I need to be helped with Tefillims and Tallit because by my income I can't, I live very poorily in Albania, please help me also with a complete Siddur Version in English. Thanks. Your Brother Gentian Gjonej, from Albania. P.S. I will send You my mail postal adress if You will agree to help me with the items as I ask for them You.

Anyone thinking of donating should first contact the society below to investigate. Please share what you discover.

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Found on JewishVirtualLibrary.org :

Throughout Albania’s communist period under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, the Jewish community was isolated from the Jewish world. All religion was strictly banned from the country. The Jewish population numbered between 200-300 citizens. After the fall of Communism, in 1991, nearly all the Jews of Albania were airlifted to Israel and settled predominantly in Tel Aviv.

Today, only ten Jews remain in Albania, most in the capital, Tirana. Where there was once an active Jewish community, today, there exists very little organized communal life. An Albania-Israel Friendship Society is active in Tirana, but with little assistance. One synagogue remains in Vloré, but is no longer in use.

Albania-Israel Friendship Society
Rruga Barriskatave, 226 Tirana
Tel. 355-422-2611

I did a Google search on your name. Are you the same person who posted as Father Deacon Gentian Gjonej, elsewhere on the Internet, describing himself as follows:

[removed by request of Gentian Gjonej]

And are you the same person who in 2005 participated in Albania's first-ever interfaith camp experience (for Sunni Muslims, Bektashi Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants -- there are no Jews left in Albania). If so, you must have been between 18 and 25 when you were quoted on the Internet as saying:

[removed by request of Gentian Gjonej]

Yes I'm the same guy I never pretend to be a different person, can You please tell me, have You partecipated in the meeting You have cited in Your message, thanks I would like to comunicate with You if possible? With Rispect Deacon Gentian (Anton) Gjonej

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In my profound studies being sincere and honnest with You I discovered that the Christian roots are Jewish and for this I would like to discover and to use in my own the Jewish Prayer. Please don't misunderstand me. Is not at all my intension to play with no body. Have You partecipated in the Interfaith meetin in 2005 in Valona when also I was as a seminary orthodox student, Please I repeat don't misunderstand me.

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Please dear editor if You don't mind I would like to have honnest comunication with You by emails' or phone calls, I would like really to get in contact with You, Sincerelly Your friend, Deacon Gentian (Anton) Gjonej from Albania...

I have send You my email. ...