How should the state and its politicians act upon facing a sharp, sensitive and controversial in society question – shove their heads in the sand or do discuss and speak about it, Jewish property in […]
Representatives of State enterprises Turto Bankas, the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe (CPJCE) and the technical project implementation matched a technical project for the reconstruction and adaptation of the Vilnius Concert and Sports Hall and […]
Two pillars were discovered during the archaeological research at the site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Vilnius, Lithuania. Located next to the pulpit (the Bimah), the pillars mark one of the two most […]
The local Jewish community in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai, which plans to rebury recently-discovered remains of their ancestors, says it is facing resistance from the Jewish Community of Lithuania. The latter says it only wants to keep things in order and ensure that rites are performed by competent rabbis. […]
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius calls on authorities to take down a memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vėtra (General Storm), over his collaboration with the Nazis. […]
Pope Francis will say a silent prayer in the place of former Vilnius Ghetto 75 years since its liquidation. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about a friendship between “two small democracies” as he met with the Jewish community of Lithuania on the last day of his visit to Vilnius on Sunday. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the local Jewish community in Vilnius on Sunday, the last day of his visit to Lithuania. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania on Thursday for a historic visit. […]
Russian billionaire and owner of London Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich visited Vilnius this week, the 15min.lt news website reports on Thursday. […]
Archeologists have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday. […]
Archeologist have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday. […]
The Jewish Community of Lithuania is holding its annual conference in Vilnius on Monday when the Community’s financial and activity reports will be approved. […]
Vilnius and Panevėžys will Friday pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Holocaust, with events for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in other cities of Lithuania. […]
Fragments of Jewish gravestones, which were used for construction during the Soviet era, are being delivered to the territory of a former Jewish cemetery on Olandų Street from various locations of the Lithuanian capital. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday presented 43 Lithuanians who rescued Jews during World War Two with Life Saving Crosses. […]
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, says that Lithuania should pay more attention to preserving the Jewish history and heritage and calls for efforts to be made to ensure that there is no xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the country. […]
As German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday plans to pay homage to the Holocaust victims in Paneriai, outside Vilnius, the leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) says that they highly appreciate such attention. […]
Lithuania’s leaders say that Šnipiškių Jewish cemetery would not be affected by the reconstruction of the derelict Sports and Concert Palace in central Vilnius, dismissing the fears voiced by a group of US Congressmen as ungrounded. […]
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