Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their…
People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history…
The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music…
Lithuania is promoting to Israeli tourists as the ‘Jerusalem of the North” as this week Lithuania’s tourist authorities presented the…
The cinematographer for Revenant, the film leading the race for this year’s Oscars with 12 nominations, is of Lithuanian Litvak…
Residents of Kaunas and exchange students curiously glanced at a crowd, standing outside despite the cold around an imposing metal…
This past Sunday, hundreds of people, Jewish and non-Jewish, packed into the Choral Synagogue on Pylimo Street to launch the…
The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers…
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened the first ever Israeli Litvak Forum in Tel Aviv. In her address to Jews with…
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Israel on an official visit, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The meeting -…
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is making an official visit to Israel on 19-21 October. She will be accompanied by the ministers…
During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas…
A sculpture depicting India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and his Jewish-Lithuanian architect friend Hermann Kallenbach was unveiled in the town…
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad - In Unum - 10 Years of…
After a successful experiment at the first session it was decided that each week’s session would start with an intriguing…
The municipality of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas is beginning to clean up an old Jewish cemetery in Žaliakalnis, with identification…
The names of Holocaust victims will be read publicly in several Lithuanian cities and towns on Tuesday, September 22, on…
Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem…
On 6 September, the European Day of Jewish Culture, the Litvak community of Rokiškis unveiled an information stand on Sinagogų…
Sitting on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is an important transport, financial and cultural hub. It hosts world-class…