Parents provide positive feedback: Report on focus groups GAJE recently conducted three focus groups over a short period involving twenty families of parents of school-aged children. The purpose of the focus groups was to raise and discuss potential funding alternatives…

Affordability is a community-wide concern GAJE’s efforts are aimed with laser-like focus on helping make Jewish education affordable for every family that seeks it for its children. Many components contribute to the very high cost of tuition. They must all…

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) recently convened its second GTA Assembly in which it consulted with various community agencies, organizations and institutions. GAJE asked Madi Murariu, Associate Director, Ontario Government Relations and Public Affairs, to report upon…

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) Task Force on Affordable Jewish Education convened a conference call of its members last Friday. GAJE asked Noah Shack, CIJA Director of Policy, to provide an update of the task force’s progress.…

Our cause – in meaningful variation – is joined in Detroit Earlier this month, Steve Freedman, the Head of Hillel Day School in Detroit urged his community leaders to make the beginning years of day school education free. In an…

The single most effective response that all the challenges beg From time to time, articles appear that attempt to scan the Jewish horizon. One such article, “The challenges facing American Jewry”, appeared last week in the Jerusalem Post. It seeded…

Revisiting a novel, large idea Some five years ago, Avigdor Lieberman, then Israel’s Foreign Minister, told The CJN that what Israel needs most from Diaspora Jewry is to raise Jews. By that, he meant that Diaspora Jewry must consider its…

Relevant but not affordable Launched in 2007 Jewish communal activists, eJewish Philanthropy attempts to assist communal organizations and professionals “adapt to the continuing changes and challenges of the 21st Century.” It is an independent, on-line publisher, indeed a global bulletin…

Because Jewish education teaches “a worldview ahead of its time” An openly raw, self-doubting, yet self-affirming article about sending one’s children to Jewish day school appears on the website of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (jewishideas.org). Due to…

Rejoice!!! Ethan Schwartz, a biblical scholar at Harvard University, notes the following meaningful observation about the upcoming holiday – Simchat Torah. “The Torah reading for Simchat Torah (literally, “rejoicing of Torah”) includes, appropriately enough, one of the Torah’s most famous…