Two Rabbis, Three Opinions New Episode
This time it really is three opinions. Join us as we host Dr Moshe Krakowski, a pioneer in the empirical study of issues in the Orthodox community. Although usually studying the charedi cohort, he has just completed the first part of a two part study of attrition from Orthodoxy. Listen as we hear how his own background as a serious ben Torah shapes his thinking and conclusions about who is leaving the fold, and why.
P.S. While the IDF is busy crushing Haman, the airport is closed, as you all know. Which means that I am stuck in the US for longer than I had hoped. Which means that I am available for any scholar-in-residence appearance Parshas Korach. At least. Just ‘sayin
Two comments, First, Dr. Krakowski’s educational background from elementary through graduate school as well as his comment of the Talmudic learning of an 8th grader in Hareidi schools, puts an interesting perspective on his views about Haredi education. Second, years back, Prof. Marc Shapiro debunked the absurd, fact-free claims of Rabbi Pruzansky about MO kids attending a secular university. I was happy to hear Prof. Krakowski say something quite similar.
I don’t know what R Pruzansky said, but I suspect it was the line that was subsequently the subject of an entire issue of the OU’s Jewish Action. To wit: that 50% of MO students who attended away-from-home colleges other than YU and Stern dropped Shmiras Shabbos within two years. The actual source of that was a campus kiruv worker in NJ