But I wanted to do something that had street credibility. Meaning, why can't you talk about religion, faith, fanaticism, the way you talk about sports, sex, music, on the street? We always hear the Arab street, the street, the red states, vox populi, but then you go out and it's like, "What are you talking to people on the streets for, why aren't you talking in the university or to the professor or to the experts?

I don't believe in the ignorance of the street. I believe there is that of a street intelligence.

Jews need to find their place in this discussion [anti-Semitism], and it's very hard, because we're in the cross hairs - because of Israel, the Mideast, the neocons, all these things. But look at our history as victims of religious-inspired madness for 1,600 years. How are we going to step into this battle, how are we going to defuse and combat this kind of hate? That is the huge question.

Just think of the war on terror. The greatest failure? Intelligence. We have no idea how these people think, we have nobody in Al Qaeda.