(This update is dedicated to the memory of Michael Mostyn. He was, truly, a young Lion of Judah, a guardian and champion of Jews – at home and abroad – all of his adult life. He fought from the ramparts…

A story appeared last month that slipped under the radar. It deserves to be “flown” above the radar. It described an initiative by the Israeli government to help strengthen Jewish education in the U.S. The project is the first intervention…

More than anything, GAJE’s chief purpose, is to do our utmost to help bring about a secure, fulfilling, meaningful future for our children as Jews. For it is our belief that it is as Jews, that our children will live…

For its own remarkably rewarding, deeply dignifying and exponentially expansive sake… For the sake of anchoring Jewish self-identity and a sense of Jewish “peoplehood… For the sake of the ancestors who preceded us and of the progeny who will follow…

The aggressive, still mostly unchecked, public and private anti-Jewish manifestations in our society since “October 7” have knocked a large gap in the comfortable spaces that we once mindlessly yet happily inhabited. As GAJE has written in this space and…

In this update, the first of 2025, we review the course of our cause to date and restate its first principles. Ontario funds the education, through to the end of high school, of the children of only one denominational community…

Two nights ago, Jews around the world lit the first candle on the Chanukah menorah. In four nights, Jews around the world will greet the new calendar year 2025. Many themes of Jewish life converge during these days with themes…

Robert Lichtman, a Jewish community activist in New Jersey wrote an edgy, and some will say, even provocative article this week in which he maintains that “Jewish day schools are the infrastructure that supports a full range of communal services”.…

Many readers may have already read the essay by Canadian journalist Terry Glavin that was published in The Free Press only two days ago. It is a powerful, comprehensive chronicle about the extent to which antisemitism has encroached into and…

GAJE has reported upon the increasing enrolment this year throughout the day school system in our community. No analysis has been released linking this increase in enrollment to the wide-spread perception that some public schools are inhospitable – sometimes even…