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…

Very often in this weekly update, as readers know, GAJE has written forcefully, if not also pleadingly, beseeching the Government of Ontario to end its unfair educational funding policies. We have been critical of Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education…

Last week we wrote: “All Jewish communities, all Jewish life, all Jewish causes (GAJE included) – wherever situated on the planet – must be conscripted at this moment to the cause of fighting for Israel. Israel is us. All of…

All Jewish communities, all Jewish life, all Jewish causes (GAJE included) – wherever situated on the planet – must be conscripted at this moment to the cause of fighting for Israel. Israel is us. All of us. Our past. Our…

This week we reproduce yet another aspect of Judge Papageorgiou’s decision that warrants  reiteration and even emphasis. It is important that our readers and the wider public understand the exhaustive lengths to which Judge Papageorgiou went in order to explore…

This week we reproduce another aspect of Judge Papageorgiou’s decision that warrants reiteration and even emphasis. In her 46-page judgement Judge Papageorgiou concluded that “there is a reasonable chance that the Grassroots Applicants will be able to satisfy the test…

In 46-pages of comprehensive analysis and reasoning, Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou, concluded that “there is a reasonable chance that the Grassroots Applicants will be able to satisfy the test in Bedford and Carter”, i.e., to allow the courts to begin the…

The setting of the sun this evening brings the rising of the New Year 5784. We greet the new year with festivity, celebration. And the new year greets a period of 10 days of personal, deliberative soul-searching and focused reflection…