[...] what I found most notable is that I found myself at a gathering of Jewish people in my age cohort, in a section of the city I lived in for seven years (before hopping to the other side of the river about a year ago), and the only person I had ever met before was the organizer. (This doesn’t happen often to me. I grew up in the Greater Boston Jewish community, I have worked in the community for years, I volunteer in the community, etc…) In the inevitable name-game section of the evening, a few people introduced themselves with particular Jewish affiliations (mostly professional), but most didn’t. And while I don’t want to make assumptions that anyone else in the room belonged to that elusive “unengaged” Jewish population that everyone’s so anxious to snag, this group certainly at least has the potential to serve folks both within and outside of the Jewish institutional mainstream.