Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the Vilnius Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium on International Teacher’s Day. She toured one of the newest schools in Lithuania and chatted with teachers and students. There are 352 students there from Jewish, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish and American families. The language of instruction is Lithuanian and Hebrew is taught.
“What students discover at school remains with them their entire lives,” she said. She called the school one of the best in Vilnius and Lithuania. It was originally established in 1989 at a kindergarten facility in the Viršuliškės suburb of Vilnius. In 2013 the school acquired new premises in the Žvėrynas neighborhood and was renamed the Vilnius Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium.