Top Lithuanian politicians were among the 800 people who attended a Jewish day school graduation that was believed to be the first such event in Vilnius since World War II. The Beis Menachem school is one of 52 Jewish schools operated by the Ohr Avner Foundation in conjunction with the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Soviet Union.
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