good morning and welcome to "mosaic." i'm honored to be your host. across our country's faith communities are changing and they're making an intense evident to get to know themselves. what we would like to do is invite you into a coersation ab in the san francisco bay area. julie gold is at the jewish community fed range and endowment federation d rai

cassne the jewish foundation of the east bay. welcome rabbi cassner and julie. >> thank you. >> what is the jewish population study? >> this is a study about the dem grabbings and so much more about the jewish community. there are many things that are excited about the study. it's the first population study that's ever been done that includes the entire bay area. it's ten counties. it looks at sociodemographics about the population. >> so, generally, where talking about the far east bay, what we think of the south bay, silicon and napa. >> and san francisco. >> wonderful. what are some of the things

we've learned? >> so much. i will say a few takeaways and so much to say abch one. i think the most important thing is we have highly engaged small core of jewish people who are engaged in jewish community life and community and highly engaged and quite vibrant and the have the population of the people in the bay area are not actively involved. >> interesting. just rewinding a little bit. i think whenever communities look at themselves, one of the core questions is if someone feels they're part of the core community, they want to know who was included. so how was the study actually done? >> great. well, the study was done in a very methodology way.

we actually did a very controlled random sample. we worked with a polling company called ugov, which is like gallup poll. there were over 3,000 respond didn'ts to the survey and it's weighted through this statistical analysis so you can deduce the large area and population. >> fascinating. and the last time -- well the bay area youish community did a study on itself was when? >> two. in 2004 the san francisco federation did a study on just the subset of the bay area. in 2011, the federation did a study on just the east bay area. so it's been quite a few years and this is precedence setting because it's the entire area.

>> so we've taken a holistic approach to the entire jewish community bay area. >> yes. >> so we think ouwho ws aris a jew and what's jewish status. >> well, we used the broadest deaf nation of who is jewish. if you consider yourself jewish or partial in any way by religion or anything, you're in. as part of the screening that's jewish, so not a narrow definition at all. in fact, the buddest definition. we consider part of the bay area population, people who live with jews. so we have 350,000 jewish

people in the area and 473,000 total people in jewish households >> fascinating. so we'll take a quick break in just a moment. before we go, how does the bay area rank in terms of its actual number have you jewish communities in the country? >> we are the fourth largest. >> i think it goes new york. >> los angeles. >> los angeles i think. southeast florida, which was sort of what? oh, sorry, florida. los angeles and then the bay area. so pretty significant. >> we'll take a quick break and come back to this conversation in just a moment.

welcome back to "mosaic." we're in the middle of a wonderful conversation about a jewish population study that the jewish community has conducted in the yay. both mart of community impact. julie gold was at the san francisco bay federation and dowment foundation and then rabbi cassner the east bay. so i'm wondering are some

of the things we can say about this particular jewish community at this point in time? >> there's 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 meaning making. what we can say about our community is it's extraordinary die versus. it is stable and we're seeing a lot of movement within the bay area. we have a lot of young jews who are looking to ectoe communy orrous>>we know population age pie cuts in terms of age and race and immigration status and that sort of a thing?

>> yes. we know a lot. terms of the pie, the largest percentage of our population are young adults, and, in fact, we have the largest young adult population of any jewish community in the united states, even in north america. and the second bubble of our population are boomers, baby boomers. >> so young adult is probably 18 through. >> 34 and baby boomers late 50s forward. >> somewhere in the 60s or 70, yeah. >> fantastic. what are some of the other big things that are sort of emerging from the study itself? >> well, andy mentioned the diversity. i dare say we have the most diverse jewish population perhaps in the whole world

outside of israel, and you see that increasing beautiful diversity growing the young are you look at the population. so it's about a quarter of househole raal and ethnic diversity in them and then as you get younger, 18 to 34, it's about 38%. we would assume that trend would increase. >> i know there's so much being looked at and analyzed in terms of what one might think of as the facts of a study, but i'm wondering what is sort of highlighted about therefore how people express their jewishness. we have in the bay area, anyway, one of the most diverse communities in the entire world and if we're also seems like the most diverse community in the diaspora, then how does it say how a jewish of color, lgbt

jew, a jewish person who's a single parent, comes to the country on their own and an immigrant to the bay area, you is saying about how we might want to be jewish and, press our jewishness? >> there's a unique cultural characteristic of the bay area and certainly the jewish community in the bay area. we're really defined by flexibility. we have this cultural porousness. we don't experience jewish life in a particular way but there's an openness to integrating and remixing from other culturals and other universal areas and it's a way the jewish life is expressed in the area. >> it seems in a reductionist

sort of way, faith communities think of the locus of their faith community life in their place of worship like a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram or mosque. what i'm hearing you saying in the porousness of it, the locus of our jewishness is not singular. it is not monolithic or in one theme mattic structure. >> that's very well put. >> we're in renaissance of creating a jewish life in the bay area. we have one of the largest jewish innovations or start-up areas the arts, through earth-based traditions in and

outside of synagogues and jccs. >> interesting. we'll take a quick break and come back and talk about the jewish community. come back and watch more on "mosaic."

good morning. welcome back to "mosaic," welcome to be your owed. welcome back to julie e at the

federation and endowment and rabbi andrew kastner. welcome back. it seems like the population is in the middle of a robust analysis. po. not a nc i think portrait wondl beuse more dynamic than study or analysis but this seems like it's a little bit more on going analysis. i wonder if you can talk a little bit about how that's going. >> sure, and i also love the word portrait. when you look at a portrait in a museum, there's so much depth to it than a photograph, which is flat. we rolled the portrait out in mid-february and that's the beginning of the process. the whole community is participating through ongoing meetings and there's a final report that's due the end of

the summer. another exciting innovation is a digital tool so people can play around with the data and look at it according to lenses and that's also expected the end of the summer. if you keep checking back on the website you'll see additional reports, scorecard links and people are righting opinion pieces and you can find that under the community study banner. >> is there a place in the portal for someone who's just out in the community to give input on what they see? >> absolutely. we want, when we do the digital portrait tool, a place for conversation. here's where i see myself, or here's where i don't see myself. >> fascinating. what are some of the challenges that are different from what we saw? that's part and parcel when we find out what's new about us.

>> right. i think andy described what's exciting and dynamic about the bay area jewish community and sort of pivoting from that with all of that as inundation, going back to the original observation that so many people are engaged in the jewish community, it's a core. so that whis that and what can we do to draw more people to experience jewish life since it provides so much meaning and grounding in the world today. so that is really a lot of what we're looking at in some of these community conversations left-hand continue to. how can this lead to new policy and direction for jewish community leadership so the community is more representative of the full population. >> so what are some of the --

if we can label pockets when you think of concentric circles and there's a core and a circle and a circle after that. can we name some of those outer circles? >> yes. so we found economic stress and strain in the bay area and even pockets of poverty, but more than the poverty, which was about 2%. about 20% said they're struggling, just barely managing to make ends meet. so this is a very significant learning. we learned in previous studies or generations, older people are the ones less financially secure. not true today. this is reflected in the general population as well and confirmed by our it's young adults, young

families who are struggling to make things matter like the high cost of housing and immense student debt and the lack of stability in the job market today. so it's affecting our younger o we--upthere was this struggle and this understanding that you would hit a certain age. >> and does that economic -- you use the term economic uncertainty, economic stress, does that express itself to what seems to across the board of one's career? so it's from the young adult all the way through someone nearing retirement. >> no. much more so in the younger and the next so 18 to 34 and 35 to 39, much more pro foundly this sort of lack of stability economically domean

to imply there's not seniors who aren't struggling but the most economic need we're seeing in the younger sets of the demographics. >> and our 2% when you use the word poverty group, is that an holder cohort? >> that, we need to unpack a little bit more which is leading to further analysis and andy and i talked about diving more deeply into the 2% and, of course, the 20% of yes, we're making this but barely. >> interesting. we'll take a quick break and come back in just a moment on "mosaic."

good morning and welcome back to "mosaic." i'm probablywise. jewi dographic portrait and welcome back rabbi andrew kastner and julie golde. we were talking about the economic stresstors of stressors of the portrait.

>> the economic stress impacts us psychologically and emotionally and it was a surprise to a lot of people. when we look out into the community it's easy flueom see what is hard to see and the responsibility that we have as a community is really to look at kind of 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 this strain so that we can be support supportive of those who are in need. >> you know, this gs to my mind the complexity wh th means. when you think of the jewish

community at saying earlier, there's an assumption that you go to college, you get a career and you're defined. the education defines you what we're seeing with economic stress is you might do those things, and yet, it may not be the same levels of success and a lot of us in the community are in the trades or become disabled or don't earn an income based on a professional career and i'm wondering what those things will show us about ourselves about what then gives us what you said earlier about the porousness of our interaction with one another. >> yeah, it's too soon to tell. what strikeme seen

the work of federations and philanthropy. it harkens back to federations of here in the bay area and the country, which is to be accessible and supportive of those who are vulnerable in our community and to really be a force for good in reaching out and to helping them stabilize. so the shape that that will take is really part of our work moving forward. >> do we know where the pockets are? is it the entiarea? in a particular place or county? >> the parts whopleare stggling don't look at one geographical area and say, here it is. in terms of the actual poverty, where is that, we need to do a

deeper analysis and i think we'll find more of a locus there and that's part of the final report and detail. also, just to say it's really true what andy said and what you pointed out. if the jewish community, the organized community life is organized by upper class, affluent people and that is now your story and narrative, you're not going to opt in. you wouldn't think this is something for you, that's relevant for you, so it's very 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, so we have work to do. >> it seems so important when you talk about issues hard philanthropy and issues around access and what you join and

don't join and what you can be a part of the community at large. rabbi kastner and julie, this is a wonderful conversation. we'll put a comma in the conversation and encourage you to go to the website and continue to participate. for more on the jewish community endowment fund, go to www.jewishfed.org and jfed.org. thank you for being with us on "mosaic."

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