Sports
Embassy of Israel invites to Trophy Basketball Tournament
The Embassy of Israel in Vilnius together with Šarūnas Marčiulionis Basketball Academy is organizing a youth basketball tournament in Vilnius. […]
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World Lithuanian Economic Forum invites to discuss business and science in Israel
The Lithuanian and Israeli businesspeople, diaspora members and people interested in fostering relations with Lithuania will meet for the seventh time this October in the World Lithuanian Economic Forum. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president hands credentials to first ambassador to South Africa
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]
Culture
Renovation of synagogue starts in Vilnius
Renovation works of the synagogue on Gėlių Street in Vilnius has been started, the Department of Cultural Heritage said on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian Diplomatic Star awarded to Dr. Richard Maullin
On Sunday evening, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, awarded in Los Angeles the diplomatic start to Dr. Richard Maullin. […]
Society
Unique Jewish heritage site opens in Šeduva
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. […]
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Jewish organisations invited to participate in World Lithuanian Economic Forum
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. […]
Culture
Foreign affairs
Opinion
Sergey Kanovich: Holocaust Museum and Holocaust of Memory
What a silly title, I thought after I wrote it. There is no such thing in Lithuania. There was a Holocaust, but there is no museum. It should have been here twenty-five years ago, but it’s still not here. A kind of anniversary. Cynical and macabre. More cynical than the long decades when the word “Holocaust” was not to be pronounced, let alone capitalized… […]
Culture
Israel Diary. On the cloud named Lithuania
We offer you a recent interview with Grigory Kanovich who several weeks won the National Prize of Lithuania for Art and Culture and was named an Honorary Citizen of his hometown, Jonava. […]
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Litvak art in Philadelphia
Philadelphia can lay claim to a few superlatives in art. Probably nowhere are so many paintings by Renoir and sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz on public display within less than 1 square mile but in Philadelphia. Both have a connection to France and Lipchitz life story even leads all the way to Druskininkai in Lithuania. […]
Culture
In memoriam of Romain Gary
This year, Lithuania hosted several cultural events in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Romain Gary, French novelist, diplomat and pilot of Lithuanian origin. […]
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Society
Rūta Vanagaitė: Lithuania is still competing with the Holocaust
Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the most successful projects financed by the European Commission (EC). […]
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Litvak lenses influenced sensibilities of Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer
Earlier this week the media honoured Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel and Man Booker prize winning novelist with a wealth of obituaries. Gordimer died at the age of 90 on 13 July in her native South Africa. Reverent fans and curious new readers peppered social networks with quotations highlighting her defence of human rights and literary bravery in the face of censorship. […]