The recent article in The CJN entitled More Students Applying To Jewish High School in Toronto is an appropriate springboard for diving, fully confident of mission and means, into the New Year and the new decade. The information contained in…
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Lower tuition means higher enrolment
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Faith-based education tends to teach tolerance of others
One of the “throw-away” statements of the Supreme Court in the Adler decision of 1996 was that extending public funding to independent denominational schools would risk tearing the multicultural fabric of our society. Madame Justice Beverley McLachlin made the remark…
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Saying: “Thank you. You mean a great deal to us” to our teachers
Teachers have always been revered and even lionized in Jewish tradition. We have understood from our first days as a people how important teachers are in fulfilling the divine instruction, across every generation, to teach our children the hallowed ways…
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The commitment that is also an inspiring vision
This week, we bring readers’ attention to yet another initiative aimed at making Jewish education more affordable from another jurisdiction in North America. Three weeks ago the Del Mar Times, in California published a story about the progress of the…
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Get involved in community-wide collaborative efforts
From time to time we bring readers’ attention to the efforts in other jurisdictions across North America to secure and perpetuate the future of Jewish education. We do so again this week. The Jewish Link, a newspaper serving parts of…
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Avi Chai Says Goodbye, But Not ‘Mission Accomplished’
Anyone in the field of formal and informal Jewish education knows of the Avi Chai Foundation. Unique among foundations oriented to Jewish life, Avi Chai, is singularly dedicated to supporting Jewish educational research and programming. It will cease operation at…
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Students with a vibrant Jewish future can help build a better world
GAJE’s mission to try to make Jewish education more affordable is based upon the premise that a Jewish education at its best, the “gold standard” of which is day school, is exceptional as well as essential. Rabbi Jethro Berkman, the…
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How other jurisdictions are reducing tuition
The JTA published an article this week, sponsored by and produced in partnership with the Avi Chai Foundation, entitled “Five innovative ways Jewish day schools are reducing tuition costs.” The article was a summary roundup. The five discrete methods that…
It’s time to appeal to the courts
It is our belief that we must do everything we can and pursue every avenue possible to try to bring more children into our schools – for their sake and for the sake of the future of our community. UJA…
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Being sensitive to our young families’ hardships
The Tishrei holidays are over. Children have returned to the classrooms; parents to their regular car-pool schedule; grandparents to their hovering roles of aiding and assisting; and teachers to the hard and hopefully rewarding, vital work of teaching, guiding, supporting…
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Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education 