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Just What Are You Singing About?
For as long as I can remember the songs accompanying Simchas Torah dancing in yeshivas and kollelim have included:
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Is It Getting Easier To Count American Jews?
I’ve written in the past about the disconnect between the “official” counts of just how many Jews there are and a count based on halachic standards.
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Halacha and War
A powerful video from an Israeli rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Tamir Granot, has recently attracted a lot of attention.
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What's Really Behind Yeshivishe Hats?
I make no secret of my ambivalence towards black hats.
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Understanding Violent Crime
A possible response to recent tragic killings
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Smartphone Rejection and Bad Middos
What expanded smarphone bans might tell us about Jewish communities
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Addressing Alienation in the Torah world
Why our communities' fringes may be wider than we think
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Connecting Jewish Life (and shidduchim) to Real-World Data
How you can help improve the quality of some important demographic data
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Resolving the Shidduch Age Gap Theory Debate
Excellent new data provides a clear and unambiguous conclusion
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Do Mass Gatherings Actually Help?
Can we know whether there's enough value in stacking public protests to justify the investment?
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Tried Getting Your Kids Into a Lakewood School Recently?
When unbalanced markets cause spiraling social problems
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Which Jews Go to War: Torah and Derush
Does every derush have a reasonable explanation?
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