Other communities rising on behalf of affordable Jewish Education GAJE is dedicated to reimagining the funding of our schools. We are a catalyst for keeping the subject of school affordability on the community agenda. And we are a catalyst for…

Ensuring that our ‘tents’ are spiritually alive GAJE has occasionally referred to the insights of Rabbi Marc Angel the head of New York-based Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals in this column. We do so again this week. Rabbi Angel…

We must find new ways. The future depends on it. On the blog site that he created, Jewish Connectivity, Rabbi Arnold Samlan, the Executive Director of the Orloff Central Agency for Jewish Education of Broward County in Florida, urged Jews…

“Study them with love, for they will be your links to life” The death last Shabbat of Elie Wiesel was a severe blow to all. He died after a long illness in his 88th year. His life came, sadly, to…

We do not see ourselves as grasshoppers This week’s Torah portion, Shelach, holds an especially strong message for us. When the twelve scouts whom Moshe had sent ahead to the land of Canaan returned to the camp, the majority gave…

This is a very sweet time of year for most of our children. The end of this week marks the end of the school year for most children attending Jewish schools. At whatever stage in their school careers and to…

Tuition Cap Pilot Project Launched We wish to draw GAJE members’ attention to an important announcement made this week by the UJA Federation’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education. The centre has introduced a pilot program for the 2016-17 school year…

On Saturday night, seven weeks will have elapsed from the holiday of Pesach. That means, of course, the arrival and celebration of the festival of Shavuot. Assembled at the foot of Mount Sinai, the Children of Israel – an undisciplined,…

In February of 1996 – 20 years and four months ago – the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto published the report of its Commission on Jewish Education. The commission had been struck some four years earlier in March 1992. It…

The Funding Committee is working on a set of newly imagined funding proposals. It is hoped that the target date for presenting them to the public will be in the early autumn. ••• In his column this month in The…