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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Vilna Gaon

The decorated floor of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, discovered in an archaeological dig in Lithuania, in a photo released on July 25, 2024. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 25, 2024, 2:52 pm
Uncovered floor of Vilnius’s Great Synagogue bears witness to Nazi, Soviet devastation
Researchers find one of synagogue’s columns collapsed on its side; 17th-century prayer house, at center of Jewish metropolis, was looted by Germans, razed by Russians
By ToI Staff
The run-down Palace of Culture and Sport in Vilnius sits atop a former Jewish cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)
August 16, 2021, 11:25 pm
Lithuania scraps plan for swish $25M conference center on old Jewish cemetery
Official says Piramont Cemetery project abandoned due to COVID-19 changing the conference tourism market
By Cnaan Liphshiz
R. Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon, by Winograd. (Wikipedia, public domain)
November 5, 2020, 12:52 pm
The Torah, the paupers, and the Vilna Gaon
A Yiddish story offers a crucial lesson on extending open hospitality to the poorest among us, one that has not faded in the hundreds of years since it was first told (Vayera)
By Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah S. Boyarin
Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania/ via JTA)
October 24, 2020, 10:51 pm
Lithuania mints first-ever EU coin with Hebrew letters, honoring Vilnius scholar
Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the ‘Vilna Gaon,’ who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
August 4, 2019, 10:17 am
Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past
Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)
February 2, 2019, 1:18 am
Lithuania rejects Israeli request for remains of Vilna Gaon
Government adviser says famed 18th-century rabbi an ‘inseparable part’ of the history of Lithuania’s once thriving Jewish community
By AFP
The site of the synagogue today. The Vilna Gaon monument is at the right. (CC BY 2.5 Julius / Wikipedia)
July 15, 2016, 8:04 pm
Diggers in Lithuania unearth complex that housed Vilna Gaon’s synagogue
The site used to be the center of one of Eastern Europe’s largest and most prominent Jewish communities
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presented with a diagram of his family tree during the inauguration ceremony of a new section of Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, May 24, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
May 25, 2016, 5:42 pm
Netanyahu reveals his roots go back to Spain
PM says DNA check on his brother shows some of family, thought to be of Eastern European extraction, goes back to Iberian Peninsula
By Stuart Winer
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