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…

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…