Among the evacuees pulled from Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover last autumn were the last of Afghanistan's Jewish community. Join us to explore the Jewish history and culture of this turbulent country, as covered in our latest issue. Guests include Ziva Ambalo, whose family fled Afghanistan for London during the Soviet occupation of the country in 1981; Suhrab Sirat, a recent Afghan refugee and BBC World Service journalist and poet, whose literary co-translator is JR’s executive director Dr Aviva Dautch; archaeologist Ulrike-Christiane Lintz, an expert on Afghan synagogue buildings; Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States; and Yotam Polizer, the CEO of IsraAid, who helped organise last year's evacuation of Afghanistan’s female cycling and robotics teams from the country.
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Free
JR has an ethical ticketing policy and is offering free tickets to this event, but if you can afford it, please donate to support our work. We are proposing denominations of 18 – the numerical value of the Hebrew word 'chai', meaning 'life'.