Benjamin Netanyahu
Foreign affairs

Israeli PM speaks about friendship of ‘2 small democracies’ as he meets Lithuanian Jews

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. […]

Paneriai Holocaust Memorial
Society

Over hundred people honor memory of Holocaust victims in Vilnius

Around one hundred people on Wednesday took part in the 11th March of the Living to honor the memory of the Holocaust victims. […]

High-profiled ceremony for the forthcoming The Lost Shtetl Museum & Memorial Complex - @ ArkLM
Society

High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania

On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film and book on Rainer Mahlamäki’s projects of memorial architecture. […]

Faina Kukliansky
Politics

Seimas discusses marking Year of Jews; community leader shrugs

As the Lithuanian parliament readies to discuss ways of marking the Year of Jews, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Jewish Community in Lithuania, has expressed astonishment over failure to discuss the initiative with the organization. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Lithuania cannot be imagined without Jewish contribution – foreign minister

Jews were highly important to the Lithuanian state, the country’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said at the Tuesday’s meeting with David Harris, the head of the American Jewish Committee. […]