The Prayers in Synagogue

The prayers in the Vilnius Choral synagogue (Pylimo str. 39, Vilnius). Monday-Friday: 8.30 Shaharis and 18.00. Mincha, Maariv. Saturday: Schabbes services start at 10.00. Sunday: 9.00 Shaharis and 18.00. Mincha, Maariv.

The trip to Lithuania

If you are planning a visit to Lithuania, please let us know and we will gladly assist you in providing all the needed information. Many people know about the glorious past of the Lithuanian Jews, horrible tragedy during the years of Holocaust. You can contact us via e-mail \n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +370 5 2613003. Waiting for meeting you in Lita!

Seminar on Judaism with Michael Gitik

We invite you to attend two days of lessons by Rabbi Machael Gitik from Israel on May 18 and 19 at the Lithuanian Jewish Community building at Pylimo 4, Vilnius. You may register until May 14 by telephone during working hours by calling 8 652 11723. The cost for attending is 20 litas.

Regular Flights to Tel Aviv

Regular direct flights between Tel Aviv and Vilnius will start up in April of 2012. The Israeli aviation company Sun d’Or has announced they will make regular direct flights between Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion and Vilnius International Airport in cooperation with the Israeli national air carrier El Al . They plan to fly once a week from Vilnius to Tel Aviv on Wednesdays. Arrival to Vilnius will be at 9:50 AM and departure from Vilnius at 11:15 AM. The flight to Tel Aviv takes about 4 hours and 20 minutes.

News

Community’s “Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle” Starts its 13th Year!

Details: Created on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:29

Part of the Jewish Community’s Yiddish Reading Circle on Monday 14 November 2011In September 1999, Professor Dovid Katz, in partnership with the Jewish Community of Lithuania, launched the weekly “Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle”, in the tradition of the classic Yiddish léyenkrayz, conducted entirely in Yiddish, and dedicated to reading and discussing serious works of Yiddish literature.
For some years the circle was moved to Vilnius University and then, in 2008, back to its original home ― the seminar room of the Jewish Community, at Pylimo 4, on the street fabled in Yiddish lore az Zaválne gas.
For many years, Professor Katz’s co-chairman was Dr. Izraelis Lempertas, the academic advisor to the Jewish community. For several years, Dr. Lempertas has been unable to attend because of health reasons. The members wish him full recovery and hope to see him again soon.
In 2005, when one of the circle’s most beloved founding members, Dr. Sheine Sideraite, passed away, the circle was renamed the Dr . Sheine Sideraite Vilna Yiddish Writing Circle.
Last Monday, 14 November 2011, its 13th year was launched. The youngest person to attend was 22, the oldest - 88.
As has become traditional, the session starts with two pages from Avrom Sklarin’s classic 1958 compendium of Yiddish humor, Toyznt un eyns, and then proceeds to the week’s chosen text, which is this season a series of selections from Sholem Aleichem.
Over the years, many Litvak authors have been studied, including Chaim Grade, Avrom Karpinovitsh, Meyshe Kulbak, Zalmen Shneyer, and Avrom Sutzkever.
The reading circle continues this session each Tuesday at 2 PM (14.00 sharp) in the seminar room of the Jewish Community of Lithuania at Pylimo 4.

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21.03 18 May 2012
22.35 19 May 2012
21.14 25 May 2012
22.46 26 May 2012
21.24 1 June 2012
22.56 2 June 2012

Mazl tov!

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Events

The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and the Embassy of Israel to Latvia and Lithuania invite you to the lecture-dialogue “Saadia Bahat: Life and Art”. The lecture of the Israeli sculptor Saadia Bahat will take place on Tuesday, the 8thof May, 2012, at 4.30 p.m., at the Tolerance Center (Naugarduko Str.10/2, Vilnius). Saadia Bahat (Bokšickis) wasborn in 1928, in Alytus, Lithuania. During the years of WWII he survived the Vilnius Ghetto and the several Nazi concentration camps. Bahat was among the first ones who left to Palestine right after the war and was fighting for the statehood of Israel in 1948. Choosing engineering as the main career, he was greatly interested in art all his life and was creating the exclusives culptures. His works of art were awarded with the Hermann Struck (the establisher of Tel Aviv Museum of Art) Award and the other prizes, also were presented in the individual and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad (Japan, Austria, France, Italy, USA, Vietnam).

On the 9th of May Bahat’s sculpture exhibition “After 69 Years” will be opened at “Arka” art gallery. 69 years ago Bahat was expelled from Vilnius and had to survive the repressions of Holocaust. This year he comes back as the famous Israeli artist, who did not forget his Lithuanian roots. In his lecture at the Tolerance Center creator will tell about his art works and will present his individual abstract art sculptures.

Lecture-dialogue will be in English language. Free entrance.