e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Surprising Insights Into the Modern Orthodox Community

Date

January 15, 2026

Time

Thursday 12:00 PM 1:00 PM Eastern

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Surprising Insights Into the Modern Orthodox Community

Rabbi Mark Trencher

Rabbi Mark Trencher founded Nishma Research in 2015 and has since conducted 24 broad surveys of the Orthodox community. To date, more than 52,000 responses have been collected across over 800 questions examining beliefs, practices, attitudes, behaviors, and much more.

Nishma’s recent research has explored topics such as why Orthodox Jews get divorced, factors that contribute to successful marriages, how Orthodox Jews view climate change, shifts in attitudes following October 7, how our community is doing in areas of middot (interpersonal behavior toward fellow Jews and others), critical issues the community needs to address, and personal health concerns of greatest significance within the Orthodox world.

Join us for an informative and thought-provoking conversation, with ample time for questions and discussion.

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Society, Community, Family

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Surprising Insights Into the Modern Orthodox Community

Rabbi Mark Trencher

Meet the speaker

Rabbi Mark Trencher

Mark Trencher is the founder and director of Nishma Research, the most prominent independent non-profit market research and polling practice in the U.S. Orthodox Jewish world, and host of the Orthonomics podcast. Nishma Research has conducted 23 broad Jewish communal studies and 28 organizational studies since 2015. The primary focus of the communal research is to explore the broad range of issues in the Orthodox community that have not previously been adequately examined. He looks to the community to identify…

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