i am rabbi eric weiss m honored to be your host. across the country, faith communities are changing and making an intense effort to know themselves. what we would like to do is invite you into a conversation this morning about a jewish population here in the san francisco bay area. we would like to introduce you to julie goal, the director of community impact at the san francisco-based jewish community federation and endowment foundation and also to rabbi andrew kastner, also a director of the community director foundation of east bay. welcome. >> thank you for having us. >> let's just jump in an ask you, what is the jewish population study? >> right. 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 the study but the most exciting i think is the first population study that has ever been done that includes the entire bay area, that is 10 counties. it looks, not just that demographics, but more sort of like social demographics, about the population.