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October 26, 2004
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A group of Lithuanian Jews asked European lawmakers to intervene in a dispute between rival sections of Vilnius’ Jewish community. In an e-mail sent Wednesday to the lawmakers, the Vilnius Jewish Religious Community — a group associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of former Vilnius Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky — wrote that “a reprehensible abuse of human rights has been taking place unchecked in Lithuania over the past months.”

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