An exhibition of the famous Israeli photographer Zif Koren pictures is opened in Vilnius city municipality.
Join LJC Seder in Vilnius
The Lithuanian Jewish Community, the Vilnius Jewish Community and the
Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium send their greetings out to everyone on this
Passover and
invite YOU to a Seder
to begin at 6:00 P.M., April 3, 2015
at the Radisson Blue Hotel Lietuva at Konstitucijos no. 20 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Alanas Levinas will be master of cermemonies with performances by the
students of Sholem Aleichem and the Fayerlakh ensemble.
You may buy tickets from Julija Lipšic in room 206 at the LJC at Pylimo 4
in Vilnius, telephone 8 659 52 604, and from Ruth Reches, Hebrew teacher
at the Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium, by contacting her by telephone at 8
686 89 530.
Tickets for adults are 15 euros and for children aged 3-15 just 10 euros.
Tickets will be on sale from March 23 till March 31 exclusively.
The number of tickets is limited!
JCL Purim
You are invited to the Vilnius Choral Synagogue for Purim, including
readings from the Book of Esther.
Wednesday, March 4: Fast of Esther from the morning till 6:44 P.M.
Evening prayer and reading from the Book of Esther: 6:44 P.M.
Thursday, March 5: Morning prayer and reading from Book of Esther at 8:30 A.M.
Invitation to the concert
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Opening ceremony
Opening ceremony of the monument dedicated to
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, z”l ( 1864 – November 17, 1939)
November 26, 2014 at 14:30
Vilnius Old Jewish Cemetery (Olandu Str.)
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
Exibit dedicated to 100 years of the Joint Distribution Committee’s work in Panevėžys (Ponevezh) and Lithuania.
The exhibit, to open on November 6, 2014, at Respublikos street No. 14 in Panevėžys, includes photographs and documents from the Lithuanian Central Archive and the Panevėžys archive detailing and documenting the Jewish American charity’s work. It also includes photographs and documents from the Joint’s own archive, the City of Panevėžys’s Jewish Archive, the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Panevėžys Regional History Museum archive.
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International Tolerance Day
The Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, together with other institutions, this year will celebrate International Tolerance Day, which was included on the UNESCO list of international days of commemoration in 1995 (16 November). The other institutions that will take part in the commemorative events are the Embassy of Poland in Vilnius, Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters, and the Polish Institute in Vilnius.
The exhibition“Jan Karski. Man of Freedom” will be opened on the 13th of November, 2014, at 5.00 p.m. in the Tolerance Center (Naugarduko Str. 10/2, Vilnius). Zygmunt Stępiński, deputy director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN), and Lena Dąbkowska-Cichocka, POLIN representative on the strategic development questions, will take part in the opening ceremony. The finalists of Citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, a competition for school students attending comprehensive schools in Vilnius district will also be awarded during this event. After the official part, we invite you to the concert of the Reszów Klezmer Band as a celebration of tolerance.
Please be so kind and print out the attached invitation before coming to our event.
Mini Limmud Program 2014, Birstonas
Invitation to the film screening
Dear Friends, You are kindly invited to a film
THE LESSONS OF SURVIVAL. CONVERSATIONS WITH SIMON WIESENTHAL
screening to be held in Vilnius Jewish Public Library (Gedimino pr. 24, Vilnius) on October 28 at 5 PM.
The program also includes meeting the film creator INNA ROGATCHI
Invited speakres:
Prof. Irena Veisaitė and Mr. Darius Degutis – the Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Israel in 2009-2014.
The film THE LESSONS OF SURVIVAL. CONVERSATIONS WITH SIMON WIESENTHAL was released at the end of 2013, and was successfully shown at important European public events. Its European premiere was at the European Parliament in January 2014 commemorating the International Holocaust and Remembrance Day. In March 2014, the film was shown at a special screening and discussion event at the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament).
In April 2014, The Israeli National News, in a profile written by Rochel Sylvetsky, described the film in the following way:
“Inna Rogatchi’s new film Lessons of Survival is the riveting film documentary on her never-before publicized conversations with the larger-than-life Nazi hunter as well as her own research into fascinating stories and facts about the Holocaust. Inna Rogatchi, too, is larger-than-life, and the noble role filled by the Rogatchi family in so many spheres is an example that is difficult to emulate”.
RSVP by e-mail to info@vilnius-jewish-public-library.com or by calling (8 5) 219 77 48
Sincerely,
Žilvinas Beliauskas
Head of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library
Czech movie “All My Loved Ones”
Following the tradition of the Czech film-evenings at the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Tolerance Center are cordially inviting you to a projection of a Czech movie “All My Loved Ones”
( “Všichni moji blízcí”, Czech Republic, 1999, 91 min., with EN subtitles)
taking place on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 5.30 p.m.
at Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Naugarduko g. 10/2, Vilnius.
„All My Loved Ones“ is a poetic story about unbelievable Sir Nicolas Winton‘s act of kindness – saving 644 Jewish children from death. The movie will be introduced by H. E. Bohumil Mazánek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Lithuania.
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The Vilnius Jewish Community and the Vilnius Religious Jewish Community
INVITE YOU
at 6:00 P.M. on September 24 to attend at the Vilnius Choral Synagogue a celebration of
ROSH HA’SHANA
Program:
Quorum Ensemble (directed by Vitaly Neugasimov) performing passages of Jewish cantorial music.
Synagogue cantor Shmuel Yatom performing passages of Chazanut dedicated to the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
Holiday greetings from Lithuanian Jewish Community chair Faina Kukliansky and chief Lithuanian rabbi Chaim Burshtein.
The event will begin with a short prayer.
There will be traditional Rosh Hashana food and free calendars for those who want them.
The event is scheduled to last from 6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
You’re invited to the concert “The Soul Never Rests”
7:00 P.M., September 23, 2014
St. Catherine’s Church
Admission is free.
There are certain pages of history you can never hide, pages important to the future generations as well as those of the present and past. One of these is the Holocaust.
We mark the Day of the Genocide of the Jews of Lithuania on September 23. On this occasion the Jewish Cultural and Information Center and the Vilnius municipal choir Jauna Muzika [Young Music] invite you to come and remember those who were part of our society, whose work, creativity and visions were ruthlessly exterminated. It is difficult to comprehend who we would be today if this hadn’t happened, and how our country and each of our lives have changed.
Ronen Borshevsky of Israel prepared the concert program. It includes a cappella choral works by Jospeh Rheinberger, one of America’s most beloved composers currently; Eric Whitacre and Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun; a choral and piano composition by Gabriel Fauré; and the culmination of the program will be Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, performed by a young male soloist, a choir and an orchestra. The lyrics are taken from the Old Testament and will be performed in Hebrew and Latin.
The Vilnius municipal choir Jauna Muzika assisted by soloist discantus Dovydas Juozūnas of the Dagilėlis choir, harpist Joana Daunytė, Dainius Jozėnas on piano and Saulius Auglys doing percussion.
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Invitation to Shabbes celebration in Vilnius Choral Synagogue!
Lithuanian Union of Jewish Students are happy to invite you to Shabbes celebration in Vilnius Choral Synagogue!
Time: this Friday 12th of September. 19:00(please try not to be late)
Location: Choral synagogue (Pylimo street 39)
Program:
1. Meeting with our charismatic and wonderful Kantor who will tell us more about the synagogue, traditions and will try to answer all of your questions.
2. Unique possibility to see Shabbes celebration hear the prayer and maybe even join!
3. Will start registration to the future events and you’ll here more about them(f.e. event in the parliament where you’ll have to register in advance)
4. After everything we will have Shabbes dinner (inside the synagogue!) where we will have possibility to meet each other closer or meet absolutely new people.
Please register:
Amit.belaite@gmail.com or Tel.: 869227326
P.s. If you have your kipah bring it with yourself. Please don’t take pictures during the event
Program of events dedicated to commemorate the nationally designated day of genocide of the Jewish people of Lithuania
A special series of events dedicated to commemorate the nationally designated day of genocide of the Jewish people of Lithuania, with events set to commemorating also the liquidation of the Kaunas (Kovno) and Šiauliai (Shavl) ghettos as well as other important dates in Lithuanian Jewish history.
Wednesday 17 September
5.30 PM Diplomats of the Condemned – event to commemorate Jan Zwartendijk and Chiune Sugihara, honourable diplomats, who, endangering their careers and even life, saved Jews during WWII.
Enseble Orphic Trio from United Kingdom (Orpheus Papafilippou – violin, William Routledge – cello and Rimantas Vingras – piano), Music by Joseph Achron, Tōru Takemitsu and Dmitrij Shostakovich.
Organizators of the event – the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum together with London „Santara-Šviesa“ club.
Entrance by invitation only
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum Tolerance center, Naugarduko str. 10/2, Vilnius
Thursday 18 September
LJC is looking for partners
CALL FOR PARTNERS FOR A JEWISH BOOKS’ HERITAGE PROJECT!
The Lithuanian Jewish Community is looking for partners to implement a project, aimed at preserving and promoting the Lithuanian Jewish books’ heritage. The main goal of the project is to make a large collection of the Jewish books, present in Lithuania, more accessible to researchers as well as to the wider audience.
For more information you are very welcome to contact Zivile (zhivileh@hotmail.com).
Kind regards from Vilnius,
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
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