Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is widely known for the inspiring insights he pulls from the weekly Torah portion. His commentary on this week’s portion, Shemot, is a striking illustration of how the rabbi’s wisdom can be the jet stream, pulling us…
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Lower tuition means higher enrolment
The recent article in The CJN entitled More Students Applying To Jewish High School in Toronto is an appropriate springboard for diving, fully confident of mission and means, into the New Year and the new decade. The information contained in…
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Faith-based education tends to teach tolerance of others
One of the “throw-away” statements of the Supreme Court in the Adler decision of 1996 was that extending public funding to independent denominational schools would risk tearing the multicultural fabric of our society. Madame Justice Beverley McLachlin made the remark…
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Avi Chai Says Goodbye, But Not ‘Mission Accomplished’
Anyone in the field of formal and informal Jewish education knows of the Avi Chai Foundation. Unique among foundations oriented to Jewish life, Avi Chai, is singularly dedicated to supporting Jewish educational research and programming. It will cease operation at…
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Students with a vibrant Jewish future can help build a better world
GAJE’s mission to try to make Jewish education more affordable is based upon the premise that a Jewish education at its best, the “gold standard” of which is day school, is exceptional as well as essential. Rabbi Jethro Berkman, the…
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Being sensitive to our young families’ hardships
The Tishrei holidays are over. Children have returned to the classrooms; parents to their regular car-pool schedule; grandparents to their hovering roles of aiding and assisting; and teachers to the hard and hopefully rewarding, vital work of teaching, guiding, supporting…
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Seeking ‘equitable access’ for independent schools
An op-ed appeared this week in The Toronto Sun co-written by Deani Van Pelt and David Hunt under the headline “Publicly-educated parents seeking other options for kids”. The writers are co-authors of the study ‘Who Chooses Ontario Independent Schools and…
Tagged with: Cardus, Catholic schools, jewish day school tuition, Jewish education, jewish schools, Ontario ndependent schools, private schools, Toronto Sun
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May the coming school year be excellent for all
School returns next week for most of our children. As we know, the first day – the first week – can be fraught with anxiety and worry for the youngest and the oldest. Even as our children look forward to…
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The Teacher as Hero
This week’s update is effectively a continuation of the insights published week from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ commentary on the Torah portion Matot-Masei. From that portion, Rabbi Sacks taught that “Jews became the people whose heroes were teachers, whose citadels were…
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Education counts the most in the long run
Last week’s update brought readers’ attention to the insights of Rabbi Marc D. Angel, who, in his commentary on the weekly Torah portion, urges us never to succumb to frustration or despair when the task at hand is so very…
Tagged with: Funding Jewish education, GAJE, Jewish education, Jewish education tuition, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education 