conversation in ways you expressed your leadership in responding to these kinds of events happening in the world around us. >> well. the religious action center is the social justice department or manifestation of the reform movement. that is a national organization. they've been around with it. in 2012 they decided they would

need to organize that impact the statewide policy. california is under the umbrella of the rack and completely integrated into the national organization but we're also a statewide network of put together the justice work of each congregation to be much more powerful on a statewide level. >> thank you. we should say also reform movement in american jewish life is a part of a theological branch in the united states. >> so do you see the jewish community represents over 60 jewish institutions in the bay area on a wide range of issues. it's issues that the community cares about and we build consensus on those. we take those, turn it into action. we're trying to amplify the

community voice. we're one of i think about 100 in the country formed in the wake of the holocaust when our community got together and realized we needed to be more effective in advocating for issues that impacted the bring community together to increase the effectiveness. >> in the broaderrer jewish landscaping, it's not attached to any particular branch. it's more of a community based. >> that is correct. we represent a cross. >> i guess from the perspectives, can you talk a little bit about how you even understand what is jewish response to an event.

>> you're referring to a number of events that happened recently it's public but internal. when there's a shooting at a mosque or natural disaster even there are other kinds of responses and there's lots of overlap because we care about human beings. there's a kind of response that happens when people feel like we're personally under attack and we have to do both thinking on a policy level and thinking about how we care for our communities. >> interesting, yes. karen, your perspective? >> when something happens, it's

not just to our community. it's to many other communities. our communities want to do something. we have an imperative. we see everybody in god's image. when a tragedy happens what can our community provide? >> interesting. believe it or not, we're going to take a quick break and come back to continue this conversation in a moment on mosaic.

welcome badge we were about how your organizations view we response in general to events and talked a little bit about the current events that happened in the other segment, they respond to the world at

times and times we see a particular bit responding to a bit and we don't see the work otherwise. wondering if you could talk about the nature of your on going response to the world anyway in an on going way. >> yes, i really period that question. as it happened in the past several weeks this season, california which is again the network of reform congregations in california has chosen as our top player of the campaign a gun violence prevention campaign. >> we're looking for full funding for those all over the

state because of how effective they are. including a calling week to governor new? we were able to do what we were warranted to do to arm the attack. something we were able to do right here and now due the gun violence. >> there's local programs operating in individual cities. >> and they're a state or county program. >> we're looking for statewide funding to bring those em yet where the funding does not allow them to fully operate yet. i'll distinguish between the programs and shooting because

they aren't the same. these programs are operating where gun violence is a part of every day life and where people are most at risk for being injured or killed by violence. >> when we look at many of the challenges whether it's challenges towards gun violence we worked on as well whether it's poverty or we build relationships and start proactively by building the relationships and working with other communities. for us to advance any issues we

have and concerns we have, it's important to build coalitions with other organizations of interest working on same issues we are. we're building these year in, year out. day out so when something like this happens not only do we have one someone to call but someone we've been working on advocating towards these ends and be much more effective on whether it's getting legislation passed or bringing the community together to address the needs >> we have a lot of overlap in our perspective. it's about building relationships.

he needs to look up stnd say why are people hungry? why are we having shootings. we're looking at that. >> what's the injury response and how do you sustain something and get into the deeper loops of something that happens in a moment. we'll be back here on mosaic. i.

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good morning and welcome back. we're in the middle of a wonderful presentation. the ceo organizer for the accent center and karen who is

the middle east project director for the jewish community relations counsel. >> bringing up issues of the underlying currents of something around, for example expoverty is there anom industry or education issue or advocacy issue. let's talk about how you understand what the elements are in terms of maintaining response and building towards response. it might be part of the event

in a moment. >> california at this point has six shoes that we work on. we ask ourselves the question of what is california with our dreams and what is the next step to take to get there. in terms of sustaining our work after a given campaign, we go back to that question and we go back to the issues that we've built our teams to work on. so we actually have now an issue team on each of six issues. housing, climate change, immigrants rights, let's see if i can remember them all. gun violence prevention. each of our teens is looking at the campaigns that we could potentially work with our partners on in a given season. so we're doing that research

and building those relationships. >> counsel perspective, how does that function? over the last few years we've taken up issues on economic and racial justice. this year, we're looking at democracy. we feel many of these core issues come from democracy overthreat. our model we use the we study the issues and take a year and bring together the committees and groups and study the issue and bring in experts and host town halls and give a chance for the community to experts and we craft our

statements and come up with a list of action items we're going to do to follow up on those particular issues that we've taken a consensus on. >> i'm curious to know within each of your perspectives, a group coming together is an accomplishment and paying attention to what each individual is saying in a group and how to process then yields something of a consensus. i'm curious to know how do you decide oh, it's immigration or it's democracy or it's education or whatever it is, how do you even come to those themes to begin with. >> we look at what's going on in the community and where we're putting out the most fires. we even step back and say what are the core issues? that's where we came around. it's not just an issue of

looking at incarceration rates. it's a whole step back and issue on racial justice. same thing with democracy. we bring our committees structures together, they come up with a consensus to look at a particular issue and it's a whole process of building consensus around that. >> i also have an opportunity for justice teams and for them to think about what to care about, what's happening and where is your congregation on different issues and where can you work as a congregation that won't decide it and bring people together and have an

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good morning. welcome back. we were talking about this worked for a lot of people in the jewish community. if you can talk about that aspect of the work in general. >> i think a lot of people

relate to the aspect of social action and social justice. that for them is their expression in judaism. it's a fun place. we have so many different and unique organizations and so many niches that people can go into to express their jewishness and jewish values and way they come at it. this kind of work mobilizing the community is something that will bring people in where perhaps in other parts of the jewish community they don't find a home. they can find a home there. >> would you say that's true from the jewish committee relations perspective whether you're a jew of color, religious jew, secular jew, jew by choice that any age, any ability, is that across the board from your perspective? >> yeah, absolutely. these issues bring us co

juice of jews. when we get the opportunity to ask for justice with jews not just with individuals there's a coming together of who we want to be. there's a few ways to express what it means to be jewish by acting on the world around us and impacting policy. >> i'm wondering from a jewish perspective, the notion from justice in the world after they arrived out of two stories. we are creating uniquely in god's image. it's not just me but it's you too as well as we were free from slavery. we come out of a place of oppression and moved into a

place of freedom. those two core biblical stories yield these values that sort of animate us to do good in the world, do justice in the world. i'm wondering. >> can you talk about how it animates us. >> acts on the other issues we look to our history and the way justice is framed as something we're connected to in part because of our own history.

not to have the protection of law, all of those things we can feel in our bones and we organize based on history as well as knowing what's right. >> absolutely. >> a lot of people came to this because of their own story. it infused them with the need to do that. the need to have a different way of looking at people to come in this country than popular discourse right now. >> we've come full circle from how we respond event whether it's a national disaster that needs immediate response indoor or a shooting

at a synagogue or mosque. can we talk about a sentence or two, the impact. >> we need to come together and find comfort and listen to each other and how we're doing. we need to get together and talk about what we do so we don't act from fear. >> these kinds of increasing instability we need to stand together. we have a choice to make. >> thank you so much for being with us. deal talk.

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