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
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Kespa a National Nonprofit that works for inclusion in lgbt in the Jewish Community. Welcome. I know the Jewish Community federation and the National Nonprofit have been working on the issue of how to Pay Attention to awareness and inclusion issues with lgbt and choose jews for decades now. We started a program last summer late last summer, called, lgbt pathways to leadership. It is a Leadership Development program that was a year and a half in its development. And launched in november technically with 12 members. That was in the initial cohort. The program was designed to bring folks in that lgbt q world to the table. That proverbial decisionmaking table. And the idea really behind that was that we, as an inclusive engaged community wanted to make sure we have representation from all of our Jewish Community including the lgbt q community. The program will run about nine months. The idea is to give people leadership skills give the participants leadership skills in order to have them r
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