News & Updates

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Public events

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...

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...

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

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 …

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, …

Children sitting next to each other
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 …

The Rossing Newsletter – April 2020

If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that we are all equally human and vulnerable. Let us learn from this lesson to not only tackle this virus together …

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   …

Why Should Jews Learn About Christianity?

By Hana Bendcowsky, JCJCR Program Director   In order to create an inclusive society, it is important for everyone to have some basic knowledge about and respect for other religious …

Cynicism is the Name of the Game in Jerusalem

By Maayan Raveh*   The Jerusalem Municipality and the State of Israel recently took action against the Churches in the capital. In response, the Churches closed the holiest place to …

Why Was the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Closed?

What is the background to the crisis in the relations between Israel and the heads of the Churches in Jerusalem? Dr. Amnon Ramon, Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research[1] On Sunday, …

Chaplaincy, the Holy Land and Multi-Narrative Tours

By Lorne Anderson   I thought I had a comprehensive handle on interfaith relationships. I had established the Interfaith Project with the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy center at James Cook University, worked …

Annual reports

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