Topics

All posts organized by subject

The Tzedaka Industry

• The Economics of the Modern Tzedaka Industry

• How Modern Tzedaka Organizations Can Be More Effective

• Adding Transparency to Tzedaka Organizations

• Adjusting Torah

Chinuch

• Is More Torah Always Better?

• Who Should Control Torah Education?

• Are Yeshiva Programs Planned?

• Thinking About What We Teach

• Are We Getting Close to Robot Rabbis?

Jewish Economics

• Making Sense of the Sheitel Industry

• The Mystery of Jewish Economics

• What Does It Really Cost To Be Frum?

• Pre-Pesach Frum Consumer Price Index Update

• Retail Product Pricing and Halacha

• Private Economies and the Public Tax Burden

The Kashrus Industry

• Understanding the Evolution of Kashrus in North America

Jewish Society

• What Can't be Said: social engagement in the Torah world

• Frum Opinions: Analysing the Survey Results

• Should Insurance Companies Run the World?

• Web Search Patterns and Jewish History

• More Jewish Web Search Patterns

• Coercion and Torah

• Does This Insight Perfectly Capture the Contemporary Frum Consumer Spirit?

• Civil Infrastructure and a Torah State

• Measuring Charedim

• Adjusting Strategy for Changing Demographics

• Is Analyzing Jewish Population Numbers Even Permitted?

• Is There a Shidduch Crisis?

• Misheli and Government - Part Three

• The Value of Specialization

Career Education

• How to Plan Your Career Preparation

• Career Prep: Self-Directed Learning

• Are Frum Career Colleges Worth the Cost?

• Frum Career Colleges: Reflections on the Survey Results

Financial Education

• But It'll Be Cheaper if You Pay Cash

• Articulating the Obvious

• How Much Should a Chumra Cost?

Health and Security

• Understanding Digital Privacy

• Is It Possible To Overdo Medical Care?

• Responding to Abuse

• Thinking About Road Safety

Minhagim

• Why Do We Say Selichos

• Selichos Follow Up

• Why Blow 100 Kolos on Rosh Hashana

• The Four Species: waved but never shaken

• Should I Buy a Chazon Ish Isrog?

• How Should We Think About Halacha?

• Visualizing Traditional Yom Tov Davening

History

• Why Did Ramchal Write Mesilas Yesharim

• A History of Torah Observance

• Your Soul Ain't What It Used To Be

• When Is a Proof Not (Really) a Proof?

• Is the Text of Our Torah Scrolls Accurate?

• Lost In Translation: was the Septuagint actually a good thing?

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