Copying for the sake of Jewish education
Too often, especially in the field of Jewish education, we’re hesitant to look at others’ ideas and borrow. We adopt a stance that our needs are idiosyncratic, making others’ approaches irrelevant to our community’s experience, writes Daniel Held
We have the ability but do we have the will?
While subsidies are available, much of our community’s future is at risk, as the current model of day school funding is clearly broken
More charges laid against Schacter
Stephen Joseph Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, has been charged with more sexual offences.
Zareinu to move into Leo Baeck’s Thornhill classrooms
Zareinu, which is geared to children with physical and developmental challenges, will be housed in the north campus of Leo Baeck Day School on Atkinson Avenue in the Bathurst and Centre streets area of Thornhill
Official: police visit to Montreal chassidic school about protection only
The appearance of youth protection workers, accompanied by police, at a chassidic educational institution on June 1 was not connected to any investigation by the Quebec education ministry, an official says
In Toronto first, Reform and Conservative shuls partner in new school
It’s the end of an era for Holy Blossom Temple’s high school, which is closing this month, but the start of a novel venture that will see it open a supplemental high school with its Conservative neighbours, a first for Toronto
Camps need to develop partnerships
Synagogue partnerships with camps – even when they lie within the same denominational movement – are weaker and less intentional than they should be, writes Daniel Held
Tuition cap offered in day school pilot program
The program is geared to families with household incomes from $150,000 to $300,000, and will cap tuition somewhere between 13 per cent and 14 per cent of their incomes
New Herzliah school a go with $15-million Azrieli Foundation donation
The Azrieli Foundation is donating $15 million toward the construction of a new home for Herzliah High School on the Montreal Jewish Community Campus
Supplementary Jewish education shows growth
The number of kids attending supplementary education schools has grown rapidly over the past four years, says UJA Federation
