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The founder and contributor to the local jaouish news paper called j the weakly jaouish news paper of northern california. Welcome rachel and alex. Thank you. Rachel, lets jump in and ask, what is this thing about food and identity . Yeah. When i teach classes on jewish food and identity i begin by telling students that food might be the most important subject in the world. And it is the thing that we are probably all thinking about all of the time. And, of course, once i mention it, everybody i...

Good morning and welcome to mosaic. I am rabbi eric weiss. Across our countrys faith communities are changing and making an intense effort to get to know themselves. What we would like to do is invite you into a conversation this morning about a Jewish Population today that has been concluded in the San Francisco bay area. We would like to introduce you to julie gold. The director of Community Impact at the jewish humidity federation and Endowment Foundation. And the director of Committee Impact...

Good morning and welcome to mosaic. I am rabbi eric weiss and i am honored to be your host this morning. We would like to invite you into a serious conversation this morning about Domestic Violence and in particular, Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community. I would like to introduce you to naomi tucker who is the executive director of the. And the Youth Program coordinator. Welcome. Good morning. Lets jump in and talk a little bit about what it is and why is Domestic Violence such an important...

Israeli forces stepping up air strikes across gaza with a Ground Invasion now imminent the Prime Minister vowing to crush the terrorists behind the brutal weekend attacks, as new and sickening atrocities come to light. This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty not just hate, but pure cruelty. The secretary of state arriving in the region this morning, pushing for the release of american hostages were there live speaker scramble obviously, we still have work to do. House republicans nominate Ste...

Point. We were created in 1897 by a group of people studying the tora. Really the mission of the agency comes directly from the tora. This group of individual took a look and said look at this, it shows in the tora that gods tell moses not to charge interest basically to his people, and that it is really important not to benefit from another persons troubles. Based on that, they decided to make it reality. And they created it initially called acts of loving kindness and later became known as the...

Our country and every municipality is looking at issues of aging and the ways in which the values of the country, state, local, exercise those into services and understandings of the way people age and the kinds of services they need. I am wondering if you can give a short history of what department of aging and Adult Services here is in San Francisco. Certainly. San francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. We are a leader in that. The dep...

Would like to introduce you to the rep of the rabbi of the organization. Welcome. Good to be here. Lets jump right in and asked, what does this do . This means hues and it brings people together from the Israeli Society. People from the old orthodox world, the orthodox world, i am a reformed rabbi people from eastern backgrounds and european backgrounds. People from different socioeconomical statuses. We are there to Work Together in order to create a group that will deepen the pluralistic natur...

Ability is looking at issues of aging and all the values of the country and state and locale exercise with values into services and understanding of the way that people age and the kinds of services that they need. And so im wondering if you can just give us a short history of what the department of aging and Adult Services is here. Certainly. Thank you. So San Francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. I think we are a leader in that. The d...

We do online global exhibitions. We really felt that in celebration of our 35th anniversary year, it was time for a little reinvention. The Jewish Film Institute is now the umbrella name for Media Arts Organization that brings the jewish Film Festival to San Francisco. 35 years. What are some of the sub themes . I know every year you have a freedom of expression award for director. Fill us in on what this years festival looks like. This is actually a really wonderful year for our 35th anniversar...

Exhibitions. And we really felt that in celebration of our 35th an verse industry year, it was time for a little anniversary year, it was time for a little reinjection. Its now the umbrella name for the Media Arts Organization that brings it to San Francisco. So 35 years,. What are some of the sub themes. I know every year you have a freedom of expression award far director. So fill us in for a director. So fill us in. This is actually arame wonderful year for our 35th anniversary and we have so...