i am rabbi eric weiss. i am honored to be your host. faith communities are changing and making an intense effort to get to know themselves. we invite you to a conversation about a jewish population study that's just been concluded in the san francisco bay area. we would like to introduce you to julie, director of community impact at the san francisco based jewish community federation and endowment foundation and to rabbi castner from the jewish federation and foundation of the east bay. welcome. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> let's ask you what is the jewish population study? >> well, this is a study about the demographics and so much more of the bay area jewish community. there are many things that are exciting about this study but i think most exciting is it's the first population study that's ever been done that includes the entire bay area. that's ten counties. it looks not just at demographics but more sociodemographics about the population. >> generally, we are talking about the far east ba