Stories Beyond the Arches: Women’s Voices from Ramle
We are excited to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Stories Beyond the Arches: Women’s Voices from Ramle”, which will be held on 15.3 at 18:00 in a
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The Christian Communities of Jerusalem – What Has Changed?
Current Situation and Future Prospects | Annual Symposium in Memory of Daniel Rosing, Founding Director of The Rossig Center for Education and Dialogue In the fast changing reality of the last
From Separation to Inclusion – The Rossing Report July 2022
Dear Friends, As a parent who raised three children in Jerusalem, I insisted that they engage in some type of interreligious or Israeli-Palestinian dialogue initiative before they graduated from High School. Had I not placed such a condition, my children would have had no contact with the ‘other’ before starting their adult lives. Unfortunately, this …
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Seeing Eye to Eye
1200 Jewish, Muslim and Christian students from 38 schools in Israel gathered at the Sabach el-Shir (Morning Song) Event, to celebrate 16 years of the “Dialogue and Identity” project and to sing “Seeing Eye to Eye” written in Hebrew and Arabic for the occasion.
The Power of Stories in Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding – The Rossing Report April 2022
Dear Friends, As we spend time with our families during Ramadan, Passover and Easter, stories will be shared between us. We often forget about the power of a story and how it shapes who we are – a lesson that was the focus for one of our groups over the past few months. Within the …
Stories Beyond the Arches: Women’s Voices from Ramle
We were very excited to open the exhibition “Stories Beyond the Arches: Women’s Voices from Ramle” last week, to mark International Women’s Day. On this festive evening, over 100 people celebrated together, women and men, Israeli-Jews and Palestinians, young and elderly from different communities in the city – gathered side-by-side in the Open House. The …
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We Came to Drive Away the Darkness… What Darkness? – The Rossing Report December 2021
Dear Friends, Over the course of the Chanukah holiday, several different events raised questions about belonging in the Holy Land, and how we understand that connection. On the first night of Chanukah, the President of Israel, Isaac (Bougie) Herzog chose to light candles in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. In response to criticism, …
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Dialogue, not diatribe
Earlier this week far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich (leader of the Religious Zionism party) attacked the Arab members of Knesset and by inference at least, all Arab citizens of Israel saying, “You’re here by mistake, it’s a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948.” The appalling cultural resonance of …
The Rossing Report September 2021
A New Year brings Old and New Challenges? To the report click HERE. Dear Friends, At the beginning of the school year, both parents and children are eager to find out who their homeroom teacher will be, particularly in grade school. This year, one appointment reached the national news when parents in a school in …