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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Faina Kukliansky

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Vilnius's Choral Synagogue on August 26, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
August 8, 2019, 8:56 pm
Lithuanian synagogue reopens after government vows to guarantee security
Local Jewish community leader praises Lithuania’s president, PM for promising to protect house of worship after spate of threats
By AFP and ToI Staff
The interior of the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
August 8, 2019, 2:09 am
Lithuanian Jews split over closure of only functioning synagogue in Vilnius
Institutions shut indefinitely by head of Jewish community over threats, but other leaders challenge move and call it alarmist and unnecessary
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Lithuanian Jewish men pray, during a morning service in a Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)
August 7, 2019, 12:20 am
Lithuanian Jews indefinitely shut community center, lone synagogue after threats
Amid escalating controversy over national commemoration policies, Jewish leader demands government speak out, wonders ‘whether we are safe or not’
By Raphael Ahren
Pope Francis smiles as he arrives with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, right, ahead of a meeting with authorities, civil society and diplomatic corps in the square in front of the Presidential Palace, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 22, 2018 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 22, 2018, 11:34 am
Pope urged to speak out against construction atop Vilnius Jewish cemetery
Appeal follows months of intensive lobbying by rabbis and activists who oppose the building of a conference center, citing religious rules that forbid disturbing Jewish bodies
By JTA
Faina Kukliansky in an October 2016 interview. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 30, 2018, 12:49 am
Lithuanian Jews rally to demand fair internal elections
Demonstrators complain of ‘elections fraud’ by leader of small Jewish community amid dispute over control of Holocaust restitution funds
By JTA
Lithuania Jewish community president Faina Kukliansky. (Screen capture/YouTube)
December 28, 2017, 11:29 am
Lithuanian court nullifies Jewish community elections
Ruling comes in light of power struggle amid sharp opposition to national group’s president Faina Kukliansky
By JTA
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite talks to soldiers serving in the NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battalion battle group in Rukla, Lithuania, August 11, 2017. (AFP/Petras Malukas)
August 15, 2017, 2:32 pm
Lithuania ignores US lawmakers’ protest at construction on Jewish graves
President says conference center project at Piramont cemetery, where Vilna Gaon was initially buried, was coordinated with local community
By JTA
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