In three months, at Pesach, we will have completed nine years since the founding of GAJE. Our mission was then, and remains, to help make Jewish education in our community affordable for every family that wishes to send its children…

Looking back…. On August 21, Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rejected the attempt by the Government of Ontario to throw out of court GAJE’s application to compel Ontario to introduce fairness in the province’s educational…

Last month in Ottawa, Cardus senior fellow Deani Van Pelt delivered a public lecture on trends in education in Canada in 2023 in which she also reflected on the leading edge of change in education today. An adapted version of…

The blood-lusting fury of October 7 and its aftermath have turned our world upside down. False parades as true. Murder as resistance. Face-covering cowards as principled protesters. As the immoral accuse the moral. Last week, the United States vetoed a…

Exactly six years ago this week, the late Rabbi Lord Sacks participated in a debate in the British House of Lords on the role of education in building a flourishing society. (GAJE reported on Rabbi Sacks’ debate remarks after he…

Last week we reminded readers that GAJE awaits a ruling from the Divisional Court on a motion by Ontario seeking permission to appeal the 46-page decision of Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou that allowed GAJE’s case to proceed through the courts to…

As all of us know, neither war, tragedy nor travesty arrests the rise and fall of the sun. And so, we must still keep our eyes on the legal process which GAJE has launched against the Government of Ontario, even…

Since Hamas’ onslaught of October 7 and the alarming, unsettling, enraging reaction by so many individuals and institutions at home and abroad, to Israel’s fighting back against the genocidal perpetrators, most of us have sought “navigational guidance” from selected commentators…

Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2003, the following editorial entitled, From the past, a warning, appeared in The CJN. That it is as relevant today as it was then, is piercingly sad. ••• “Jewish history is such that there…

The State of Israel is fighting against foes who seek its annihilation. Anyone who characterizes the October 7 war as one of resistance to the “occupation” is, of course, lying. Israel did not occupy Gaza on October 7, nor has…