. >>> and rabbi bennett, rabbi of temple israel alameda. we are about to start a wonderful conversation as a historic trick to israel -- trip to israel. the first time we had been put together for a week long trip the end of january. so let's just jump in. why did we go to israel? what was the trip about? >> alan wanted to go. >> and i'm glad we did. a year ago january i was at a are bin call convention and heard someone talking about an interdenominational trip to israel and i wondered if anybody else had done that. the reasons it sounded interesting resolved how rare it was to have a group of rabbis going together to israel, would be unprecedented for northern california. i started pushing for it. >>> this trip would not have happened without your working with the israel down sell general for north -- counsel general for northern california and this was supported by him. >>> we had a lot of work to do a lot of details to deal with as time went on and the wonderful thing about the trip is that we reached outs to the whole community, to the