Chabad rabbi, followers ejected from prayer space in Lithuania The incident, which reflects deep-seated mistrust of Chabad by some communal bosses, was a milder repeat of a fistfight that broke out in a Vilnius synagogue in 2004.
Lithuania’s chief rabbi fired amid dispute over construction on former cemetery Chaim Burshtein criticized the community president over her defense for planned construction atop a complex which Soviets build on a Jewish cemetery.
Lithuanian chief rabbi considers splitting from community Chaim Burshtein disagrees with the community’s lay leader about construction atop a former Jewish cemetery.
