It makes sense that the festival of Pesach falls in the month of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish calendar. Which month could be more substantively appropriate, other than the first, to celebrate liberation from slavery leading to the…

Helping families “raise Jews” through Jewish education is one of the chief priorities of our organized Jewish community. Helping the community try to ensure that such education is truly affordable is GAJE’s chief priority and has been, since the volunteer…

If Moses lived around 1,400 BC, more than 135 generations of Jews since then, have told and re-told the story of the Exodus from Egypt. To be sure, it wasn’t until some 1,600 years after he lived, that the method…

GAJE has noted that there has been an observable rise in enrollment this year in Jewish day schools in the GTA. In a news report published in The CJN last month, Mitchell Consky filled in the picture more robustly. “Jewish…

We wish it were otherwise, but we have awoken each day to the same reality for the past 17 months. Civil and Jewish society leaders were taken by surprise by the hateful aftermath of “October 7”. While anti-Israel polemicists plotted…

Dear Minister Calandra: We congratulate and commend you on your appointment this week as Ontario’s new Minister of Education. The ministry has been entrusted to your stewardship because you understand the utmost importance of its mission in protecting, enhancing and…

It would be too blatant, and even too inexcusable, an omission, were this update not to refer to the holiday of Purim which, this year, we actually celebrate today, March 14. As with all Jews who yearn and strive for…

Last Friday, our legal team advised GAJE that our application before the Court of Appeal was successful. The endorsement on the Court’s file was succinct: “The motion for leave to appeal is granted.” As is usual in such applications for…

As of this writing, Ontarians are voting for a new government. When this Update is read by GAJE supporters, the results of the voting will be known. Premier Ford premised his call of the election on the basis of needing…

There are moments when the clock should stop – as if in sympathy with the skipping of one’s heartbeat – so significant are they in assessing What is Man? Yesterday was such a moment. For the State of Israel, for…