Social center

The Lithuanian Jewish Student Union Invites You

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.

Knafaim and Ilan Clubs to Meet

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.

Jewish Family Service Attends Theater Performance

On Saturday, September 26, the Jewish Family Service of the Lithuanian Jewish Community’s Social Center took children and their parents to the Lėlė Theater, originally established as a theater in the Vilnius ghetto by Jewish intellectuals, to watch a play called “The Tale of a Turtle,” which was surprisingly funny for both the kids and their parents. The event was intended to mark the holiday of Sukkot. Twenty-five people attended the event which was free of charge and funded by the Goodwill Fund. The theater also chipped in and provided us several tickets free of charge, for which we are very grateful. The parents and children had a wonderful time and were quite thankful as well. Coordinator Rašelė Šeraitė is planning many more such events for the families to allow them to spend quality time together and share fond memories later.

Jewish Family Service party

Jewish Family Service party

On Sunday, September 13, just before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Family Service of the Social Center at the Lithuanian Jewish Community hosted a holiday activities event for children. Children with their parents’ help painted Rosh Hashanah symbols and New Year’s greetings on silk. There were also traditional holiday treats. About 30 people attended, including parents and children of different ages.

Anniversary Celebration of the Abi Men Zet Zich Club

Anniversary Celebration of the Abi Men Zet Zich Club

On May 12 the senior citizens club Abi Men Zet Zich (Yiddish for “as long as we’re together”) celebrated the club’s birthday at the Jasche Heifetz hall of the Lithuanian Jewish Community.

Seventeen years ago elderly Litvaks met to see old friends, share Jewish happiness and sorrow and formed the club which continues today.

The seniors celebrated the club’s anniversary with a dramatic musical presentation called “Amol in Pilimovke…” (“Once on Pylimo…”). The performance was a highly entertaining, imaginative and sincere musical drama which was received well by the audience.

There was no lack of warm wishes for the future and food at the birthday party, and there was a large birthday cake as well.

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