Some two and a half years ago, our volunteer, grassroots organization (GAJE) was formed out of a deeply held conviction that it was finally time to solve the crisis of increasingly unaffordable day school tuitions. As much as the group…

Recent correspondence to The Canadian Jewish News (Nov. 23, 2017) in response to an opinion column by Mordechai Ben-Dat, one of GAJE’s founding members, suggests that the principles by which conducts itself and the purposes for which GAJE stands need…

Ontario politicians and editorial writers have contended for years that public funding for independent schools, including Jewish day schools, would harm the public schools. They say that parents would withdraw their children from public education and “fragment” the system. Is…

More than two months into the school year, despite the ongoing hardship wrought to many families by punishingly high tuition fees, it is important to acknowledge that, by and large, children in all the grades of all the schools across…

In a recent posting on eJewish Philanthropy, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, CEO of Mechon Hadar, urged philanthropic and lay leaders to ask themselves “what are the financial decisions we, as a Jewish community, are making now that will have significant consequences…

Comparisons do not always work. This is obviously so if one compares dissimilar items such as apples to oranges, or dissimilar situations, such as the day school system in Greater Toronto with that of the system in northern New Jersey.…

Earlier this week, the Board of Directors of Associated Hebrew Schools announced it would consolidate its educational structure from its current three-campus network into two campuses. Beginning with the 2019/20 school year, the Kamin branch (on Atkinson Avenue in Thornhill)…

GAJE is attempting to help make Jewish education in the GTA affordable. To be embraced by families that education must be affordable and held in high esteem – seen to be important for its own sake as the one of…

The imperative to make Jewish education more affordable requires us to reimagine the funding of the overall system. It also requires us to reimagine the delivery of education. Education can and must be delivered efficiently and responsibly, in a manner…

Kol Habirah, a Jewish newspaper serving the Greater Washington and Baltimore Jewish communities, has published the third and final instalment of the series by Gabe Aaronson examining the crisis of the high cost of Jewish day school education. Part 1…