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Lithuanian Jewish community to appoint new rabbi

August 17, 2015 BNS 0

The Jewish Community of Lithuania has dismissed its rabbi Chaim Burstein after the community’s chairwoman accused him of spreading lies about the Šnipiškių cemetery in Vilnius. […]

Opinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehood

August 15, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues that it was a move in the information war that Russia has launched against the West, including Lithuania. The retaliation that followed targeted crucial moments and figures in the nation’s twentieth-century history. […]

Kaunas city and Jewish organization sign deal on cemetery upkeep

August 6, 2015 BNS 0

The Municipality of Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, has signed a cooperation agreement with Jewish organization Maceva regarding the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kaunas, the municipality said. […]

Mahatma Gandhi, his secretary Sonia Schlesin and Dr. Hermann Kallenbach

Lithuania to unveil monument to Mahatma Gandhi by Russian border

August 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania will unveil a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian statesman and a major icon of peace, a few hundred metres from the Russian border, The Times of India reports. […]

Wooden Synagogue of Žiežmariai. Photo Wikipedia

Wooden synagogue up for renovation in central Lithuania

August 3, 2015 BNS 0

Municipal authorities of the district of Kaišiadorys intend to renovate the wooden Jewish synagogue in Žiežmariai, central Lithuania. […]

Renovation of synagogue starts in Vilnius

July 22, 2015 BNS 0

Renovation works of the synagogue on Gėlių Street in Vilnius has been started, the Department of Cultural Heritage said on Tuesday. […]

Jewish representatives to visit WWII mass grave discovered in Šiauliai

July 16, 2015 BNS 0

Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe are to come to Lithuania and visit the mass grave in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai, recently discovered during road construction work, the head of the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Tuesday. […]

U-turn on excavation of WWII mass grave found in Šiauliai

July 16, 2015 BNS 0

The authorities in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai have decided against excavating remains from a recently discovered World War Two mass burial site due to concerns from the Jewish community. […]

Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund donates ambulance car

June 29, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

During the celebrations of Šeduva Days on 27 June, Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund made a significant donation to the local community in the form of a new fully equipped 4×4 Ford Transit ambulance car which was delivered to the local ambulance station. […]

Kaunas commemorates brutal WWII Jewish pogrom

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in Lithuania but also Europe, Gercas Zakas, the leader of the Jewish community in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, said during a commemoration ceremony on Friday. […]

Transformatorinė, kuri, kaip įtariama, sumūryta iš žydų antkapių

Electric substation built of Jewish tombstones to be dismantled next year

June 9, 2015 BNS 0

An electric substation in Vilnius, built during the Soviet times using Jewish tombstones, will be dismantled next year, the Lithuanian capital’s mayor says. […]

Jewish song and dance group Fajerlech. Photo courtesy of the Lithuanian Jewish Community

Beigel Awards for Tolerance presented in Lithuania

June 6, 2015 BNS 0

Six people were presented with the Beigel Awards for Tolerance, traditional awards presented by the Jewish Community of Lithuania, for promoting tolerance in the country. […]

Parts of YIVO archives discovered by US army in Frankfurt

Jewish archives from Vilnius to be restored in New York

June 5, 2015 BNS 0

Digitalization of the unique archives about lives of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust accumulated by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilnius before World War II should start in New York in the coming months. […]

Foreign Minister Linkevicius awarding Lithuanian Diplomatic Star-to Dr. Richar Maullin Photo Ludo Segers

Lithuanian Diplomatic Star awarded to Dr. Richard Maullin

June 1, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Sunday evening, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, awarded in Los Angeles the diplomatic start to Dr. Richard Maullin. […]

Unique Jewish heritage site opens in Šeduva

May 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a private ceremony at the town’s recently restored Jewish cemetery (Žvejų gatvė). More than 400 tombstones have been identified and more than 1,300 have been either painstakingly restored or preserved in a tribute to the lives of the thousands of Jews that once comprised the majority of this Lithuanian shtetl. […]

New-found love between Lithuania and Israel

May 22, 2015 Linas Jegelevicius 0

With a thrust from the eurozone, affordable air-fares on the route Vilnius-Tel Aviv and just generally better Israeli-Lithuanian relations, tourist flows between the two countries have peaked lately. […]

Lithuania presents its efforts against anti-Semitism in Jerusalem forum

May 15, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

At the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism held in Jerusalem on 12-14 May, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius reviewed Lithuania’s accomplishments in liquidating consequences of the Holocaust and combating the manifestations of anti-Semitism, especially in cyberspace, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Jewish organisations invited to participate in World Lithuanian Economic Forum

May 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius has paid a working visit to Tel Aviv, Israel. The minister invited representatives of Jewish organisations to actively participate in the World Lithuanian Economic Forum (PLEF) which will take place in Israel in October. […]

Vilnius resident discovers electric substation he thinks was built of Jewish tombstones

May 11, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Giedrius Sakalauskas, a resident of Vilnius, was taking a walk with his son on Sunday when he made a disturbing discovery. An electric substation on Olandų Street that seemed to be built out of Jewish tombstones. […]

Survivor of Nazi and Soviet repressions: I fear again when I see fascination with cruelty

May 8, 2015 BNS 0

Juliana Zarchi, the daughter of a German mother and a Jewish father, who survived Nazi and Soviet repressions in Lithuania, says her fears are rekindled again as she sees re-emerging fascination with cruelty, despite horrible lessons of the twentieth century. […]