In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, a woman walks past a synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania. Jewish leaders in the Lithuanian capital are closing the city’s sole synagogue and community ...

In the face of the Soviet Union – an empire that former US President Ronald Reagan famously called the “evil empire” for its ...

A recently published book listing the names of Lithuanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust has sparked a debate between the State Jewish Museum and Lithuanian nationalists. After 13 years of ...

The issue of Jewish property restitution may influence the upcoming presidential election here. In a March 29 meeting with Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas ...

Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside over 37 million euros ($38 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs. Ingrida Šimonytė, Lithuania’s prime minister, ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s government has shelved controversial plans to build a flashy conference center on what used to be a Jewish cemetery in the capital city of Vilnius because of how the COVID-19 ...

TEL AVIV, Israel and LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, and LitvakSIG, a U.S. non-profit organization providing ...

Lithuania’s chief rabbi urged the country’s Evangelical Reformed Church to remove Jewish headstones being used as stairs to a Vilnius church. Rabbi Chaim Burshtein’s call on Facebook last month ...

Jewish community leaders in Lithuania on Thursday announced the discovery of an 18th-century memorial plaque bearing Hebrew inscriptions that detail trips made by Jewish residents of Vilnius to the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. The ...

As we approach Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, this year’s theme of “Bridging Generations” reminds us that the responsibility of remembrance lies with all of us. At the Lost Shtetl Museum, a ...

This summer, archaeologists in the capital of Lithuania made a remarkable discovery. They dug up the bimah, or central platform, from what was one of the most important synagogues in Eastern Europe, ...