The Vilnius Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium is inviting former students to a meeting-evening to take place at 6:00 P.M. on Friday, December 11. We’ll catch up with old friends we’ve missed, have some food and listen to live music. Come join us.
Sincerely,
Your principal and teachers
European and Lithuanian Jewish Youth (Work, Projects, Vision)
Amit Belaitė
Participation in a photo project about Jews living in Lithuania now. If you have an interesting historical photograph or an item important to you, bring it along (but not more than three items, please).
12 noon, Sunday, November 22 in the Jascha Heifetz Hall on the 3rd floor of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo No. 4, Vilnius
with Rabbi Efraim Priyampolski and his family
Sunday, November 22, 2015
The weekly Vaishlakh
4:00 P.M. Lesson: “Three Sources, Three Ingredients…” (with Rabbi Efraim)
5:00 P.M. Children’s Hour. Let’s learn about Kiddush haShem (Yitzhok and Tsofochka)
6:00 P.M. Lesson “Hanukkah in the Talmud”/free discussion (Rabbi Efraim)
7:00 P.M. Lesson for women: “What is a Lie?” (Devora)
8:00 P.M. We say goodbye, but we remain together
To be held at the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius.
Everyone is invited to begin the Sabbath with the Gesher Club this Friday, November 20, at 7:00 P.M.
Come and meet friends, and bring your board games!
For more information, call Alla Segal at 861061812 or Irina Frišman at 868687580.
We look forward to seeing you there!
to a free screening of the film “Dėdė Chackelis” [“Uncle Chatskel”]
Registration required. Send your full name and telephone number and the full names of any companion you intend to bring by email to atamuleviciutes@gmail.com
The screening is to take place at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, November 18 at the Jewish Culture and Information Center located at Mėsinių street No. 3A/5 in Vilnius.
Dėdė Chackelis (1999) is a documentary film by Litvak Rod Freedman about Chackelis Lemchenas, one of Lithuania’s most famous linguists whom Jonas Jablonskis called his best student. This fact helped save him from Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrators.
to donate clothes, books and items
The Lithuanian Jewish Student Union and the Social Center of the Lithuanian Jewish Community invite you to join the campaign and share the clean and neat clothes you no longer wear, books and items to the Social Center for distribution to the needy. You may leave clothes in the bins next to the guard inside the entrance of the Community building or contact amit.belaite@gmail.com
to participate in a photography project
Very soon we will begin a photography project to document the stories of Jews living in Lithuania today. If you’d like to be part of it and have the time at your convenience to have and receive a professional photographic portrait and tell your story, write an email to amit.belaite@gmail.com with PHOTO PROJECT in the subject line, and please include alternate ways to contact you.
The annual winter camp for kids and adolescents aged 7 to 17 is scheduled for December 24-30. Make sure to register early at the Lithuanian Jewish Community from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
For more information call +37068542463 or +37069920212 during working hours.
Screening of the film “Sudie, Lietuvos Jeruzale” [“Farewell, Jerusalem of Lithuania”] and meeting with the director, Saulius Beržinis.
12 noon, November 15
This year marks 150 years since the birth and 85 years since the death of Dr. Meir.
A ceremony to honor the memory of Dr. Shakhnel Avrahom Meir will be held in Panevėžys, Lithuania on November 13, the famous Lithuania doctor’s hometown.
He studied medicine at Moscow University and began his medical practice in Chernigov guberniya in the Ukraine before returning to Lithuania in 1891, where he first set up practice in Pasvalys and then moved back to Panevėžys in 1914. He had a reputation for selflessness and devoted all his time and energy to healing everyone who needed help. He improved his skills by working in clinics abroad and kept up with the latest advances in medicine, applying them at home. The Jewish Hospital was built and opened in Panevėžys in 1919 on his initiative. It served people of all ethnicities.
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, the Germany Embassy and the Goethe Institut in Lithuania warmly invite you to celebrate International Tolerance Day this November 16 by attending a screening of Hanna’s Journey (2013), a film by Julia von Heinz, at 5:30 P.M., Monday, November 16 at the Tolerance Center at Naugarduko street no. 10/2 in Vilnius.
The film runs for 100 minutes. The film is in English, German and Hebrew, to be shown with Lithuanian subtitles. Entry is free to the general public.
from IMDB: “A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.”
Dear friends,
You’re invited to the Mini-Limmud educational conference on Judaism December 11-13 at the Vilnius Grand Resort hotel.
Mini-Limmud is and includes:
● Three days of meeting and talking with friends and the like-minded;
● The best speakers from the Baltics, Israel, Russia and elsewhere;
● A special program for children;
● An unforgettable Hanukkah evening with special performers.
Dear members of the community,
Yitzhak Navon, who served as the 5th President of the State of Israel from 1978 to 1983, passed away on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at the age of 94. His funeral took place on Sunday, November 08, 2015 on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem.
Through the years Navon combined public activity, political activity and writing, which centered mostly on preserving the cultural heritage of Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewry. In 1978 he was elected to serve as the fifth President of the State of Israel. He served in office until 1983.
During his Presidency, he strove to act as a bridge between Israel’s ethnic groups, religious and secular, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, left and right, Jews and Arabs and to allay high tensions following the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the Sinai Peninsula pursuant to the peace agreement with Egypt.
J. Greisman, “Curses, the Evil Eye and Porcha (Instilling Fear) in Judaism”
12 noon, Sunday, November 8, 2015
Lecture to be held in Lithuanian in the Jascha Heifetz Hall, third floor, Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo street No. 4, Vilnius
The Lithuanian Jewish Community express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the victims of flight 9268 on Kogalymavia Airlines and to all the Russian people. We are with you in our hearts and minds.
Job announcement aimed primarily at LJC members and their family members
Duties:
Coordinating youth counselor and youth volunteer work.
Initiating new programs for Jewish young people.
Encouraging participation by youth at all Jewish community events, including educational events, volunteer activities and etc.
Preparation of monthly reports and plans for the youth programs.
Work with the regional Jewish communities.
Requirements:
Experience working with young people.
Knowledge of Jewish history and traditions.
Enthusiasm, communications skills, striving for the best results.
Good organizational skills.
Good computer skills.
Driver’s license and private automobile.
Knowledge of Lithuanian, English and Russian.
Work experience at Jewish organizations would be a plus.
Please contact us with your CV and a motivational cover-letter at:
valentin.baltija@gmail.com
Dear Lithuanian Jewish Community members and friends,
We are happy to announce the much-loved traditional Jewish culture conference Mini Limmud will take place from December 11 to 13 this year.
Stay tuned for further information.
The LJC Social Center is seeking a personnel administrator for the home care department. Please send your CV to Social Center director Simas Levin at simas@sc.lzb.lt
You’re invited to attend Rabbi Klev Krelin’s lecture “Weekly Torah Selection: Abraham and His Sons. Jews and Arabs” at 6:00 P.M. on October 27 at the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius.
Can Lithuania consider itself a competitive state in the Baltic region and the EU today? What do international corporations perceive as our strengths and weaknesses?
Investors and political party representatives will address these and other questions, share insights on the education and tax systems, labor relations, infrastructure, Lithuanian accessibility and other topics, and present Lithuania’s standing on the investor confidence index.
Lithuanian parliamentary speaker Loreta Graužinienė will open the event.
Time: 1:00-3:30 P.M.
Date: October 28, 2015
Location: Conference Center, Building III, Lithuanian parliament
Please register by October 25: http://bit.ly/1R26y9V
Investors’ Forum
Totorių 5-21, LT-01121, Vilnius
The Kaunas Jewish Community plans to mark the 74th anniversary of the Great Action at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas at 12 noon on October 25, 2015.
Let’s remember and honor the memory of the victims.
The Large Action was the mass murder operation on October 28 and 29, 1941, during which about 10,000 people were murdered at the Ninth Fort in a single twenty-four hour period, including about 4,300 children.
This weekend we will host the following programs :
KNAFAIM – Friday 18:30 P.M. We are taking teens for a special event to Labirinthus (see https://www.facebook.com/labyrinthusgame) and we will celebrate Sabbath there.
ILAN – Sunday at 3.00 P.M. Kids will have a peula on the topic of Jewish values. At about 4:30 P.M. there will be a quiz. Havdala ceremony and story at around 5.30 P.M.
Training for camp and club counselors – Sunday 12 noon. Around 20 young leaders will gather
to acquire more knowledge on Jewish topics.