good morning. i'm honored to be host this morning and were joined by two new clergy here in the bay area carla the assistant rabbi at combination emanu-el in the rabbi danny the new rabbi confiscation in san francisco wellcome. let's just jump in and say where did each of you come from? i have come from toronto where i was around for 31 years to run too was also my home town of was born there and served there until this past year and have come to the bay area. i grew up in dallas tx and

i moved here from new york and was ordained about a year ago and i am wondering from both of the places that should come from and certainly if been to school in the meantime what attracted you to come to the san francisco bay area and serve our unique jewish community? the bay area is so wonderful place to live and the jewish community here is a great jewish community and i was attracted to come because of the diversity in the openness that one finds in san francisco and just having been here only in the past as a tourist loving the time i spent to the bay area, it's good to come here i went to stanford as an undergraduate and decided become a rabbi based in the bay area

jewish committee and how vibrant and merely engaging it was for young adults say think i left to move to israel i was wanted to come back and this is just an amazing opportunity to reconnect with friends and mentors and have a lot of family that lives in east bay soot was also dropped. a lot of conversation in the community about how revision is irrelevant relevant to a contemporary way of life. there's a lot of conversation about how this one's faith in spirituality actually intersected hopefully and to great but that different ways in which we understand life. social action issues it seems these to the state of california there's a thief when ballot measure having to do with health care or social status and

commitment and same-sex marriage of adduction family life that had a thread that its linked to division to one spirituality and all the different ways one might try to find out where god is in all this area at the bay area jewish community and have your hair year and you're attracted to this sort of the diversity what you see in terms of the vibrancy of jewish life in that context? i think that it's impossible to separate our concerns form the well-being of society and the tolerance and acceptance of diversity in the

community with our spiritual and religious values. teaching about social equality and social justice and this really a big part of our job as rabbis to bring the teaching the jewish tradition and torre today's contemporary issues. my experiences first-year spending a lot of time with people in their 20s and 30s and san francisco is that life is lonely and it's a very plug into different kinds of devices and that some way this is a natural

flow to political of spiritual apathy so i think judea's some offers direct answer to that and gives the community say don't feel so alienated. and gives you a sense of purpose in of a frame by which to engage the broader world and it gives you time to disconnect and talked yourself and other people and not just to screen. the bay area has an intensity to it and an ability to experience and makes those issues more relevant to people. recorded take a quick break and join us in a moment.

welcome back to mosaic. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation with nuclear issue that have joined us here in the bay area we have with us the rabbi carla assistant rabbi in santa discoed also rabbi danny and we were talking earlier about the ways in which bay area is a very unique place for connection and building community and someone drain if we could have conversation about what you see and what your doing a particular in your congregational settings on what it means to build community and bring people together. we in the daly city part of san francisco face unique challenges demographically no longer the center of the jewish

community that once was and the complications that are self of park are smaller and numbers then they were maybe 10 years ago or 15 years ago so we have begun to collaborates on education programming need programming to bring the full resources of four neighboring synagogues together rabbis to teach courses some services and programs combined in an effort to create a larger pool of participants and to reach out even further into the committee. for those folks listening who might live in that cluster let's let them know the congregations that are involved in that cluster grit of the four

consecrations working on collaboration can they go on to the internet, " to call one of you and find out more get a commission from our programs from any of the four synagogues websites we about three years ago did a listening campaign and we had a small creek conversations with about 600 congregants and asked them what is it that keeps you up that night in what is really concerning new and the two main things that we her art alienation feeling lonely and disconnected and the second thing was cost of living at surprising given the cost of san francisco said the to the two main areas we happen focusing around around community building the first issue if

started a man in london neighborhood which is that every emanu-el the zip codes to this and 94118 your part of the 941 when a manual community if you have the alleys on a competent to is a the sun tears of code in of the committee building some of the committee caring program that will deliver meals to you for sec had will check on using the people for a few home bounder to what some to come to set to anything that those with direct, get support we do that now completely by zip codes. that has been a very amazing experiment in the last year-and- a-half in reaching congregants and smaller local groups given that we have 2000 families it's a lot of people to coordinate its been very successful in the second piece has been using the tools of committee organizing to think about how we can advocate

for young families in particular to the if to stay in san francisco in the long term given the increasing costs of both housing and education. i've spent the last three years building up an advocacy campaign to support our local public schools. if the adjusted between both the fear places regardless of size there is a common theme of what seems like a kind of yearning to connect and to feel that the matter and that who you are is an important part of the community whether you're in a smaller place, or in a larger place i think that there's a tremendous challenge to the jewish community faces of aging and declining numbers of those to affiliate with of the

different kinds of organizations and the jewish community whether it's a synagogue service organizations or federation or organizations and how we are going to be in cage this generation to be a part of these organizations and sustain the organizations that have been the and the structure that has built strong jewish community that we know. and having people feel that they matter and having people feel that they are part of a communal family is really the key to engaging them and drying them back into the orbits of these organizations that provide the structure of jewish life. whether it is family dinners at the synagogue before services or

other kinds of retreat program to programs that bring people together in addition to the activity that takes place once they are together, which they're trying to reach out and engage this generation. a quick break and be back as we continue the conversation with the new cliche here the san francisco bay area.

welcome back. i'm honored to be your host this morning in the middle of a conversation with new clergy here in the san francisco bay area with said goodbye to the rabbi carla of conservation emmanuel and to rabbi daniel and now joined by rabbi barnett and

the new cancer combination in san francisco wellcome. let's just jump in again and asked you where you've come from what attracted you to come to the san francisco bay area. i'm not new to the bay area i've lived here my entire adult life under to the clergy precious ordained in june that i'm very lucky to have a job in the heart of san francisco to started in july. and i am the new one in the area has moved into this and discuss the area six weeks ago from columbus ohio are my family and been living for a long time have been in 25 years and attracted me to the area was the than the obvious was the jewish tree the here has vibrancy and

its creativity and its imagination about what the future of jewish life can be. i was really motivated and inspired by the people i met here and that also really like the people in the east bay and the census, area that are bright and imaginative and willing to venture an explorer about future jewish life. when you say that you live to new to the cantor at what attracted you to become kantor kokoschka much time to you have? as a professional musician my entire adult life in this secular jew and i started performing the duties of the canter as a soloist about four to 15 years ago and became hooked on it and realize that there was more to it than just

singing a good service and i decided if i wanted to continue this work that needed to understand the kutchin when i was doing aside from singing tonight's motivated me to go to the cantorial school. when a jury look around with different eyes and new tonight area and how to continue to build and cultivate the vibrancy of the jewish cents a pier in the bay area what do hope for? how was listening to the first couple you're interviewing an electric they said about listening to the people the time i lives that we really have to build a community from the grassroots kind of way it is that committee building type of formula and long gone to the days of you and i with the rabbi stand up on a high pulpit and told people what to believe and how to believe and we live

in a much more eclectic kind of a time. requires active listening and compassion and understanding of how people live and where the living and use the resources available which there are many in the san francisco bay. to reach out and attend to the people where they are and to realize as read to the they will then come in as well so i think it starts is a grassroots kind of a project and the framework for jewish community life. everybody is talking about the concerns for the low affiliation may to have to bring people back as if it's something novel. in fact affiliation low affiliation is ratr historic and one might even say biblical

and the idea that affiliation this the be all and bill of future of jewish life i think is going the cart before the horse. you need to find out what people believe in and out to the structure that to weaken do it in a community setting being judicious and then has to be done collectively but that said the we have to really look at. were going to take a quick break and continue this wonderful conversation please join us in a moment.

welcome back. i'm honored to be host this morning we're at the tim allen of the one of a conversation with new clergy to come to the census the bay area but now with

the rabbi of the temple of israel and the cantor of the congregation in san francisco. we're talking about the need to understand what motivates people and how they yearn for community what attracts them to committee and whether or not i'm actually and could affiliation of the synagogue and am wondering lyrics prince is i'm it to the clergy but i have a sort of minister the academic side having just gone out of school and discussed all of the issues. the rabbis in the first segment talked a lot about how to help people feel connected and been decanter am always interested in how the music could bridge some of that loneliness and reach out in a committed date and in many congregations plan included there are different services

toward different committee groups. there's a family service and a young person service and more musical service with the band and it tells me that music has a hotline for people to the soul. that even if they cannot talk about god and use the word got especially in the reform movement they can sing prison they can feel a connection that is different when you sing it as opposed to reading the words are saying that out loud. i think a lot of synagogues her trying to cater to musical tastes of their congregations. there is little danger in that with the very rich addition then unfortunately as falling by the wayside and i feel that it's my mission to be a bridge to create contemporary service that speaks to people in the here and now but not give up on our rich

musical traditions. some of the things in my congregation if talked about this summer's of secreting a generational kind of activities item in programming that into generational worship. i'm trying to get away from the car compartmentalizing the different kinds of services for the different constituencies. are not that they are convocation of one decreed a worship experience and educational experience that is in fact going to be into generational said that the young are learning by modeling from the old and older integrating in getting to know that children and our schools so that not religious school and everyone else and has to be we are one community and it's going to take the village to make it happen. i think adding to that how you make an experience for people how did they step over the threshold of worship and

become changed by it said that when they come back across the threshold that they're different and they bring something from that worship experience up at another worship is the be all and end of the special experience i think there's a social action experience an educational experience you name it music can be ritual and steady to and many doorways into the synagogue that are nominal and they will make the important moments stick it and if we just focus and ritual i think my mess many more opportunities than a more meaningful perhaps for the majority of the people. this is such a large conversation but listening to the thing that comes to my mind is that were committing this much time for committee with people on board and the ferry system and people in the cards individually or in the carpool lane picking people up a car pull stop and kids shuttled from

ballet lessons and soccer practice and hoped to " become cheaper school a couple of times a week but they're so over schedules. how do we bring warship into a daily experience like people i'm sure ron i-pod listening to music on the ferry as an example. and think for a lot of people there are moments of spiritual capacity in daily life has to same might happen outside the synagogue. within a time electronically we have all of the cops that you want applications in the movement is in fact in those things making them available and we need to publicize that and also all kinds of resources to use. it just is time to save wreck the end of our time thinking so much for tunis this morning and i wish to wonderful

day here from mosaic.