In the ongoing, continuing-to-be-appalling aftermath of October 7, Israeli media carried a small news item last week concerning the country’s women’s national basketball team playing an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 2025 EuroBasket qualifiers’ game. No Canadian media outlets appeared to report…

Four months after Hamas’ ghoulish celebration of its barbaric slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis and other nationals, Israel is still at war. Israelis and Jews around the world have witnessed the battlefield expand from the rock, sand, alleyways and dense…

Last week the Divisional Court allowed the Attorney General’s motion for leave to appeal the 46-page decision of Justice Eugenia Papageorgiou that prevented GAJE’s application for fair educational funding from being thrown out of court.  The Divisional Court attached no…

The manifestations, after October 7, of hatred toward Israel and Jews around the world, but also on the streets of Canada, have unnerved us. But they have not immobilized us. Nor will they ever. They have also provided an illuminating…

Traditionally, when the completion of the reading of the Torah portion on Shabbat marks the end of one of the Five Books of Moses, the congregation chants “Chazak. Chazak. V’nitchazek”. Loosely translated the words mean, “Be strong. Be strong. And…

The beating-heart core of GAJE’s mission is to try to help make Jewish education affordable for those families who seek it for their children. Our advocacy – our very purpose – focuses on affordability. On occasion, however, we have drawn…

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…