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News & Updates

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Public events

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 mark of International Women's Day which is celebrated a week before. The exhibition is the result of the work of the Open House volunteers, in collaboration with Keshet 360 Ramla Youth Center.

15/03/2023

the Open House - Ramle

Today there are many forces working to make the place where we live less democratic, less inclusive and accepting, who believe in a world based on hatred, separation and ethnic, national and religious discrimination. We say no. No to the prevailing cycle of hatred and fear, no to prejudice and discrimination. Instead we say yes. Yes to mutual respect and shared society. Yes to creating the desire and the capacity to live together. Yes to a future of equality and inclusion. We need you because partnership is power!

15-25/11/2022

How have the events of May 2021 affected peacebuilding efforts? How has the field coped with those challenges? What can we learn from these events to work more strategically and more successfully? Are there new opportunities which have arisen?

27/07/2022

Zoom Webinar

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.

May 2022

Is dialogue enough for promoting better relations between different ethnic, national and religious communities? If not, what other methods and strategies should organisations, institutions and individuals adopt?

Zoom webinar

Join our conversation on interreligious dialogue and racism with some of the leading scholars and figures in the interreligious world!

Zoom Webinar

Join our conversation about women in inter-religious dialogue. We will discuss the unique perspective and values they bring to the field as well as the challenges they face.

Zoom Webinar

News and Updates

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 mark of International Women’s Day which is celebrated a week before. The exhibition is the result of the work of the Open House volunteers, in collaboration with Keshet 360 Ramla Youth Center.

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

Students singing together
From Separation to Inclusion – The Rossing Report July 2022

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.

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

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 walls of an old house in Ramle, eleven students sat down together to start a conversation.

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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.

Christmas
We Came to Drive Away the Darkness… What Darkness? – The Rossing Report December 2021

Over the course of the Chanukah holiday, several different events raised questions about belonging in the Holy Land, and how we understand that connection.

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 that remark makes the lack of condemnation by mainstream Jewish leaders all the more shameful.

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The Rossing Report September 2021

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……

Annual reports

The 2022 annual report

2022 was an exciting year!
Click here to see what we’ve been up to over the past year.

Annual Report
The Rossing Center 2021 Annual Report

If you want to see what we’ve been up to this last year, click here for the PDF version

The Rossing Center 2020 Annual Report

Our 2020 Annual report is now available If you want to see what we’ve been up to this last year, click here for the PDF version

The Rossing Center 2019 Annual Report

Our 2019 Annual report is now available If you want to see what we’ve been up to this last year, click here for the PDF version, …

The Rossing Center 2018 Annual Report

Our 2018 Annual report is now available Click here to see what we’ve been up to in the last year (PDF, 1.8 MB), or click …

The Rossing Center 2017 Annual Report

Our 2020 Annual report is now available If you want to see what we’ve been up to this last year, click here for the PDF version, …

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