Worldwide protests against building work at the site of the 600-year-old Vilna cemetery – where the Vilna Goan is buried – moved to London as hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered outside the capital’s Lithuanian embassy. (Origional story HERE on YW.)
The Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe and the Conference of European Rabbis is arranging prayer vigils and demonstrations in New York, Washington and Melbourne in the coming months to call for construction at the Snipiskes Jewish cemetery in Vilnius to be halted.
(Source: Totally Jewish)
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The Chassidim would never let this type of thing happen to any of their Rebbes’ Gravesite.