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WJC Seeking Interns

The World Jewish Congress are searching for two new interns to work with them at their Geneva office from February, 2016. Both internships last a minimum of 3 months.

– Internship in “Assisting the JDCorps Coordinator Europe, FSU Region, Israel and Africa”:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B42kDlSEIu6FZXZKVUJNcE5uczJiZnVyUlMyVW1xUDBaXzRj/view?usp=sharing

– Internship in “Assisting the UN Representative and JDCorps Policy Analyst”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B42kDlSEIu6Fdkp5UUEtbDF3YWpXbkN6ME9kd1RqQ1F3VWZj/view?usp=sharing

2016-02-01

Zionist Federation of Great Britain Staging Lobby Day for Israel on February 24th, 2016

Join hundreds of people from across the country who will be attending the ZF and Christian Friends of Israel Annual Lobby Day for Israel 2016. Held on February 24th, the Lobby Day gives Israel advocates the opportunity to meet with their MP and share their support for the Jewish state. During this time of heightened violence, it’s more important than ever to let our elected representatives know they have constituents who support Israel.

For further information, please see:
https://madmimi.com/p/08d037

2016-01-24

International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Choral Synagogue

We invite you to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at 3:00 P.M. on January 27 at the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius at Pylimo street no. 39.

There will be readings of the names of Holocaust victims, brief testimonies of survivors and a prayer for the dead.

January 27 was the date in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. On November 1, 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution making January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The resolution condemned Holocaust denial and discrimination and violence based on religion and ethnicity.

2016-01-24

Vilna Gaon Museum to Hold Three-Day Holocaust Seminar

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum is hosting three days of seminars on the Holocaust featuring a panel of speakers from Lithuania and Western Europe. Speakers are to include Philippe Boukara and Georges Bensoussan from Mémorial de la Shoah, the French co-sponsor of the event with the International Commission for the Assessment of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania from Lithuania.

The seminars are called “The Holocaust, Collaboration and Mass Murder in Lithuania” and will run from January 20 to January 22.

2016-01-19

Events to Mark Holocaust Day in Panevėžys at Noon, January 26

On November 1, 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization adopted a resolution to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. Remembering the Holocaust is inseparable from studying the causes of this tragedy which rocked civilization to its core and inseparable from teaching and inculcating tolerance and human respect. Lithuania is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and an active participant in international programs to fight anti-Semitism.

The mass murder of Jews began even before the Nazis occupied Lithuania in 1941. Over a few months the majority of the Lithuanian Jewish community were murdered. Survivors were sent as slave labor to the ghettos set up in the cities and towns. The Nazis “liquidated” most of the ghettos after a few short months while the remaining ghettos in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai operated for another two to three years. The Vilnius ghetto was liquidated on September 23, 1943. Most of the inhabitants were shot to death at Ponar while others were transferred to concentration camps. The Panevėžys ghetto was liquidated on August 15, 1941. Thirteen and a half thousand Jews were shot. More than 200,000 Jews were murdered in Lithuania during World War II, accounting for approximately 95 percent of the Lithuanian Jewish community. There are more than 200 mass murder sites in Lithuania and about the same number of old Jewish cemeteries.

The Jewish community in Lithuania formed near the end of the 14th century. They were a thriving ethnic community in Lithuanian towns and cities by the beginning of the 20th century. In the period between the last half of the 19th and early 20th century, Jews accounted for between a quarter and a half of the population in many cities and towns. They were citizens of Lithuania with their own individual daily cares, worries and joys. Compared to other ethnic communities, the Jewish community was one of the largest in Lithuania.

2016-01-19

Houses That Talk: A Book about Vokiečių Street in Vilnius

You’re invited to the presentation of the book “Houses That Talk: Sketches of Vokiečių Street in the Nineteenth Century” by Dr, Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė at 6:00 P.M., January 22, at the Jewish Culture and Information Street at Mėsinių street no. 3 in Vilnius.

The book provides a picture of the commercial life of the street in the 19th century. It details in English and Lithuania the history of 32 former buildings on the street, their owners and the commercial enterprises which operated in them. There is a presentation of stores and store owners and goods, banks and other businesses. The book is full of photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century.

The author and Sigita Pūkienė, director of the publishing house Aukso žuvys, are scheduled to attend the event.

2016-01-18

Kaunas Jewish Community Invites You to a Concert

Location: Great Hall, Vytautas Magnus University, Gimnazijos street No. 7
Time: 3:00 P.M., January 17, 2016

The Kaunas Jewish Community and the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life” have the pleasure of requesting your attendance at a concert. The concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladas Varčikas will feature his students, including:

professor Petras Kunca (violin),Vilija Vitkutė Pranskienė (violin), Kristijonas Venslovas (violin), Daiva Valentaitė (alto), Andrius Pleškūnas (alto), Benas Ulevičius (vocals, guitar),

2016-01-15

European Jewish World Steps into a New Era

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.

http://www.ejtimes.org/

2016-01-12

Learn Krav Maga at the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius

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.

2016-01-08

Chess Tournament Dedicated to Dr. Mykolas Sakalinskas

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

2016-01-07

Echoes of Memory Photo Exhibit

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.

2016-01-07

Opening of Exhibition of Litvak Art Accompanied by Music Performed by Levickis

The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum unveiled a new art exhibit December 16 called “Shalom Israel! Litvak Artists.” The show includes 37 works by 24 Litvak artists from the museum’s collections, the Lewben Art Foundation, the Lithuanian Exiles Art Fund, the attorney’s office Valiunas Ellex and other private collections. One of the more surprising items at the opening was a musical presentation by Martynas Levickis, accordion player and one of Lithuania’s most famous virtuosos. Levickis performed works by Paganini, Rossini and Vivaldi.

Deputy museum director Dr. Kamilė Rupeikaitė welcomed guests to the event and Valiunas Ellex director Rolandas Valiūnas, Lewben Art Foundation director Indrė Tubinienė and Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris spoke. Zingeris said Litvak artists kept putting Lithuania on the map even when the country was occupied and acted as Lithuanian ambassadors to the world. He said their Lithuanian origins were indicated next to their works at the most famous galleries everywhere.

Art history expert and curator Dr. Vilma Gradinskaitė presented the idea behind the exhibit and pointed out that almost all of the works on exhibit were being shown publicly for the first time. Two contemporary artists, R. Savickas and A. Jacovskytė, even created works especially for this exhibition. Dr. Gradinskaitė said: “Some of the paintings and graphics works, drawing and medals executed in various styles reveal a dual process in the development of Jewish art and demonstrate how Litvak artists shaped Israeli art, as well as how Israel’s natural environment and local folk-art traditions affected the artistic expression of Litvak artists, including scenery, manner of painting, color palette and mood.”

2015-12-17

Lithuanian Jewish Community Student Union Invites You to a Quiz

You’re invited to a quiz moderated by Rachmilas Garberis at 6:00 P.M. on Sunday, December 20 at the Lithuanian Jewish Community located at Pylimo street No. 4 in Vilnius. Good company and prizes are promised! Each contestant should register individually and teams will be formed at the event. No need to worry about language, either, the questions will be mainly musical and visual, and there will be plenty of people on hand fluent in a variety of languages.

Please register by sending an email to amit.belaite@gmail.com

See you there!

2015-12-17

Vilnius Yiddish Institute Announces Summer Program for 2016

The Vilnius Yiddish Institute at the Vilnius University announces the Vilnius Yiddish Summer Program for 2016 to take place from July 17 to August 12, 2016, and offering four levels of intensive language instruction for beginners, intermediate, higher intermediate and advanced students.

For more information please contact Indrė Joffytė, program coordinator: info@judaicvilnius.com

http://judaicvilnius.com/

Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Universiteto g. 7
Vilnius 01513
Lithuania

2015-12-17

A Disappearing Legacy: The Architecture of Wooden Synagogues

The Jewish Culture and Information Center’s Shofar Gallery (Mėsinių g. 3a/5, Vilnius) will host an exhibition of three-dimensional architectural models called “A Disappearing Legacy: The Architecture of Wooden Synagogues” opening at 6:00 P.M. on Friday, December 18, 2015.

The cultural heritage educational project was the unique idea of the architect Aurimas Širvys. Protection and adaptation of wooden synagogues is one of the most urgent problems in wooden-building heritage protection. This project will attempt to bring public attention to the documentation of wooden heritage using the latest computer modeling tools and to present non-invasive techniques for restoring damaged heritage sites.

2015-12-16

LJC is looking for partnerships in EC project

Call for proposals: Action grants to support transnational projects to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance – JUST/2015/RRAC/AG

The deadline for this call for proposals is 18/02/2016 12:00 (noon) CET.

Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community in Vilnius, Lithuania – is non profit organization expanding its activities and seeks for partnerships under the call Action grants to support transnational projects to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance.

We would like to share our experience in the field of prevention and monitoring and also looking for organization across EU that are experts in this field. We would join the project or agree to become a coordinating institution.

The proposals under this call shall focus on the priorities described below:

2.1 Best practices to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance (BEST)
2.2 Training and capacity building for strengthening criminal responses to hate crime and hate speech (TRAI)
3 Empowering and supporting victims of hate crime and hate speech (VICT)

Our goal: We would like to share and expand our experience in the field of 2.1 (BEST) as we have developed and maintain The Bagel Shop social campaign aimed to promote tolerance, prevent and combat anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred in Lithuanian society. Interconnected educational, awareness raising and empowerment initiatives take place in Lithuania promoting multicultural understanding among society, strengthening Lithuanian Human rights coalitions and its dialog with stakeholders. The Bagel Shop educates Lithuanian society about the significance of Jewish contributions to Lithuanian history and culture, facilitate dialogue among various ethnical groups and actively engage young Jews and other Lithuanian citizens in order to help them to both re-examine the shared past and build a shared future together.

2015-12-15

ORT Media Center and Lithuanian Jewish Community Organize Computer Courses

The ORT Media Center and the Lithuanian Jewish Community are offering the public the chance to improve their IT skills. Two different courses are planned: a series of Cisco network administration courses with exams and qualifications, and a general computer literacy course including Google products and electronic banking. For more information on the two Cisco network courses, contact lauras@lzb.lt . For more information on the general computer literacy class, contact valentin.baltija@gmail.com

2015-12-09

Mini Limmud Begins Friday!

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.

2015-12-08

Celebrate Hanukkah in Panevėžys

The Panevėžys and Ukmergė Jewish Communities invite you to attend a Hanukkah celebration from 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. on December 13 at the Vakarinė Žara restaurant at S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno street No. 4 in Panevėžys.

There will be games and gifts for the children.

Please announce your intention to attend via email to genakofman@yahoo.com

See you there!

2015-12-04