The Jewish People Policy Institute, the forward-looking think tank focused on the Jewish future based in Jerusalem, has released two action-oriented papers dealing with concerns for Jewish continuity in North America. eJewish Philanthropy introduced the articles on its website. Family, Engagement,…

Attitudes towards Ontario’s unfair educational funding policies appear to be changing. And it is not just the families of children in Jewish schools that feel affronted. The Toronto Star reported this week that  “a small grassroots coalition plans to launch…

Two weeks ago, The CJN published a commentary by David Weitzner, an assistant professor of strategy at the Schulich School of Business at York University, in which he urged community leaders to “talk tachlis” about the future of our troubled…

The second of the three Biblical pilgrimage holidays – Shavuot – begins next Tuesday evening. It was on Shavuot, of course, that a rabble of slaves began the never-ending process of being a people governed by law with one time-transcending…

The pattern has been established. And it is devastating. The Board of Directors of Associated Hebrew Schools (AHS) announced this week that it must downsize its northern GTA branch. The extent of student enrollment cannot justify housing the school in…

In the urgent though quite frustrating debate about the future of Jewish Day School education, an argument is occasionally raised that the key factor for declining enrollments is not the cost of tuition, but rather the conclusion by many parents…

Earlier this week, the government of Saskatchewan invoked the rarely used notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to overturn a ruling of the Court of Queen’s Bench that held it was unconstitutional for the Saskatchewan government to…

The government of Ontario delivered its new budget statement this week announcing its plans to spend some $130 billion in fiscal 2017-2018. The two key policy areas the government highlighted with specially boosted spending were health and education. According to…

With the extensive Pesach holiday period behind us this year, GAJE is moving forward with initiatives in funding and in public advocacy. The funding committee has held encouraging introductory meetings with federation officials aimed at incorporating reimagined methods for brining…

To replace the actual eating of the paschal lamb that took place on the very first Passover night in Goshen, our Sages over the years devised the Seder. It is the paradigmatic teaching moment. Deliberately so. They wanted to convey…