Who Is Leaving Yiddishkeit: A Conversation with Dr. Moshe Krakowski

Dr. Moshe Krakowski reports on the findings of the first part of a research project commissioned by the OU to study attrition from Orthodoxy. A professor at the Azrieli graduate school at YU, Dr. Krakowski also studies charedi education, consistent with his own roots. We speak about his own journey, the reasons why the community needs to invest in empirical reseach about the issues that concern us, and the seperate lessons gleaned from the study for Modern Orthodox and charedi parents. How do we keep our kids so attached to Yiddishkeit that they never achieve the "escape velocity" necessary to move away from it?