The founder and contributor to the local jaouish news paper called j the weakly jaouish news paper of northern california. Welcome rachel and alex. Thank you. Rachel, lets jump in and ask, what is this thing about food and identity . Yeah. When i teach classes on jewish food and identity i begin by telling students that food might be the most important subject in the world. And it is the thing that we are probably all thinking about all of the time. And, of course, once i mention it, everybody is thinking about it. But it shapes our world. It shapes us physically, and it shapes who we are as individuals and communities as families and nations. Its so interesting, and alex, you think about food and you talk about food and you write about food. And, you have created this new organization. So what is a the organization and what is this thing about food and identity. For me its interesting sns i started this group almost 3 years ago. It is the not so secret society of bay area jaou jewish
Good morning and welcome to mosaic. I am rabbi eric weiss. Across our countrys faith communities are changing and making an intense effort to get to know themselves. What we would like to do is invite you into a conversation this morning about a Jewish Population today that has been concluded in the San Francisco bay area. We would like to introduce you to julie gold. The director of Community Impact at the jewish humidity federation and Endowment Foundation. And the director of Committee Impact at the Jewish Community federation and foundation of the east bay. Welcome. Lets ask what is the Jewish Population study . This is a study about the demographics and so much more of the bay area Jewish Community. There are many things that are exciting about the study but i think the most exciting is the first population study that has ever been done that includes the entire bay area. 10 counties. It looks not just at demographics but more. Like this is your demographics about the population. G
Good morning and welcome to mosaic. I am rabbi eric weiss and i am honored to be your host this morning. We would like to invite you into a serious conversation this morning about Domestic Violence and in particular, Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community. I would like to introduce you to naomi tucker who is the executive director of the. And the Youth Program coordinator. Welcome. Good morning. Lets jump in and talk a little bit about what it is and why is Domestic Violence such an important topic of conversation for us in general in our culture but in particular in our Jewish Community. It started 24 years ago because it was the most robust Domestic Violence movement in the United States we noticed jewish women were not accessing services and in the Jewish Community people were not talking about the issue and really, bought into the myth that the Jewish Community does not suffer from those problems. We knew from Domestic Violence statistics that is not true and one in four women i
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Point. We were created in 1897 by a group of people studying the tora. Really the mission of the agency comes directly from the tora. This group of individual took a look and said look at this, it shows in the tora that gods tell moses not to charge interest basically to his people, and that it is really important not to benefit from another persons troubles. Based on that, they decided to make it reality. And they created it initially called acts of loving kindness and later became known as the hebrew free loan. What they did was each agreed to donate . 25 into a pot each month until they had enough money to make their first loan. The loans are always still 120 years later interest free, primarily to members of the Jewish Community. The loans are paid back over time. We have an amazing repayment rate, still 120 years later. Our repayment rate is 99. 75 . Wow we will talk more about concrete programs and have more people that will talk in a personal way about the way they elevated thei