Comparisons do not always work. This is obviously so if one compares dissimilar items such as apples to oranges, or dissimilar situations, such as the day school system in Greater Toronto with that of the system in northern New Jersey.…

Earlier this week, the Board of Directors of Associated Hebrew Schools announced it would consolidate its educational structure from its current three-campus network into two campuses. Beginning with the 2019/20 school year, the Kamin branch (on Atkinson Avenue in Thornhill)…

GAJE is attempting to help make Jewish education in the GTA affordable. To be embraced by families that education must be affordable and held in high esteem – seen to be important for its own sake as the one of…

The imperative to make Jewish education more affordable requires us to reimagine the funding of the overall system. It also requires us to reimagine the delivery of education. Education can and must be delivered efficiently and responsibly, in a manner…

Kol Habirah, a Jewish newspaper serving the Greater Washington and Baltimore Jewish communities, has published the third and final instalment of the series by Gabe Aaronson examining the crisis of the high cost of Jewish day school education. Part 1…

A member of the community, responding to GAJE’s recent call for the government of Ontario to ameliorate its unfair funding policy in relation to children with learning disabilities, sent GAJE a reminder this week of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s…

Our children return to school next week. Given the momentous announcements during the past academic year of the closures of certain day schools, we must ask whether in the imminent years to come there will remain a Day School system…

Earlier this month, Gabe Aaronson wrote an article about the high cost of day school tuitions in Kol HaBirah: Voice of the Capital, a bi-weekly print and online publication serving the Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia Jewish community. Although restricting…