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VILNIUS—This evening’s rally dedicated to reconstruction of the ruin of the old and hated Soviet “Sports Palace” built in the middle of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery, entailing de facto permanent desecration of the five hundred year old cemetery, was shaken by a powerful one minute address by Rabbi Elchonon Baron, scion of Lithuanian heads-of-yeshiva who now heads Jewish Heritage in Lita, in his imitable classic Litvak rabbinic style.