The war in Gaza has polarised opinions about Muslims and Jews in many secular societies. There are however, ordinary people who are willing to improve their understanding of ‘the other’ and to remember that power-seeking and politics is not a moral code. Two young women who came to the UK as refugees from Syria are integrating into the local community in Scotland and bringing up their families as practising Muslims. They acknowledge that they have never met a Jewish person and put together some questions they wanted to ask of Jews. These questions were put to three people of different ages from the same Jewish community in the south of England. The resulting conversation tells us what it means to be a Jew in daily life and reveals the wide variations in how Judaism is practised.