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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 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.
Is Dialogue Enough?
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?
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.