The New Year brings new hope and new resolve. Always and everywhere. So too at GAJE. Having assessed information and conclusions from countless conversations, discussions, research and studies, the Funding Committee is now working on bringing forward previously untried methods…

With the last GAJE update of 2017, we wish to draw the Government of Ontario’s attention to the attitudes of Canadians toward government funding of independent religious schools. According to a recent study conducted by the think tank Cardus and…

It is no exaggeration to write that the lives of most of the members of the Jewish community of the GTA in one way or another have been enhanced by the magnanimity and goodness of the late Honey and Barry…

What success can we claim when Jewish education in our community becomes truly affordable, if that education is not itself excellent? Thankfully, in the GTA, Jewish education is indeed excellent within the still available wide offerings throughout the day school…

Some two and a half years ago, our volunteer, grassroots organization (GAJE) was formed out of a deeply held conviction that it was finally time to solve the crisis of increasingly unaffordable day school tuitions. As much as the group…

Recent correspondence to The Canadian Jewish News (Nov. 23, 2017) in response to an opinion column by Mordechai Ben-Dat, one of GAJE’s founding members, suggests that the principles by which conducts itself and the purposes for which GAJE stands need…

Ontario politicians and editorial writers have contended for years that public funding for independent schools, including Jewish day schools, would harm the public schools. They say that parents would withdraw their children from public education and “fragment” the system. Is…

More than two months into the school year, despite the ongoing hardship wrought to many families by punishingly high tuition fees, it is important to acknowledge that, by and large, children in all the grades of all the schools across…

In a recent posting on eJewish Philanthropy, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, CEO of Mechon Hadar, urged philanthropic and lay leaders to ask themselves “what are the financial decisions we, as a Jewish community, are making now that will have significant consequences…