When this update is posted today online or arrives in readers’ email inboxes, GAJE’s legal team will be in the Court of Appeal attempting to convince the court to allow GAJE to proceed with our application. Our lawyers, Jillian Siskind…

World Jewish Congress President, Ronald Lauder, this week offered a two-pronged approach to standing up to and responding to the rising tide of antisemitism. He told some 250 attendees of the World Jewish Congress’ annual gala dinner in New York…

Joanna DeJong VanHof, education director with Cardus, a non-partisan, faith-based, think tank with offices in Hamilton and Ottawa, whose expertise and resources GAJE has often relied upon, was recently asked by National Post reporter, Donna Kennedy-Glans, to comment on the…

Eszter Neuman, the chair of the school board of Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles, has written a rhapsodic tribute to successful day school education. “We’ll always have day school” was published this week by eJP. Neuman explores the connection…

It is very satisfying as well as a public service to bring news of increasing enrollments at Jewish schools across the country. Thus, we bring to readers’ attention an article that appeared recently in the Winnipeg Jewish Post and News…

Some three and a half decades ago in the United States, community leaders and elders – usually a reference to men and women mostly in the second half of their lives – felt a need to respond urgently to the…

We would offend conscience as well as our abiding sense of Jewish peoplehood were we not to dedicate this update to last night’s impossible news of the impending release of all of the 48 hostages from Gaza. As of this…

During the summer, GAJE reported in our weekly update, upon a two-day inter-denominational conference in Toronto sponsored by the Simeon Initiative, a partnership of Cardus and CIJA. The conference was convened specifically to discuss the alarming rise of antisemitism in…

Since early in the month, GAJE has called attention to the emotional and other forms of preparation by our children and by the men and women who comprise the widely diverse Jewish educational system for the return to school. We…

This time next week, the Jewish new year 5786, will be 4 days old. Our prayers and aspirations for the new year will still be fresh and hopeful at this time next week. But, they will be expressed in words…