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What Jewish sleepaway camp costs

2026-10-05T00:00:00Z

A day at Jewish overnight camp runs about $100 to $440. From 680 sessions at 93 camps and 39 tax returns, what actually sets the price.

Why Jewish day camp costs twice as much

2026-10-05T00:00:00Z

A week at a JCC or Ramah day camp costs about $663 against $321 nearby. Across 115 camps in 17 metro areas, being Jewish adds only $15 to $30 of the gap.

What a day of Jewish summer camp costs

2026-10-05T00:00:00Z

A hundred and six Jewish overnight camps on one map, sized and shaded by what a day costs, with a receipt for each camp and the same session a decade ago.

Does an Israeli degree cost a fraction

2026-09-25T00:00:00Z

Seventeen Israeli institutions ranked on what a year would cost your family and on whether American money can legally reach them.

Best grad school cities for observant Jews

2026-09-25T00:00:00Z

Forty-eight university cities and twenty-four graduate programs scored on shul distance, rent, community size, preschools, kosher food and the program.

What school costs in Israel against America

2026-09-25T00:00:00Z

A Modern Orthodox American family pays $10,333 a child after aid. An Israeli state school may charge $993 for a twelfth grader, for the whole year.

How ultra-Orthodox yeshivas are funded

2026-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fifteen ultra-Orthodox yeshivas in New York and New Jersey, read through their own reports, where two government grants add up to most of the budget.

What a gap year in Israel costs

2026-09-24T00:00:00Z

About $36,000 for the average Orthodox program that prints its tuition, before the flight. Only sixteen of eighty-five print this year's price.

What college actually costs a Jewish family

2026-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every college posts a price and almost no one pays it. Seventeen campuses with an OU-JLIC couple, opened one clue at a time, down to your own income.

Campus Bracket: colleges for Jewish students

2026-09-24T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and forty-six colleges on one map. Eight questions about cost, distance, size and Jewish life move every circle to a Final Four.

What Jewish giving builds in your town

2026-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every Jewish organization on the IRS rolls as one city of 20,370 buildings. Give a ZIP code and a stage of life and the city becomes your own town.

Where your Jewish federation's money goes

2026-09-22T00:00:00Z

Find your local federation on the system map, then read its own tax returns: what it took in, where the grants went, and how it compares to its peers.

The City of Jewish Giving: 20,370 charities

2026-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every Jewish organization registered with the IRS drawn as a building in one city. Height is what it spends, and only the 4,480 that file are lit.

Where big Jewish foundations send money

2026-09-20T00:00:00Z

Three filings from fifty of the largest Jewish family foundations and all 25,199 grants inside them. Two in three traceable dollars leave Jewish causes.

What federation money buys after the grant

2026-09-20T00:00:00Z

Four advocacy organizations took $189m from the federation system over eleven years. Between 52 and 57 cents of each dollar they spend becomes salary.

The Day School Ledger: school finance

2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Eleven stories on how Jewish day schools are paid for, walked through a floor plan, from the tuition collected at reception to the pay decided upstairs.

The Giving Ledger: where Jewish charity goes

2026-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ten stories on Jewish charitable giving, opening on your own town, then a map of your federation and of every Jewish organization on the IRS rolls.

The Household Ledger: what Orthodox life costs

2026-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ten essays on the cost of an Orthodox household, walked through one house at dusk. Every essay prices something in the picture.

Rank Jewish communities by what you value

2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

Eight factors on sliders. Move them and all 269 communities are rescored, with the reasoning behind each rank written out.

Map of what 269 Jewish communities cost

2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

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.

Compare Jewish communities side by side

2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

Put two to four communities against each other on cost, tax, safety, schools and amenities, all recomputed for your own household.

Federation or direct: one Israel gift, two routes

2026-09-06T00:00:00Z

One $180 gift to Israel, two routes, priced stop by stop from Form 990. Two organizations open the first envelope and four open the second.

What Jewish building security costs

2026-09-06T00:00:00Z

Guards, cameras, doors and security staff across 143 communities, priced one building at a time and divided by the people they protect.

How many hands a charitable dollar passes

2026-09-06T00:00:00Z

$100 into a federation, followed through the tax returns of every organization that touched it, until it becomes a meal, a classroom seat or a bed.

When a federation raises less, who loses

2026-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three communities whose campaign fell by more than a fifth after inflation. Raising each dollar got dearer, and less of it stayed home.

Which communities fund their day schools

2026-09-06T00:00:00Z

A decade of federation grant lists for 35 communities, read line by line. Small towns treat the school as the budget, large ones as a line in it.

Where a divorced Orthodox couple can afford

2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Two households on one income with children still in day school. Forty-one communities ranked on what that arrangement actually requires.

Does day school tuition track inflation

2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Over nine years consumer prices swung across 8.4 points while the median school's increase moved across 1.5. Two large misses happened to cancel out.

Is the Orthodox world moving to red states

2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Orthodox families are said to be fleeing blue states for red. The community's own data shows it is real in one place, and it runs on cost, not politics.

Which Jewish day schools are in trouble

2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Comparison schools run a deficit in 37% of years and Orthodox day schools in 65%, holding 0.7 months of reserve against a comparison median of 6.4.