"I'm trying to model how you can actually have a legitimate critique of Israel that cuts deep, but is ultimately about inducing behavioural change." Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib Watch the full discussion on our free JLF Video Player: shorturl.at/VID25

🎭 Meet our 2026/27 Jewish Playwrights Programme cohort! Welcoming Kayla Feldman, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, Kali Klein-Hughes, Dylan Zwickel, Thom Munden, Alexandra Hart, Eliana Ostro and Esther Caplin, mentored by Julia Pascal. 🔗 Find out more: shorturl.at/TzC7J

Our JLF Player is where you can find free talks and debates across literature, history, culture, science and more. Enjoy this week's releases: | Jonathan Miller: Drama and Perception | Hadley Freeman: Good Girls | Surviving Mengele's Auschwitz 🔗 shorturl.at/SvRkP

Raffaello Morales on Mahler's relationship to his Jewishness, who will be joined by @seckerson and Anthony Freud OBE in conversation, followed by a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 from @Fideliocaf 📆 8 Nov, @BarbicanCentre, 5.45pm shorturl.at/59yOK

🎵 Ahead of our upcoming event 'Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond', watch these latest new releases on our JLF Video Player: | Mahler & Freud: A Viennese Encounter | Music of Exile | Mahler and His Faith @NLebrecht 🔗 shorturl.at/SvRkP

For our Book of the Month we've got an incredible debut novel for you - 'Venus, Vanishing' by Rebecca Birrell. Read the prologue and Rebecca's special note on why she chose to write the book: shorturl.at/Qne7e

📽️ Watch now on our free JLF Video Player: | Hamas and its Two Million Hostages with @afalkhatib | Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes | Craig Brown: A Voyage around the Queen | Boy from the North Country 🔗 shorturl.at/SvRkP

Join us for 'Translation Salon: Kafkaesque' in partnership with @TheLondonLib. Daniel Hahn and Maïa Hruska, author of Kafkaesque, will explore the translators who saved the work of Franz Kafka from oblivion. 📆 5 November, The London Library, 7pm 🔗shorturl.at/RXEAm

Meet our new cohort for the 2026/27 @Genesis_Fndn Emerging Writers Programme! With projects exploring Black British, Yiddish and Chinese heritage and settings spanning wartime Wales to millennial Türkiye, this is our most wide-ranging cohort yet. shorturl.at/mDLaa

Join author Will Self in conversation with Forum Chief Exec Chris Gribble about his career, his latest novel The Quantity Theory of Morality, and reflections on Jewishness and antisemitism. 📆 10 November, @JW3London, 7pm 🔗 Book now:

"When I began writing The Nuremberg Women, I thought I was writing about a trial. The deeper I went, the more I realised I was writing about hope...the belief that we can still choose truth over lies..." - Natalie Livingstone. Explore the book: shorturl.at/LmS9J

Ahead of our upcoming event 'Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond', enjoy this stunning performance of Mahler's Rückert Lieder by acclaimed soprano @ChenReiss at JBW 2026. 📆 8 Nov, Barbican Centre, 5.45pm shorturl.at/59yOK @seckerson @Fideliocaf

Reading and learning have long had a place beside prayer on Yom Kippur. For many of us, Jewish books and ideas give us time to think about how we live and what our tradition asks of us. Wishing all those observing an easy and meaningful fast. G’mar Chatima Tova.

NEW EVENT: October 7 in Graphic Novels 🗓️ Mon 13 Oct | 6:30pm | 💻 Online | Free Cartoonist Asaf Hanuka @RealistComics and writer, actor Omri Rose and Jonathan Sandler @jsandler1978 discuss turning testimony into graphic narrative. Register now: shorturl.at/MppyM

For Rosh Hashanah, w've chosen three JLF Player films which take us through questions of faith, Jewish history and a world of Jewish learning. | Faith after October 7 |The Jewish Journey: 4,000 Years in 22 Objects |Yeshiva Days Shana Tova U’Metuka! shorturl.at/SvRkP

Can you guess from the photo what our next tour has in store? We'll take to the West End for a tour of Jewish Theatreland, following the trail of Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers who shaped British theatre. 📅 24 Sep, 2:30pm 🎟 shorturl.at/M6aLO

September's Book of the Month is the enthralling 'The Nuremberg Women' by @NatLivingstone - retelling the trial of the century through the women whose roles have long been overlooked. Read an exclusive preview and a dedicated note from the author: shorturl.at/LmS9J

READING RETREAT - 2 rooms left - and 1 month to go! Join us in Bath for three days of books and good company, including a very special dinner with Howard Jacobson, literary sessions with Aviva Dautch, and two nights at the Queensberry Hotel. Book now: shorturl.at/1kEkH