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Residents of Kaunas and exchange students curiously glanced at a crowd, standing outside despite the cold around an imposing metal menorah next to the colourfully lit Musical Theater. Holding Bengal lights, members of the small Jewish community in Kaunas, their ethnic Lithuanian friends, and Israeli students gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the third day of Hanukkah – the festival of lights. Chassidic techno-pop music in Hebrew was blasting from loudspeakers.
Hanukkah in Kaunas with Chassidic pop and traditional latkes
© DELFI (A.Didžgalvio nuotr.)

Organized by the Chassidie Chabad Lubavitch community, the annual public celebration was immersed in lights. Greeting his community, US-born rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky said that the best way of countering all evil is doing good and spreading the light. He wished his followers “A likhtikn Khanike” (a Hanukkah full of light) in Yiddish, juggling

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