
News & Updates
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Public events
15/03/2023
the Open House - Ramle
26/1/2023
jerusalem institute for policy research, Radak St 20, Jerusalem.
15-25/11/2022
27/07/2022
Zoom Webinar
May 2022
Zoom webinar
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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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, 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.
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!
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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, …