding Committee is now working on bringing forward previously untried methods

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Perhaps Ontario could catch up to the majority?

With the last GAJE update of 2017, we wish to draw the Government of Ontario’s attention to the attitudes of Canadians toward government funding of independent religious schools. According to a recent study conducted by the think tank Cardus and

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Their memories will always be for blessing

It is no exaggeration to write that the lives of most of the members of the Jewish community of the GTA in one way or another have been enhanced by the magnanimity and goodness of the late Honey and Barry

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‘The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build today’

Chanukah candles

These are the days of briefest light in the northern hemisphere. The candles of Chanukah are therefore a welcome illumination during the darkness of the holiday’s eight days. An additional illumination with the power to shine permanent light on a

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For Jewish education to succeed…

What success can we claim when Jewish education in our community becomes truly affordable, if that education is not itself excellent? Thankfully, in the GTA, Jewish education is indeed excellent within the still available wide offerings throughout the day school

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