EJT celebrates two months of work and achievements

This autumn we successfully launched the European Jewish Times–an independent online platform which provides fresh and interesting stories to European Jewry. We wanted to thank you for the amazing cooperation during these months! EJT constantly receives your press releases, updates and feedback which help us to evolve and create the best possible content for you at all times. Currently Jewish communities are facing several new challenges, however, and we should all stand together in confronting them.

Recently European Jewish communities have watched with worry an unprecedented rise in anti-Semitic public discourse as well as actual physical threats to communities. Since global media avoid real coverage of this issue, we decided to launch The JWatch Project, a new platform aimed at giving a voice to fellow Jews who are under attack.

As part of the JWatch Project, our channels are open for your live reports of anti-Semitic incidents from anywhere in Europe which we will report immediately for the benefit of our many followers and readers in an effort to expose the scope of this troubling phenomenon and to put a stop to it.

In addition, we are preparing for a turning point in Jewish leadership at the end of January when the European Jewish Congress (EJC) will re-elect its president. We look forward to the upcoming events and will report them to you live. We hope for a change following this event.

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Dear friends and colleagues,

The Embassy of Israel invites you to a fun martial arts event on Sunday, January 17, including training by masters of krav maga and karate.

“Learn from the Masters!” is a public event open to everyone without regard to physical condition, age or profession.

You will have the opportunity to meet the masters of krav maga and karate in Lithuania, who will present the philosophies of these martial arts and provide practical group training.

The Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Rositsan and Maccabi Elite Chess and Checkers Club invite you to a chess tournament dedicated to the memory of Dr. Mykolas Sakalinskas at 11:00 A.M. on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo street no. 4, Vilnius

Tournament director: FIDE master Boris Rositsan

For further information and to register, contact:

email: info@metbor.lt
telephone: +370 655 43556

The Goodwill Fund and the Lithuanian Jewish Community are pleased to invite you to the opening of an exhibit of photographs by Irena Giedraitienė called “Echoes of Memory.” The exhibit and accompanying photo album contain portraits from Lithuanian and foreign ghettos and concentration camps and the photo album contains a retrospective of Giedraitienė’s works.

The exhibit and opening are dedicated to honoring and commemorating members of the Union of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Victims. The opening ceremony is to include speakers retelling their stories of dramatic survival.

“I wanted to record those who survived the ghettos and concentration camps as quickly as possible while we are still alive. I hope this exhibit and album will honor the survivors, and serve as a symbolic commemoration,” Giedraitienė said.

The Mini Limmud 2015 Judaism conference will take place on December 11 to 13, 2015, at the Vilnius Grand Resort Hotel.

Mini Limmud is three days of meaningful meetings with friends and the like-minded with the very best speakers from the Baltic states, Israel, Russia and other countries. It includes a special program for children. There will also be an evening Hanukkah celebration with special performers!

Registration and Ticket Sales

Registration took place in November. Please contact project coordinator Žana Skudovičienė, telephone +37067881514 and email zanas@sc.lzb.lt, to find out if there are still spaces available. Tickets cost 85 euros for adults, children aged 0 to 5 get in free, tickets for children aged 5-13 cost 25 euros and adults who don’t need the hotel stay can buy tickets for 60 euros, provided there are still places available.

Limmud program in Russian here.

Fifty of the famous modernist’s works are on display at the Kaunas regional museum until New Year’s. The artist became interested in lithography in Berlin in 1920, learning the art under the tutelage of the German artist Hermann Struck. Chagall, who worked under a whole series of names, was born into a Jewish family in Vitebsk, now in Belarus. In 1922 the family fled Bolshevik rule, first resettling in Lithuania, and then Germany and France. During World War II Marc Chagall escaped the Holocaust in America, but returned to France after the war. He died on March 28, 2005 as he was ascending to his studio in an elevator. The motif of flight is integral to Chagall’s work. Members of the Kaunas Jewish Community attended the exhibition.

You are cordially invited to the 22nd gathering in the “Destinies” series with one of Lithuania’s best known contemporary composers and winner of the National Prize

Anatolijus Šenderovas

The program includes:

A selection from the Lithuanian Radio and Television program Legends about Šenderovas’s work
A concert of works by Šenderovas

You’re invited to a special Hanukkah celebration at the Vilnius Grand Resort Hotel
at 6:00 P.M. on December 12, 2015.

A warm Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony and a wonderful evening of celebration await you! Musical guests from Israel Uri Zer and Gala and Sergei Libenstein will perform a special program.

Tickets: 15 euros for adults, 10 euros for children 15 and under.

Tickets can be bought workdays from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. in the White Hall of the Lithuanian Jewish Community from November 26 till December 7.

For further information call 8 678 81514