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good morning and welcome to mosaic. i am rabbi eric weiss. across our country's 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. let's 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. >> generally we are talking about the far east bay, we think of the south bay including silicon valley. and up north throughout sonoma county, napa county. >> and even solano county and san francisco. >> wonderful. what are some of the things that we have learned? >> so much . i would just say a few key takeaways and then we can say so much more about each one. i think one of the most important takeaways from my perspective is that we have highly engaged small core of jewish people who are engaged in jewish community life and community. and they are highly engaged and quite vibrant. the

vast population in the bay area of jewish people are not engaged actively in jewish life and community. >> just rewinding a little bit, i think that whatever communities look at themselves, one of the core questions is, if somebody feels they are part of the community they want to know who is included. how was the study actually done? >> great. the study was done in a very methodologically sound way. we did not work off of who is coming to events and who do all the community agencies and synagogues have on their list. we did a very controlled random, sample. we worked with a polling company called, you gov which is like a gallup poll that help us construct a sound sample. they were over 3000 respondents to the survey. and it is weighted carefully through the statistical analysis. so that

you can deduce and arrive generalized conclusions about such a large area of population. >> fascinating. the last time our san francisco, the bay area jewish community did a study on itself was when? >> two. in 2000 for the san francisco federation did a study that was just a subset of the entire bay area and in 2011, the east bay federation did a study that was just on the east bay area. it has been quite a few years , and this is precedent-setting because it is the entire area. >> we have really taken a holistic approach to the entire bay area jewish community. >> yes. >> when we think about who jews are, i do not everybody would necessarily know this but some of the questions we ask ourselves is , who is a jew? what is jewish status? what were some of the ways in which that was understood ? >> we use the broadest definition of who is jewish.

basically, if you consider yourself jewish or partially jewish in any way by religion or anything, you are in. as part of the screening, that is jewish. not a narrow definition of jewish at all. the broadest definition possible. and we also consider part of the bay area jewish population, people who live with jews. partner were married with jews. we have 350,000 jewish people in the entire bay area. based on the study findings . 473,000 total people in jewish households. >> fascinating. we will take a quick break in a moment but before we go, how does the bay area rank in terms of its actual number of jewish community in the country ? >> the fourth-largest. >> we are after -- >> i think it goes new york -- los angeles. southeast florida

. what? sorry, florida. los angeles and then the bay area. pretty significant. >> we will take a quick break and come back to this conversation in just a moment. i am a huge fan. i love comedy and nobody does that better. than stephen colbert. making fun of cultural moments . making fun of ourselves. >> watch the late news with sara donchey. >> it is done she. rhymes with donkey. not that hard. i set him up but i never know what he will do. >> the late news with sara donchey and the late show with stephen colbert. weeknights at 11:00. download the cbs news app and watch kpix news for free. anytime, anywhere. get breaking news 24/7, as it happens. no sign up, no

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i feel things when people talk about their struggles, about their problems, especially families. i have a kid. when i see parents who are struggling or kids struggling i feel all of those stories. i should not, it is probably not good to take those things home with me but i really do. and i really deeply care about what they are going through. and i think that has to be the most rewarding part of what i do. >> the late news with sara donchey, weeknights at 11:00. welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and honor to be your has this morning. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about a jewish population study the jewish community has conducted in the bay area. i would like to reintroduce you to julie and rabbi, both directors a community impacted two different federations. julie is at the san francisco-based community federation and endowment foundation and the rabbi is at the jewish community federation and foundation of the east bay. welcome back. we were talking

about some of the basics around the jewish population study and i am wondering, what are some of the things we can say of out this particular jewish community , at this point in time? >> there is a lot to say about the jewish community. we use the portrait, really to assess the state of our community. the fitness, the well-being. and to do some commitment making. what we can say, it is extraordinarily diverse. it is stable and we are seeing a lot of movement within the bay area. we have a lot of young jews, who are looking to find ways to connect to community endeavors . >> and do we know , how the population age cuts in terms of age and race and immigration status and that kind of a thing. >> we know a lot. in terms of

the pie, the largest percentage of our population are young adults. in fact, we have the largest young adult population of any jewish community in the united states. even in north america. that is percentage of population, not numbers of people. and the second bubble of our population are baby boomers. >> young adult is probably 18 through -- >> 34. >> baby boomers a late 50s forward. >> exactly. forward to somewhere in their 60s or 70s. >> fantastic. what are some of the other big themes that are emerging from the study itself? >> and he mentioned the diversity . i daresay we have the most diverse jewish population , perhaps in the whole world outside of israel. and you see the increasing beautiful diversity growing. the younger you look at the population. it is about a quarter of households of

racial and ethnic diversity and as you get younger, 18 to 34, it is about 38%. and we can assume that trend will increase. >> i know there is so much being looked at and analyzed in terms of , perhaps, you might think of as the fact of a study but i am wondering what is sort of highlighted about their for help people express their jewishness. we have in the bay area anyway, one of the most diverse communities in the entire world. and if we are also probably , it seems like the most diverse jewish community in the diaspora, what does it say about how a jew of color and lgbtq jew, a single parent, a jewish person who comes as a young person who comes here on their own , and they may come from a different part of the country but they are an immigrant to the bay area, what does all of that ,

do you think, saying about how we might want to be jewish and express our jewishness? >> there is a unique cultural characteristic of the bay area and certainly the jewish community in the bay area. really defined by flexibility. we have this adventurous spirit and i would say like a cultural coarseness. we don't in general experience jewish life in a very particular way but there is an openness to integrating and i would say remixing from other cultures and other universal values , that is really the character and the way in which jewish life is celebrated and expressed in the bay area. >> it seems interesting in a reductionist way, faith communities generally think of the focus of their faith divinity life in their place of worship like a church or a temple or a synagogue or a mosque. and part of it , what i hear you saying it is that it may be that the focus of

jewishness is not singular. not monolithic. not even in one thematic structure. >> very well put. >> we are in this moment of experiencing this creative renaissance of jewish life in the bay area. we are one of the largest concentrations of the jewish innovation or startup sector, which i'm looking at new pathways to express jewish life, jewish wisdom through the arts, earth-based traditions, in an outside of synagogues and jcc's . >> we will take a quick break and continue this wonderful conversation about the jewish community study in the bay area. please join us in just a moment back here on 'mosaic'.

i would like to see the headline saying there is another side to the bay area. >> we take the headlines a little step further to sort of connect these wonderful communities. >> and bracing the positive ability and hopefully spreading it. >> the bay area is full of some amazing, innovative changemakers. >> people making a difference. >> i feel privileged that i get to share their stories. >> wake up with the morning edition, weekdays on kpix. i am juliet goodrich and this is pleasanton. my hometown. this image community and your backyard. you care. and i think that is the bottom line. have covered stories all over the bay area and it is beyond just kind of the headlines, it is getting to a deeper fabric of what that person is about and what they are trying to do in their job.

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good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and honored to be your host this morning in the middle of a whatever conversation about the jewish population study that was just done in the bay area. welcome back to julie and rabbi, who are directors of community impact of their respective federation. julie at the jewish community federation and endowment foundation in san francisco, and in the east bay, rabbi andrew, welcome back. it seems like the population study is really in the midst of a robust analysis. it is not a singular concluded, portrait. i think portraits are wonderful , because it is more dynamic than study or analysis. it seems like it is a little bit ongoing analysis and i wonder if you could talk a little bit about how that's going. >> yeah. i also love the word,

portrait. if you look at a portrait in a museum there is so much depth to it as opposed to a photograph which can be flat. indeed, that is true. there is ongoing analysis that we roll the portrait out in mid february and that is really the beginning of the process. the whole community is participating in the conversation to ongoing meetings. there is a final report due at the end of the summer. and another exciting innovation with the portrait which is a digital tool, so people can kind of play around with the data and look at it according to lenses they are interested in. that is also expected at the end of the summer. if you keep checking back on our website, you will see additional reports, the scorecard link and people are writing a lot of opinion pieces and you can find that organize on the website as well under the community study banner. >> is there a place in the portable for somebody who is out in the community to give

input about what they seem? >> absolutely. when we do the digital portrait tool, a place for conversation where people can say he was very see myself or here is what i don't see myself. >> fascinating. in the context, so far, what are some of the challenges and some of the ways in which we see ourselves that are perhaps different than what we thought or the way we thought we saw each other. that is part and parcel of what we find out new about us. >> i think and he described what is so incredible and exciting and dynamic about the bay area jewish community. pivoting from that, with all of that is a foundation going back to the original observation that so many people are unengaged in jewish life and community. without a vibrancy it is a core. that is a significant take away. thinking, why is that? and what can we do to draw more people

to experience jewish life since it provides so much meeting and grounding. in the world today. it is a lot of are looking at at some of these community conversations and we will continue to , how can this lead to new policy and direction for jewish communal leadership ? so the community is more representative of the full population. >> what are some of the, if we can label pockets , of folks that you think of concentric circles and there is a core then what is the circle after that in the circle after that and the circle after that? can we name some of those outer circles? >> yes. we found economic stress and strain in the bay area population and even pockets of poverty. but even the poverty which was about 2%, about 22 or 20% of people said , they are really struggling. there just barely managing to make ends meet. this is a very

significant learning and we find perhaps in previous studies or generations , older people were the ones that were less financially secure in previous generations, not true today. this is reflected in the general population as well and affirmed by a study. it is younger people, young adults and young families who are struggling to make ends meet in very profound ways. they are saddled with things that older generations just are not like the high cost of housing, immense student dead, and the lack of stability in the job market today. it is affecting her younger people in profound ways , that we don't expect to just resolve when they get -- when i was growing up, yes, there was a struggle but there was an understanding that you would hit a certain age and that was -- it does not feel that way anymore. >> does that economic , you use the term economic uncertainty, economic stress, does that

seem to be like across-the-board of one's career? it is from the young adult and a recent college graduate all the way through to someone nearing retirement? >> no. much more so in the younger and next . 18 to 34 and 35 to 49. much more profoundly. this sort of lack of stability economically . which i don't mean to imply there are not seniors who on a shuttling, but the most economic need we are seeing is in the younger sets of the demographics. >> when you use 2%, poverty group, is that an older cohort? >> that we need to unpack more which is leading to further analysis and andy and i have spoken about diving more deeply into the 2%. and of course the 20% of the, yes we are making it but just barely. >> interesting. we need to

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immersive and weather like you have never seen it. join juliet goodrich and norah o'donnell, weeknights 6:00 to 7:30 on kpix . watch the only 8:00 and 9:00 news weeknights on pix+. good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and honor to be your host. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the jewish demographic portrait that was done in the bay area. welcome back rabbi and julie. rabbi, we were talking about some of the economic stressors of the portrait study and i wonder if you can talk more about what the stressors are at this point that we know of. >> one of the things i wanted to highlight that these pockets of poverty and economic stress which really impact is psychologically,

emotionally, presents itself as a headline and was really a surprise to a lot of people. when we look out at the community, it is very easy to see affluence and economic boom. one of the great gifts that the portrait offers us is really the ability to see what is hard to see and the responsibility we have is a community. is really to look at the safety net within our community and how it can be buttressed and more active. and the other piece is, we know there is a stigma around poverty and economic strain and part of our role as a community is to be conscious and to address the strain so that we can be more supportive of those who are in need. >> it brings to my mind just the complexity of what that means because when you think of the jewish community at large, as an immigrant community and by large the jewish community across the country considers itself to be a successful immigrant story and part of that story has to do with economic success like

what julie was saying earlier. a kind of assumption you go to college and you get a career and you are kind of fine and education elevates you and there is a lot of things that lineup after that and i think part of what were seeing with economic stress is that you might do those things and yet, it may not be the same level of success and expectations changing and a lot of us in the community are in the trades or become disabled. in some way or don't earn an income based on a professional career. i am wondering what those things are going to show us about ourselves in terms of what then gives us what you said earlier about the poor assesses of our interaction with each other. >> it is too soon to tell because we are early. what strikes me, we have seen the work of federations and philanthropy within the jewish community change. but with this data point highlights for us, it really harkens back to the origin of federations here

in the bay area. and in the country, which is to be accessible and supportive of those who are vulnerable in our community and to be a force for good in reaching out and to helping them stabilize. the shape that will take is part of our work moving forward. >> do we know at this point in the portrait were some of these portraits are? across the entire bay area or in a particular place or county? >> the part where people are struggling to make ends meet, we see that throughout. we don't look at one county or geographic area and say, here it is. it is pretty evenly distributed. in terms of the actual poverty, where is that? we need to do a deeper analysis on that and i think we will find more of a locust there. that is part of the final report in more detail. and to say, it is really true what

was said and you pointed out. of the jewish community, the organized communal life is more occupied by middle-class and upper-middle-class and affluent people, as it is, it is not your story and narrative, you will not opt in. not because that she just would not think this is something for you. that is relevant for you. it is important as we go forward to think about how to make this community one that really is reflective of the population. which right now i don't think it is. we have work to do. >> it seems so important when we talk about within the consequence is two issues around philanthropy and issues at points of access and what you join or don't join and where you can be part of the community at large. this is such a wonderful conversation and we will put this up on our website and continue to participate. for more information on the jewish community the endowment fund

in san francisco go to www.jewishfederation.org. and for the east bay, jfet.org. thank you for being with us on 'mosaic'.

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