25 January 2021 • 12:01am
A tomb effigy lies in prayer at Salisbury Cathedral as people rest after being vaccinated
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SIR – Jane Moth (Letters, January 23) is absolutely right about the grief and gloom in the BBC news coverage of Covid. I stopped watching the six o’clock news 10 days ago.
I keep abreast of the news and am aware of the seriousness of the situation, but it has been a release not watching daily close-ups of dying patients and grieving relatives. I feel able to face daily difficulties in better heart, but can still sympathise with those less fortunate.
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Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish New Year for the trees, is a day for me that is forever linked with the yahrzeit of my father, Yisrael ben Yosef, Ira Lulinski. My father was a child during the Holocaust when he miraculously escaped the murderous Einsatzgruppen mass shootings and ran into the woods where he hid for for two years and fought with a Partisan group. With the exception of my grandfather, his entire family was killed. While it was G-d who spared his life, the trees in the forest helped provide shelter from the evil Nazi storm.
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Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust survivor turned human rights advocate Irena Veisaite died of COVID-19 on Dec. 11, 2020. (Krzysztof Czyzewski/Borderland Foundation)
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(JTA) Even in the most challenging circumstances, Irena Veisaite never missed a chance to foster tolerance and understanding.
One of the few Jews to survive the Holocaust in Lithuania, Veisaite’s passion for reconciliation helped defuse a tense moment during an exchange between Poles and Lithuanians at the White Synagogue in Sejny, a Polish town on the border between the two countries that share a long history scarred by tragedy.
In the early 1990s, a group of Poles and Lithuanians gathered at the synagogue for a dialogue organized by the Borderland Foundation, a Sejny-based nonprofit that works to promote intercultural understanding. When a young Polish man lashed out against Lithuanians, Veisaite successfully appealed to the Lithuanians not to walk out. By the end of the heated, two-hour