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August 27, 2021

An Ancient Torah Pointer Discovered in the Remains of a Vilna Synagogue

The ruins of the Jerusalem of Lithuania.

In the Lithuanian city of Vilnius—known to Jews as Vilna—archaeologists have been at work excavating the remains of the great synagogue, which was destroyed by successive Nazi and Soviet occupations. Like many East European synagogues, the 17th-century structure was part of a larger complex organized around a central courtyard that included smaller houses of prayer and other buildings. Cnaan Liphshiz describes the latest discovery:

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