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 ...

(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 ...

On Friday, May 1, 2026, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) will host a delegation from the Government of Lithuania.

When people ask me where to place Lithuania on the European map of Holocaust prosecution, I tell them that it is one of the ...

Top rabbis and Brooklyn activists are in a heated battle to protect from desecration a historic 16th-century Jewish cemetery in Lithuania amid planned renovation of a dilapidated building atop the ...

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 ...

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, ...

At the event organized by Zikaron Basalon and the Anti-Defamation League at the latter’s Jerusalem office, Clevs brought the ...

It’s a shivery winter Shabbat evening and Emanuelis Zingeris is immersed in a spiritual moment at Europe’s largest synagogue. That would be normal enough, except that the Great Synagogue was destroyed ...

The municipality of Vilnius in Lithuania began dismantling a Soviet-era structure made from Jewish headstones. On Wednesday, Mayor Remigijus Šimašius removed the first stone from the structure housing ...

(JTA) The inauguration of a cultural center named for a prominent Jewish person isn’t an unusual occurrence in most of Europe, where Jews have been at the forefront of intellectual endeavors for ...