Jared Kushner

What this did was it brought out into the public the fact that Jews and Muslims can be together and they can be respectful, they can have meals together, and that the cultures can live together in peace.

I would say the simplest form is it's just a mindset.

And it's almost like you're taught all your life we're enemies or we can't be friends with that tribe.

On the other side of the fence.

And then one day the leaders get up and say, no, it's okay now.

And there was never an issue between the people.

The people were just taught different things and they were separated from each other.

But again, one of the things that I respect about the work you do is you believe in the power of conversation and the power of human interaction.

And these issues and gaps between us feel so big now.

when we think about them, when we're told about them, when we read about them.

But when we go and sit with each other, all of a sudden we realize maybe we have a lot more in common than we have that divides us.

For me, what I've seen about it that's made the biggest difference is I've seen people who wouldn't have the ability to be together, be together,

And that's now forming a nucleus of togetherness, which is a restoration.

So you think about the modern Middle East from post-Holocaust to now.

Again, in 1948, after that War of Independence, you had Jews living in...

Baghdad and Cairo, then they became so anti-Jewish that they then expelled all of the Jews from all these capitals of those cities.

So you think about the Jewish history in Baghdad.

I mean, I think the Talmud was written in Baghdad.

It was a place where in Babylon,

where the Jewish people thrived.