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Fiscal Responsibility

Rabbi Jay Kelman

What is it about leaders that so many of them seem to be embroiled in ethical controversy? We in Ontario have a gas-plant scandal that won’t go away, as new revelations come forward. Even sadder than the original waste of more than $1 billion…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Day School Tuition Is In the News, with the Canadian Jewish News Reporting on Two Recent Initiatives

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Once again, the issue of day school tuition is in the news. The Leo Baeck Day School (North Campus) has announced plans for grants up to $5,000 per child, if the family commits to at least three years there. Most appropriately, they have defined…
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Election Fever

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Once again we are in the midst of election fever. The upcoming (recently past when this is read) US election is one with two distinct visions for America and one in which Israel has become a major issue. Soon thereafter Israelis will head to the…
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Tax Evasion

Rabbi Jay Kelman

No one likes to pay taxes. Yet taxes are the lifeblood of our society, paying for our security, health, public education and the thousands of other services we all benefit from. While we can endlessly argue about what is fair, there is very little…
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Dead Foundation Money

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney recently called on Canadian corporations to start spending the over 500 billion dollars of cash, “dead money” as he called it, sitting on their balance sheets. “Their job is to put money to work…
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Going Out of Business

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In the past few months three long time Jewish establishments, who combined have served the community for close to 150 years have closed down. The rapid changes in the economy have made it increasingly difficult for the “mom and pop shops” in this…
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A Jewish Education

Rabbi Jay Kelman

No article I have written has received the response that my recent article, in which I demonstrated how tuition fees can substantially and easily be reduced—without any new money being needed to be raised, nor with any funds for other charities…
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