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.

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.

>>Program

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

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

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