News and Updates

Newsletter October 2024 | A Shared Society – From Dreams to Actions

Dear Friends,For over a year, life in this country has grown increasingly complex and challenging. Each day, people face deeper hatred, pain, sorrow, frustration, and grief, while hope, peace, security, and change feel like distant dreams. The emotions surrounding us are steeped in dark, unyielding hues. Yet, it’s precisely from within this reality that we …

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The Rossing Report 06/2023

Dear Friends, We write to you after months of turbulence, marked by unprecedented protests over the judicial reforms proposed by the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, and including yet another outburst of violent hostilities. While hateful groups continue to incite violence and promote an “us” vs “them” mentality, we must continue to stand firm against …

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Students singing together

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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Children

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.

Presentation

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 …

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