Elder Cook came to the Jerusalem Center and spoke with Rabbi Michael Melchior as part of the Jewish-Latter-day Saint Academic Dialogue Project, directed this year by Shon Hopkin, a BYU professor here this year. Elder Cook spoke about listening and learning from each other. He showed scriptural basis for commonalities between the two groups. Rabbi Melchior, founder of the Mosaica Center for Religious Conflict Transformation in the Middle East. He is also the Chief Rabbi of Norway. He spoke about peace is a gift of God to the righteous and until Arabs and Jews are willing to meet each other as equals, God cannot send down peace upon this land. He referenced Numbers 6: 24-26, the High Priestly Benediction, which says, "The Lord bless you and keep you, The Lord lift His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Lee and I sat in the front row, as Lee played an interlude piece on the piano, Hine Ma Tov, which Rabbi Malchior began to sing.
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