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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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Women Sotries Ramle

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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Christmas

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 and Identity meeting

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 …

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The Balfour Declaration: From Imagining a State to Re-imagining Majority-Minority Relations in Jewish Thought and the Jewish State

By Ophir Yarden, ADAShA program director Read the full article at Academia.edu To the full book: Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World, James Walters (ed.), 2018   In exploring the international status of the Balfour Declaration at the time of its promulgation, this essay demonstrates that it represented the global consensus circa …

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