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AUGUST 26, 2021
Lithuania Drops Plan to Build Atop Jewish Cemetery
Lithuania’s government halted controversial plans to build a
conference center on the site of a former Jewish cemetery in its
capital city of Vilnius, saying the pandemic “has changed the
conference tourism market and environment.”
A decaying former sports complex that closed in 2004 already
sits on part of the former Piramont Cemetery. Th ousands of
bodies — including Jewish luminaries such as 18th-century sage
Vilna Gaon — still lie there. Th e government wanted to turn the
old complex into a $25 million conference center.

Opponents of the plan had argued that the concept insulted
the memory of those buried there. Lithuania’s Jewish population
was nearly wiped out in the Holocaust.

Argentina Marks 100K COVID-19 Deaths with
Jewish Tradition
Argentines placed stones in front of a government building
Aug. 16 — echoing the Jewish ritual of placing small rocks atop
gravestones — to mark the country crossing the 100,000-death
threshold from COVID-19, JTA reported.

“Th e March of the Stones” in Buenos Aires developed sponta-
neously through social media protests of how the Argentine
government has handled the pandemic. Th ose who marched on the
Casa Rosada government building carried stones inscribed with the
names of COVID victims, whose numbers have climbed to more
than 110,000. At the main site, stones were placed in a plaza.

Among the stones visible in social media posts was one
for Rabbi Baruj Plavnick, who died at the age of 69. He had
volunteered his synagogue as a vaccination center and declined
vaccination opportunities before he was eligible.

Th e government collected the stones for use in a future
permanent tribute site.

Yeshiva Student Shot and Killed in Denver
Four young men were arrested for shooting and killing a Jewish
yeshiva student in Denver during a violent crime spree on Aug.

17, although police said there’s no indication antisemitism
motivated the crime, JTA reported.

Victim Shmuel Silverberg, 18, was an Orthodox Jew from
University Heights, Ohio. He was killed outside Yeshiva Toras
Chaim, the religious school where he was studying. Police said
he ran from his attackers, who chased him inside the school aft er
shooting him. ●
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Tam Cummings, Ph.D., Gerontologist
Author, Untangling Alzheimer’s: The Guide
for Families and Professionals
8 Poland Approves Law Limiting Holocaust Restitution Claims
POLISH PRESIDENT ANDRZEJ DUDA signed a law
restricting Holocaust restitution claims by Jews and others
whose property was stolen by the Nazis or Soviet-backed occupa-
tion forces during the World War II era, JTA reported.

Th e law gives all property restitution claims a 30-year time
limit from the alleged theft — eff ectively wiping out any claims.

Israeli offi cials and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
who is Jewish, were among those expressing concerns.

“Poland today approved — not for the fi rst time — an
immoral, antisemitic law,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid
said. Duda and other Polish leaders say the bill simplifi es the
country’s property laws and ends a period of corruption and
confusion over restitution claims. Most of the claims were made
by non-Jewish Poles.

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