Announcement from Chabad in Lithuania:
Since its inception in 1994, Chabad of Lithuania has endured attacks and libel by the very people now empowered with distributing Lithuanian Government restitution funds.
Despite the fact that Chabad has been serving Jews throughout Lithuania full time since 1994, they have been excluded from receiving restitution funds vital to their survival.
Since 2014, these funds have been paid by the Lithuanian Government with the intention that they be distributed fairly for the good of the Jews living in Lithuania today.
The Lithuanian Government has been giving 3.4 million Euro annually to the Good Will Foundation. The GWF was created for the sole purpose of distributing these funds given in lieu of the return of pre-World War II Jewish Religious Communal property, and should be distributed in an equitable manner. However, to date, Chabad Lithuania has not received any of these funds.
This has resulted in the educational institutions (and Chabad Lithuania in general) being in urgent need of an immediate influx of significant funds to continue its work.
To add insult to injury, the GWF’s current co-chairs have been surreptitiously undermining the work of Chabad Lithuania for many years, in ways that would make the KGB proud.
That’s right, the very people who are supposed to be impartially distributing government funds, have been and continue to undermine the work of Chabad in Lithuania.
All this while funds from the GWF have been allocated to dozens of projects and institutions that are offensive to the morals and values of the pre-War Jewish religious communities in Lithuania.
A petition has been created to bring the attention of this travesty to the community at large, in the hope that some sunlight will cause the perpetrators to reconsider.
The public is asked to visit the petition site: https://www.change.org/p/good-will-foundation-board-please-help-make-a-vital-difference-for-lithuanian-jewry-now and add their name to the ever growing list of signators.
If you are on Twitter, tweet a question about the boycott to @goodwillfund.
For detailed background information, please visit rabbikrinsky.blogspot.lt
1. In most places, shluchim make a point of cultivating a good relationship with the government. That makes it easier to get things like building permits, etc. In this case I can imagine it could help get funding.
2. I suggest you start a charidy or go fund me page and ask Lubavitchers around the world to donate. That will enable you to concentrate on doing your excellent work spreading Yiddishkeit.
Wishing you hatzlocha rabba,
Chana in Los Angeles
totally devoted with mesiras nefesh! they should have all brachos! and may Hashem send them a yishua krovah! דידן נצח!
It incredible shluchim I grew up in Vilnius and saw tqwuth beauty misirets nefesh and biggest dovotion.The best experience of camps holidays and shabbos they inspired me to be frum.THEY INCREDIBLE shluchim and put tons off work.My parents still live in Vilnius Lithuania and every time happy going to all the events.IT VERY IMPORTANT time we all need unity and help them.
Ps I am marriage frum and live in crown heights. Others on shluchim in Moscow Bishkek and Israel.That all because of incredible work of Nechama Dina and Sholom Ber Krinsky
Mamash
These are shluchm with literal mesiras nefesh each and every day.They have made many baalei teshuva and have taken in so many lost Jewish souls as their own family.PLEASE sign the petition now.
Why aren’t the “heads” of Lubavitch official organizations involved in helping Chabad in Lithuania? As always, problems only get bigger and more thorny when they are ignored. And when we abandon one shliach we give a very bad message. Eventually it will be a bigger and more serious issue with repercussions in more places and it will be harder to solve. If we would only unite behind our own already!
What is happening in Lithuania, the discrimination etc.. is appallin, the Krinsky’s selflessly devote their shlichus to yiddishkeit only to constantly get stabbed by these corrupt people… EVERYONE MUST SUGN THIS PETITION AND SHOW THE GWF THAT WE STAND BEHIND THE KRINSKY’S!
Having been there and seen first hand what goes on, the matzav is unbearable ad unfair especially for ppl who works in hard!
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