Lithuanian jews

Lithuania ruling party to stay in coalition with political ally convicted of hatred against Jews

The founder of the populist Nemunas Dawn party, Remigijus Zemaitaitis, was fined 5,000 euros ($5,800) last week for a series of social media posts against Jews and downplaying the Holocaust.

Dawn of Nemunas Party leader Remigijus Zemaitaitis attends a press conference after general election in Vilnius, Lithuania October 28, 2024.
March of the Living from Vilnius to Ponary

Marching to Ponary: Remembering the Lithuanian Jewish Community

 Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilna Jewish leadership betray their heritage - opinion

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports.

Lithuania scraps planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site


Lithuanian court nullifies Jewish community elections

The Dec. 21 ruling is the latest development in the fight against what many Lithuanian Jews consider a power grab by the community’s president, Faina Kukliansky.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Who will lead the Haredim?

The future of Haredim after the passing of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak

Memories from the ashes

Max Leibowitz recalls his roots in Lithuania

A sign in Yiddish, Hebrew and Lithuanian saying,‘In this place the Hitlerist murderers and their local helpers in the year of 1941 murdered 250 Jews, children, women and men’

Writer censored for accusing Lithuanian hero of Holocaust crimes

The recall of Vanagaitė’s books came one day after she revealed that she is in a relationship with Efraim Zuroff, an Israeli Nazi hunter

Vilnius, Lithuania

Thousands of Jewish documents lost during the Holocaust discovered

Among the finds are letters written by Sholem Aleichem, a postcard by Marc Chagall, and poems and manuscripts by Chaim Grade.

YIVO unveils lost Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during the Holocaust

Lithuanian FM: ‘Holocaust memory is important, but ties with Israel are the future’

Lithuania has been a staunch diplomatic ally for Israel, particularly at the UN and the within the EU.

LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Linas Linkevicius presents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a replica of a little girl from a Holocaust memorial in Lithuania during their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday.

‘Hatikva’ moments

Isn’t it all just bizarre? A “Hatikva moment” deluxe.

Sylvan Adams is an avid amateur cyclist whose medal haul includes five golds at Maccabiah games

Lithuania reconsiders plans to build atop destroyed Jewish cemetery

Rabbis and activists met with the Lithuanian ambassador to the US to discuss the convention center to be built on top of the former Snipiskes Cemetery.

A RED ROSE is pictured during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai, near Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012.

Jewish Holocaust victims were neighbors and fellow citizens

The project is based on the fact that there are 227 Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania scattered all across the country.

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Hope for change in Lithuania

Let us all hope that the new spirit on display in Moletai will mark the beginning of a new era in Lithuania.

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