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Swastika of dirt and flowers placed in front of Lithuanian Jewish community headquarters

Online, some comments about the display suggested it was meant not only to offend, but to intimidate with elements evocative of burial.

Lithuanian Jewish community reopens Vilnius synagogue 2 days after contested closure

Shuttering the Choral Synagogue for unspecified security reasons “did not lead to greater unity among the Jewish communities,” the community wrote.

The interior of the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wikimedia Commons)

Lithuanian Jews are split over the closing of only functioning synagogue in Vilnius

The national chairwoman of Lithuanian Jewry acted without mandate or grounds when she shuttered the building for security reasons, her local counterparts said.

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Jewish cemetery desecrated in Lithuania, leaving bones scattered

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Lithuanian troops train at former concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried

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Lithuanian Jewish leader sorry for insulting Russian-speaking Jews

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Among Lithuania’s Jews, a fight for communal control takes a nasty ethnic turn

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Lithuania lifts major obstruction to citizenship applications by Jews

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In first, Lithuania fair to feature Jewish stand

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On Israel visit, Lithuanian PM makes pledge on Jewish cemeteries

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