i am rabbi eric weiss. i am honored to be your host. people are asking important questions about how do we care for one another? how do we get to know one another? how do we form leaders into the next generation? we would like to invite you into a conversation with some of the ways the jewish community is answering those questions by inviting you into a conversation with some israelis here from a special organization. in hebrew the name means hues. i would like to introduce you to the rabbi of the free synagogue of jerusalem and freedman works for an important organization which is a legal services corporation for ethiopia. welcome. >> good to be here. >> let's ask you, what does this do? >> it means hue. it brings together leaders of different segments of the israeli society, people from the orthodox world. i am a reformed rabbi. people from a mid eastern background, european background, people from different sorb i can economical statuses. we are there in order to work together, in order to create a group that will deepen the pluralis