{
  "name": "Published pieces",
  "description": "Index of published Ḥeshbon stories and essays, with season, topic and reading time.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2026-09-14",
  "count": 50,
  "stories": [
    {
      "path": "aliyah/index.html",
      "title": "The Aliyah Ledger: fifteen essays, one street",
      "summary": "The whole season on a single page, anchored to one Jerusalem afternoon. Every line item in the series is somewhere in that photograph, and each essay says whether the thing is cheaper or more expensive, and by how much.",
      "category": "The series",
      "kind": "Index",
      "readingTime": "explore",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-ledger.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/index.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/01-housing.html",
      "title": "How much apartment does the same money buy in Israel?",
      "summary": "Israeli listings count rooms rather than bedrooms, and they measure floor area out to the middle of the stairwell. Both sides rebuilt from the official definitions, then drawn at true relative area.",
      "category": "Housing",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-01-housing.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/01-housing.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/02-buying.html",
      "title": "What this apartment actually costs you, before and after you make aliyah",
      "summary": "A price difference gets spread across thirty years of payments. The cash you wire before anyone hands you keys does not, and the floor moves from twenty five percent to fifty depending on whether you have landed.",
      "category": "Housing",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-02-buying.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/02-buying.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/03-cars.html",
      "title": "Why does the same car cost twice as much in Israel?",
      "summary": "The 83 percent everyone quotes turns out to be the wrong number in both directions. One Corolla Hybrid, rebuilt from the dock to the showroom floor, layer by layer.",
      "category": "Goods",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-03-cars.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/03-cars.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/04-what-is-expensive.html",
      "title": "Which bills go up when you move to Israel, and which go down?",
      "summary": "Nineteen categories of household spending, each set against the developed world average and read three years running. Every price that stands out has a licence, a quota or a standard behind it.",
      "category": "Cost of Living",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-04-what-is-expensive.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/04-what-is-expensive.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/05-groceries.html",
      "title": "What does one week of groceries cost in Beit Shemesh, and in Teaneck?",
      "summary": "Israeli law makes every chain publish every price, in every branch, every morning. One morning of those files, priced against a Teaneck grocery on thirty two matched lines.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-05-groceries.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/05-groceries.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/06-food-share.html",
      "title": "Move to Israel, and what share of your money goes to food?",
      "summary": "Both countries run their own household expenditure survey. The gap between them is about five points wide, and an Israeli hour of work buys less at the till.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-06-food-share.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/06-food-share.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/07-kashrut.html",
      "title": "In a country where everything is kosher, who pays for it?",
      "summary": "Israel supervises almost its entire food supply, and two official costings of that system exist. Neither of them sends the bill to the person you would expect.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-07-kashrut.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/07-kashrut.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/08-phones.html",
      "title": "Is Israel expensive because of geography, or because of policy?",
      "summary": "In 2012 Israel opened cellular service to competition and the price of talking to people fell for fourteen years. Everything else stayed the same country with the same borders.",
      "category": "Prices and Policy",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-08-phones.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/08-phones.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/09-health.html",
      "title": "What does a family pay for health care, before and after aliyah?",
      "summary": "The Israeli figure is not a flat percentage of income, it stops at a ceiling, and it takes no account of how many children are in the house. One family of six, itemised on both sides.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-09-health.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/09-health.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/10-children.html",
      "title": "Six children, two systems. Which country actually pays for them?",
      "summary": "One family, six children aged one to fourteen, moved between two systems at sixty thousand dollars a year. Almost none of the difference is child benefit.",
      "category": "Family Economics",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-10-children.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/10-children.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/11-salaries.html",
      "title": "What would you actually earn in Israel, and how would that compare to now?",
      "summary": "Israel publishes several official average wages and they disagree with each other by as much as half. The median drawn from employer filings is the number to plan with.",
      "category": "Earnings",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-11-salaries.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/11-salaries.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/12-tax.html",
      "title": "At what salary does moving to Israel start costing you in tax?",
      "summary": "Israel taxes the average worker more lightly than America does, and the OECD’s own tables show where that stops being true. One salary, put through both codes.",
      "category": "Earnings",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-12-tax.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/12-tax.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/13-currency.html",
      "title": "If you move to Israel, what happens to your money?",
      "summary": "The shekel moved about forty percent in fifteen years, so most published comparisons are measuring the exchange rate rather than the thing they name. One unchanged salary, converted across the whole range.",
      "category": "Earnings",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-13-currency.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/13-currency.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/14-first-year.html",
      "title": "How much cash will your family need to survive the first year in Israel?",
      "summary": "The absorption basket covers six months and income support covers six more. Unemployment insurance asks for a year of Israeli contributions a new arrival does not yet have.",
      "category": "The Move",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-14-first-year.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/14-first-year.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "aliyah/essays/15-retirement.html",
      "title": "If you make aliyah at sixty-five, what does Israel owe you when you retire?",
      "summary": "America holds no totalization agreement with Israel. The cutoff is sixty-two, two years later than almost every guide for olim reports, and the reason usually given for it is wrong.",
      "category": "Family Economics",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s4",
      "seasonName": "Aliyah and Living in Israel",
      "topic": "aliyah",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/aliyah-15-retirement.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/aliyah/essays/15-retirement.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/portable-paycheck.html",
      "title": "If a community is cheaper, does it pay you less?",
      "summary": "Wage data for six professions in every metro in the country. The best-paying market pays about 1.8 times the worst for identical work, and cost of living eats most of the difference.",
      "category": "Earnings",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/portable-paycheck.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/portable-paycheck.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/the-red-push.html",
      "title": "Is the frum world sorting by politics?",
      "summary": "Orthodox families are said to be fleeing blue states for red ones. The community’s own data shows the story is real in exactly one place, and it runs on cost, not politics.",
      "category": "Migration",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/the-red-push.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/the-red-push.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/all-in-cost.html",
      "title": "What does a year of Orthodox family life actually cost?",
      "summary": "One household, four children, priced line by line across the map. Tuition is the largest line on the bill, ahead of the mortgage, and location moves everything.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/all-in-cost.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/all-in-cost.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/affordability-map.html",
      "title": "Two hundred and sixty-nine communities, one map of what each one costs.",
      "summary": "Every community in the database placed on a map and colored by what a household pays to live there, with the full cost profile a click away.",
      "category": "Interactive",
      "kind": "Tool",
      "readingTime": "explore",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/affordability-map.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/affordability-map.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/affordability-comparison.html",
      "title": "Four communities, fourteen measures, side by side.",
      "summary": "A comparison table that puts two to four communities against each other on cost, tax, safety, schools and amenities, recomputed for your household.",
      "category": "Interactive",
      "kind": "Tool",
      "readingTime": "explore",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/affordability-comparison.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/affordability-comparison.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/affordability-scorecard.html",
      "title": "Weight what matters, and the ranking changes.",
      "summary": "Eight factors on sliders. Move them and every community is rescored, with the reasoning behind each rank written out.",
      "category": "Interactive",
      "kind": "Tool",
      "readingTime": "explore",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/affordability-scorecard.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/affordability-scorecard.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/kosher-premium.html",
      "title": "How much of the kosher premium is actually about being kosher?",
      "summary": "Across five cities, the kashrut-driven price gap barely moves. The gap driven by geography and channel swings widely, and that is the part a family can act on.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/kosher-premium.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/kosher-premium.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/shabbat-hospitality.html",
      "title": "What does it cost to set a Shabbos table every week, and to fill it with guests?",
      "summary": "A kosher Shabbat dinner comparable in scope to an American Thanksgiving, priced course by course, and the annual bill for the family that hosts half the year.",
      "category": "Household Costs",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "6 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/shabbat-hospitality.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/shabbat-hospitality.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/safe-city-myth.html",
      "title": "Does the city tell you whether the neighborhood is safe?",
      "summary": "The city is the wrong unit for judging safety. Reputation is close to a coin flip, and the posh enclaves cluster lower than the gritty ones.",
      "category": "Housing and Safety",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/safe-city-myth.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/safe-city-myth.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/eruv-tax.html",
      "title": "What does walking distance to a shul cost?",
      "summary": "The priciest Orthodox communities turn out to be the mature ones; the fastest-growing compete on affordability. What a rising walk-to-shul premium reveals that a high one cannot.",
      "category": "Housing and Safety",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/eruv-tax.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/eruv-tax.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/retirement.html",
      "title": "When the tuition bill ends, where is the best place to grow old?",
      "summary": "A retiree-weighted suitability index across the Orthodox world, an amenity audit, and the South Florida sweep at the top of the table.",
      "category": "Family Economics",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/retirement.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/retirement.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/two-roofs-divorce.html",
      "title": "Where can a divorced Orthodox couple both afford to stay?",
      "summary": "Two households on one income, children still in day school. Forty-one communities ranked on what that arrangement actually requires.",
      "category": "Family Economics",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/two-roofs-divorce.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/two-roofs-divorce.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/marginal-child.html",
      "title": "In a large Orthodox family, which child is the expensive one?",
      "summary": "The marginal cost of the fourth and fifth child, and how each community’s institutions reshape the climb a growing family makes.",
      "category": "Family Economics",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "affordability",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/marginal-child.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/marginal-child.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/frum-family-trail.html",
      "title": "Thirty years of choices, each one priced and compounded.",
      "summary": "A young family’s affordability decisions played as a trail, from the first apartment to the last wedding, with a live net-worth line against the conventional road.",
      "category": "Interactive",
      "kind": "Tool",
      "readingTime": "explore",
      "season": "s2",
      "seasonName": "Household Affordability",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/frum-family-trail.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/frum-family-trail.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/the-quiet-deficit.html",
      "title": "Which Jewish day schools are actually in financial trouble?",
      "summary": "Almost every private school spends more than tuition brings in, which is what fundraising exists to cover. The question is who still runs short once the appeal is in. Comparison schools do in 37% of years and Orthodox day schools in 65%, and those Orthodox schools carry 0.7 months of reserve against a comparison median of 6.4.",
      "category": "Financial Risk",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "3 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "deficit",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/the-quiet-deficit.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/the-quiet-deficit.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/the-74-cent-dollar.html",
      "title": "How much of a posted tuition dollar actually arrives?",
      "summary": "Financial aid, sibling discounts, staff remission, and unpaid balances take the other 26. The median school posts $26,215 and books $18,688, and the gap barely moves across cohorts and years.",
      "category": "Tuition",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "tuition",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/the-74-cent-dollar.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/the-74-cent-dollar.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/the-lean-model.html",
      "title": "How do Orthodox schools run the most expensive kind of school day for a third less money?",
      "summary": "Orthodox day schools collect 33.6 percent less tuition and spend 32.1 percent less per pupil than their non-Orthodox Jewish peers, with no philanthropy gap making up the difference.",
      "category": "Cost and Financing",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "cost",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/the-lean-model.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/the-lean-model.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/dual-curriculum-premium.html",
      "title": "Jewish day schools teach two curricula. Who pays for the second one?",
      "summary": "The second curriculum costs about a fifth more per student, and across 887 schools almost none of that shows up in tuition. Net tuition stays essentially flat. The extra cost lands on fundraising instead.",
      "category": "Cost and Financing",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "5 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "cost",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/dual-curriculum-premium.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/dual-curriculum-premium.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/scale-economies.html",
      "title": "Growth stops saving most schools money at about 150 students. Does it stop saving these?",
      "summary": "For a typical independent school, growing past about 150 students stops lowering the cost per child. Jewish day schools appear to keep saving well beyond that, which turns enrollment growth into a cost strategy available almost nowhere else.",
      "category": "Cost and Scale",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "6 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "scale",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/scale-economies.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/scale-economies.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/tuition-inflation.html",
      "title": "Day school tuition rises about 4% a year. Does it track inflation?",
      "summary": "Over nine years consumer prices swung across 8.4 points while the median school's annual increase moved across only 1.5. Tuition never really tracked inflation. Two large misses in opposite directions happened to cancel out.",
      "category": "Tuition and Inflation",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "3 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "tuition",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/tuition-inflation.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/tuition-inflation.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/endowment-cushion.html",
      "title": "Five schools hold nearly 40% of the endowment. Does that buy their families more aid?",
      "summary": "Five schools hold about 40% of all reported endowment wealth, which looks like the core problem. Their tax filings show tuition aid running at nearly the same level everywhere. What separates schools is whether they have any cushion at all.",
      "category": "Endowment and Aid",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "6 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "endowment",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/endowment-cushion.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/endowment-cushion.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/endowment-generosity.html",
      "title": "Ten schools hold more than half the endowment. Does the aid follow the money?",
      "summary": "Endowment wealth is concentrated in a handful of schools, while tuition assistance is spread evenly across the field. The schools sitting on the least accumulated wealth devote the largest share of their revenue to helping families pay.",
      "category": "Endowment and Aid",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "3 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "endowment",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/endowment-generosity.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/endowment-generosity.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/executive-compensation.html",
      "title": "Revenue at these schools grew about 8% a year. Did executive pay follow?",
      "summary": "Nonprofit pay theory says compensation rises with size and growth, so the fastest-growing schools should pay the most. Orthodox and Chareidi schools grew revenue by roughly 8% a year while executive pay rose about 1%, which is a real cut once inflation is counted.",
      "category": "Leadership Pay",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "3 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "pay",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/executive-compensation.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/executive-compensation.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/head-of-school-pay.html",
      "title": "Boards benchmark head-of-school pay against tuition. Does tuition predict the pay?",
      "summary": "Across 134 identified heads of school, what a school charges predicts almost nothing about what it pays its head. Revenue predicts a great deal, correlating with pay at r = 0.60 against 0.15 for tuition. Boards are anchoring on the number that is easy to look up rather than the one that matters.",
      "category": "Leadership Pay",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "3 min read",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "pay",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/head-of-school-pay.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/head-of-school-pay.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/build-a-school.html",
      "title": "Build your own school. What will your choices cost?",
      "summary": "Twenty-nine choices, each one priced. As you answer, the ledger adds a line, and at the end it shows the cost per child and whether tuition covers it.",
      "category": "Cost Model",
      "kind": "Try it",
      "readingTime": "Interactive",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/build-a-school.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/build-a-school.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/financial-health-report-card.html",
      "title": "School Financial Health Report Card",
      "summary": "86 Jewish day schools. Six pillars, one grade. Move the weights to match what you think matters, and the grades re-sort.",
      "category": "Benchmarking",
      "kind": "Try it",
      "readingTime": "Interactive",
      "season": "s1",
      "seasonName": "Jewish Education",
      "topic": "tool",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/financial-health-report-card.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/financial-health-report-card.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/four-times-giving.html",
      "title": "How much more charity do Jews give?",
      "summary": "At matched income, Jewish-community ZIP codes report roughly four times the charitable contributions of their neighbors. IRS returns, mapped and measured.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/four-times-giving.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/four-times-giving.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/kollel-dividend.html",
      "title": "Does planting a kollel make a community grow?",
      "summary": "Founding-decade census data, event studies with short-run nulls, an enrollment arc that dips before it climbs, and a long-run dividend that clears significance.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/kollel-dividend.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/kollel-dividend.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/kollel-pay-for-itself.html",
      "title": "Does a kollel ever pay for itself?",
      "summary": "The recurring cost of a community kollel from public filings, why the budget scales with the town, and whether growth ever builds a cushion.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/kollel-pay-for-itself.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/kollel-pay-for-itself.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/last-mile.html",
      "title": "How many hands does a charitable dollar pass through before it feeds anyone?",
      "summary": "$100 into a federation, followed through the tax returns of every organization that touched it, until it turns into a meal, a classroom seat or a bed.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "10 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/last-mile.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/last-mile.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/deciding-less.html",
      "title": "When a federation raises less, where does the money go?",
      "summary": "Thirty-three communities whose campaign fell by more than a fifth after inflation. Raising each dollar got dearer, and less of what went out stayed home.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "10 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/deciding-less.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/deciding-less.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/two-envelopes.html",
      "title": "Should an Israel check go to the federation, or straight to the cause?",
      "summary": "One $180 gift, two routes, priced stop by stop from Form 990. Two organizations open the first envelope. Four open the second.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "7 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/two-envelopes.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/two-envelopes.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/price-of-security.html",
      "title": "What does it cost to keep a Jewish building secure?",
      "summary": "Guards, cameras, doors and security staff across 143 communities, priced one building at a time and divided by the people they protect.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "White paper",
      "readingTime": "9 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/price-of-security.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/price-of-security.html"
    },
    {
      "path": "stories/day-school-priority.html",
      "title": "Which Jewish communities prioritize their day schools?",
      "summary": "A decade of federation grant lists for 35 communities, read line by line. Small towns treat the school as the budget; large ones treat it as a line in it.",
      "category": "Communal Giving",
      "kind": "Data story",
      "readingTime": "8 min read",
      "season": "s3",
      "seasonName": "Federation and Charitable Giving",
      "topic": "giving",
      "thumbnail": "https://heshbon.org/thumbs/day-school-priority.webp",
      "url": "https://heshbon.org/stories/day-school-priority.html"
    }
  ]
}