In his quasi-autobiographical work, Encounters with the Jewish People, the late British scholar and author, Chaim Raphael, described Jewish kinship as “a living force” that fostered in him “many special vantage points” that he “was impelled to explore.” Succinctly, he…

Glenn A. Drew, a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina has written an important article, entitled The Delusion of Affordability, in which he eloquently pleads for more involvement by the…

Since GAJE formed some two years ago, we have constantly pointed to the patent unfairness of the educational funding policies of the Government of Ontario. In 1996, the Supreme Court of Canada decreed those policies to be legal. But no…

Dr. Sarah Levy, Director of Jewish Life and Learning for Denver Jewish Day School in Denver, published an article this week on eJewishphilanthropy.com entitled “Asking the Tough Questions: A Challenge to Jewish Day Schools”. The author encourages school leaders, staff and…

Ever since 1996, the Government of Ontario has used the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Adler v. Ontario) as a pillar to prop up its unfair, discriminatory educational funding policy and to hide behind, away from the moral spotlight. Some…

GAJE noted last month in a weekly update that public disaffection appears to be increasing over Ontario’s unfair educational funding policies. Our observation was in response to a story in The Toronto Star that a grassroots coalition plans to challenge in…

Rabbi Jay Kelman, one of the core GAJE founders and one of the early proponents of applying insurance instruments to help reimagine the funding of Jewish education in our community, has offered a new set of innovative ideas to Jewish…

The end of the school year compels us to say “thank you” to the men and women into whose care – for the near holy purpose of educating and inculcating information, knowledge and values – we entrust our children. Those…

Yasher Ko’ach to our schools and to our community! By all accounts, this week’s Raise Toronto–Rise up for Jewish Education 24-hour fundraising campaign for GTA Jewish day schools was a huge success. The campaign raised over $1,900,000, nearly double its goal…

Rise up Toronto–Rise up for Jewish Education is the unprecedented combined fundraising effort of 14 Toronto day schools on June 20, 2017. Each school is conducting a telethon to contact donors. For just 24 hours, from 12 PM June 20th…