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Let CIJA know!

If Jewish education collapses, so too ultimately will communal Jewish life. Some weeks ago, CIJA engaged in a series of online community consultations seeking a consensus listing of the top advocacy priorities for CIJA. Apparently the individuals who responded to

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Education has always been our absolute priority!

In his commentary two weeks ago on the Torah portion Bo, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks made a statement that encapsulates the significance of the work of every teacher and every educator who ever attempted over the many years of our history

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The challenge of finding creative ways to address affordability

To solve the problem of unaffordable Jewish education it is incumbent upon the community to think of approaches that reach outside the “usual” way of doings, that are new, that have not yet been tried here, that are more revolutionary

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A Barometer of the Jewish Community’s Viability

We draw our followers’ attention to two items that appeared in The Canadian Jewish News this week (Feb. 2, 2017). They can be read in tandem. Indeed perhaps they should be read in tandem for together they describe a perfect

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Weekly Update: January 27, 2017 — 29 Tevet 5777

We are reluctant to refer two weeks in a row to insights from the same source. But inasmuch as those insights are relevant to GAJE’s work, we make an exception this week. Thus we again direct members to an idea

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Weekly Update: January 20, 2017 — 22 Tevet 5777

True strength through nurtured inner life. Rabbi Marc D. Angel, the founder and head of the New York-based Institute of Jewish Ideas and Ideals offers reflections on the rather florid description in this week’s parsha, Shemot, of how the Israelites

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Weekly Update: January 13, 2017 — 15 Tevet 5777

Day School education a proven secret In a wide-ranging exchange of worry and resolve last April in Mosaic Magazine with Daniel Gordis, Martin Kramer and Jack Wertheimer concerning the future of the American Jewish community, former American diplomat Eliott Abrams

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Weekly Update: January 6, 2017 — 8 Tevet 5777

Warning ahead: Take note! The annual Limmud Conference in Toronto will take place on March 19. As it did last year, GAJE plans to participate in the conference this year as well. An interesting – if provocative though not necessarily

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Weekly Update: December 30, 2016 — 30 Kislev 5777

Looking back. Looking forward. As calendar 2016 draws to its close, we must truthfully admit that we cannot yet point to the progress for which we had hoped at this stage in our efforts to make Jewish education more affordable.

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Weekly Update: December 23, 2016 — 23 Kislev 5777

Parents provide positive feedback: Report on focus groups GAJE recently conducted three focus groups over a short period involving twenty families of parents of school-aged children. The purpose of the focus groups was to raise and discuss potential funding alternatives

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