so please pick up copies of both books and help me welcome andrew weiss and ambassador yovanovitch. so welcome to everybody here tonight. i think we're in for a real treat and finding out more about this book. so when andrew told me that he was writing a book, his first book, and it was going to be a nonfiction graphic novel, i was kind of shocked, to tell you the truth, because, you know, here he is, this expert on russia international affairs, and he's doing a graphic novel. and i thought, you know, am i the only one who is so uncool that i've never read a graphic novel? but i can and i'm not going to make you show hands as to who else has not read a graphic novel. but now i have read one andrew's, and i'm telling you, you should line up and buy it because it is great. you will learn about putin, you will learn about russia, you will learn about the last 30 years of international affairs. and, you know, i kind of consider myself to be an expert in some of these things as well. and i learned a lot from this book. and so i highly recommend it. so my first question though, since we'r

weiss and i am honored to be your host . we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the jewish economic portrait done here in the bay area. welcome back, rabbi andrew kastner and julie gold. rabbi, we were talking about the economic stats of the stressors of the study. can you talk more about that? >> yeah, one of the things i wanted to highlight is that these pockets of poverty and economic stress, which really impact us psychologically, emotionally , presents itself as a headline. what is 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, but one of the great gifts the portrait offers us is really the ability to see what is hard to see. the responsibility that we have is a community is really to look at kind of the safety net within our community and how it can be buttressed and more active. the other piece is that we know there is a stigma around poverty and economic strain. part of our role as a community is to be conscious and to address this strain so we can be more supportive of those who are in need . >> you know, it brings to my mind just the complexity of what that

andrew doyle. let's get some more questions from our beautiful studio audience. our first question is from john weissight man for the job. we've been discussing this for a while now with. musk is right to have taken twitter. he has been preoccupied with worries about how many are seeing his tweets at the moment was an interesting twist the so last week twist in the tale. so last week he's the twitter ceo obviously. he took his twitter account private for day to test private for a day to test whether that might boost the size audience the size of his audience and the move prominent move after several prominent right accounts that musk right wing accounts that musk interacts complained recent interacts with complained recent changes twitter that have changes to twitter that have reduced their reach. is it just the case that maybe people aren't as interested in his tweets anymore? going on tweets anymore? what's going on here? might here? yeah, i think that might be mean, i look, be a thing. i mean, i look, there things elon does. be a thing. i mean, i look, thith, things elon does. be a thing. i mean,

andrew doyle. let's get some more questions from our beautiful studio audience. our first question is from john weissight man for the job. we've been discussing this for a while now with. musk is right to have taken twitter. he has been preoccupied with worries about how many are seeing his tweets at the moment was an interesting twist the so last week twist in the tale. so last week he's the twitter ceo obviously. he took his twitter account private for day to test private for a day to test whether that might boost the size audience the size of his audience and the move prominent move after several prominent right accounts that musk right wing accounts that musk interacts complained recent interacts with complained recent changes twitter that have changes to twitter that have reduced their reach. is it just the case that maybe people aren't as interested in his tweets anymore? going on tweets anymore? what's going on here? might here? yeah, i think that might be mean, i look, be a thing. i mean, i look, there things elon does. be a thing. i mean, i look, thith, things elon does. be a thing. i mean,