The Center for Communal Research is delighted to welcome Aliza Goldstein to our team! Aliza comes to us from Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, where she used her considerable data analysis skills to support yeshiva day school education. We also bid a fond farewell to associate researcher Barak Hagler, who has accepted a position as […]
The CCR is delighted to welcome our newest Principal Researcher, Dr. Rachel Ginsberg! Rachel is an accomplished educator and scholar of education, and our work will benefit tremendously from her qualitative research skills and her deep knowledge of Jewish education.
The Center for Communal Research is looking for passionate individuals to conduct applied research and program evaluation in and for the Orthodox Jewish community. Do you want to work collaboratively with policymakers and practitioners to move the Jewish community toward more evidence-informed practice? Open positions are posted here, and we welcome applications from motivated candidates […]
We are sad to say farewell to our founding director, Matt Williams, who has taken on a new role at the ADL. We wish him all the best moving forward. Michelle Shain, assistant director of the Center since February 2019, has stepped into the role of director. We are looking forward to a productive, reinvigorating […]
We’re delighted to see our COVID-19 Community Portrait Study mentioned in this op-ed by Rabbi Barak Bar-Chaim and Rabbi Abe Unger of the New Synagogue of Palm Beach! In time of pandemic, faith community needed more than ever As the rabbis write, “faith supports resilience.”
Congratulations to our Senior Fellow, Adina Bankier-Karp, on the publication of her report entitled A tale of two communities: Comparing the Pew Research Center’s Jewish Americans in 2020 with the Gen17 Australian Jewish Community Survey! The research was supported by the Australian Jewish Funders. We are grateful to them and to all the Jewish organizations […]
The Orthodox Union’s Center for Communal Research, in collaboration with Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Education, invite applications for a two-year, doctoral or postdoctoral research fellowship to begin September 1, 2020. Research Fellow Job Description Applications must be submitted by July 31, 2020.
What’s the impact of the coronavirus on the health, stability, and religious lives of Orthodox Jews? How do we plan for the road ahead? The Center is embarking on a major study to answer these questions and more.
Congrats to Lior Melnick for winning our photo contest and $1,000! His winning photo, titled: Eishet Chayil, Will I Find?, was chosen for its creativity, quality, originality and responsiveness to the prompt. Thank you again to all of you who entered our competition. Lior Melnick’s winning photo, titled: Eishet Chayil, Will I Find? From left […]
Orthodox Union launches data collection and analysis center It will focus its research on how Jews learn to live Jewish lives, the diverse journeys they take in that process and the ways in which Jewish communal institutions influence behavior and sentiment. BY ELIZABETH KRATZ Matt Williams, director of the OU Center for Communal Research. Credit: Courtesy. […]