Education

Embark on a journey of Jewish learning and discovery, exploring the depth of our Education resources, where tagged items including audio, programs, and podcast episodes await your exploration.

The Tuition Crisis: Leaving a Lasting Legacy

Rabbi Jay Kelman

  Most Canadians in turning 71 get a monetary windfall as they begin to cash in the savings that have accumulated in their RRSP. Having had this money accumulate tax-free for forty or fifty years, and despite knowing that at some point tax…
Article
Nov 26, 2015

The 5% Tuition Solution

Rabbi Jay Kelman

  With the busy Yom Tov season, I would not be surprised if many missed what is potentially the most significant Jewish news story of the year. I am referring to the announcement that four Jewish day schools in New Jersey will be capping…
Article
Oct 21, 2015

A Family Cap

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Summer is the time for vacation, especially for students who look forward to such activities as camp, sleep, travel, and plain old fun. School is the furthest thing from their minds. But their parents don’t enjoy a similar luxury. They…
Article
Jul 2, 2015

New Paths for Ba'alei Teshuva, Part 3

Dr. Elliott Malamet

On one level, one could not help but be impressed by the intensity and earnestness at Aish Hatorah, circa 1983, of young people devoting themselves to the mission of revitalizing their own spiritual lives and attempting to persuade others to do the…
Article
Jan 14, 2015

New Paths for Ba'alei Teshuva, Part 2

Dr. Elliott Malamet

In early 1982, I began to study something called "The 48 Ways of Wisdom" one night a week. This was a series of classes based on the last chapter of Pirkei Avot, Ethics of Our Fathers, at a home study group organized by…
Article
Jan 13, 2015

May G-d Comfort...

Rabbi Jay Kelman

For most of the world, the year 1492 marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America. Yet for Jews, the year 1492 is a year of tragedy, a date in Jewish history etched in infamy. It marked the end of perhaps the greatest…
Article
Jul 2, 2014

The Four Questions of Jewish Education

Rabbi Jay Kelman

I write these words just days before Pesach, the holiday that, more than any other, focuses on children. We are mandated to ensure that every child—the wise and the wicked, the simple and the ignoramus—be given an education, each…
Article
Apr 13, 2014

The Long Road: Children On and Off the Derech

Dr. Ruby Wolbromsky, Leah Malamet, Rabbi Jeremy Stavisky and 1 more

Recent studies have indicated that a significant number of children raised in dati homes eventually leave the path of religious observance. Some estimates range from fifteen to twenty percent per year of the students in the religious high…
Audio
Feb 4, 2014

Pushing the Door on Tuition Wide Open

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Between the time of my writing my last article on making Jewish high school free and its appearance in the paper, I was thrilled to see the announcement that Robbins Hebrew Academy (RHA), UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Avi Chai Foundation…
Article
Dec 15, 2013

Let's Make Jewish High School Free

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The recently released Pew report on American Jewry has generated anguished discussion on the future of American Jewry. Some of its key findings include an intermarriage rate of 58%, a percentage that rises to 71% if the Orthodox are excluded (in…
Article
Nov 27, 2013