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NEWS
Possibility of Rebuilding Vilna Gaon's Beis Knesses
by E. Rauchberger
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauseks said before
Rosh Hashonoh during a meeting with Knesset Chairman Reuven
Rivlin, who was visiting the country, that the Lithuanian
parliament would soon be asked to reconsider the local
citizenship law which discriminates against Jewish Holocaust
survivors.
The existing citizenship law in Lithuania stipulates that
Lithuanian residents who emigrated to "their historic
homeland" (i.e. Eretz Yisroel) are not entitled to have
property stolen from them during and after World War II
returned to them.
Rivlin raised the issue during all of his meetings in the
country, saying the law equating Jewish Holocaust survivors
with Russians and Germans who left Lithuania constitutes an
insult to those murdered.
During his meeting with the Prime Minister, Rivlin also
raised the issue of rebuilding the Vilna Gaon's beis
knesses in Vilna, which was damaged during the course of
the war and then demolished by the Soviet regime. The site is
currently being used as a kindergarten. The Prime Minister
replied that the matter could be solved and would be
addressed as soon as possible.
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