joining us with rabbi jackie is diane tobin who is the founder and executive director of a community here in jewish. it means in every torng. tongue. and it's an organization that advocates for racial and ethnic diversity in the jewish community. welcome, diane. >> thank you. >> let me ask you, what are your experiences in the jewish community? >> yes. just saying i adopted a child 18 years ago, and i, like many people, you talk about white privilege, many people are not aware of race. it's not part of their lives. so our life became very much -- i didn't know any black jews. we did a study of the research student in the jewish community and the american jewish community to understand who was around, what did that world look like. so now really the whole thing was born in 2000. 15 years later, we provide a space for -- there are a lot of people, jews, normal jews and jews of color, all kinds of jews, who are making different choices in life. this is a world in which people are very open. internet and social media and social networks allow us to make all kinds of choices about our ide