What happens when a mathematician (who is Israel’s leading statistician and pollster), a veteran journalist/author/editor, and an aspiring data scientist/developer team up to quantify and map the ways in which Jews in Israel practice Judaism? A new, interactive, model for understanding Jewish society in Israel is born.
In this is quick presentation at the 2019 Israel Visualization Conference (ISVIS) Professor Camil Fuchs and Noah Slepkov discuss how the #IsraeliJudaism project evolved from a goal of identifying the main characteristics of Jewish culture in Israel to mapping out a cultural revolution.