Lithuanian jews

US antisemitism envoy pressures Lithuania to stop construction over Vilnius Jewish cemetery

US antisemitism envoy Yehuda Kaploun urged Lithuania to block renewed development at Vilnius’s historic Snipiskes Jewish Cemetery, warning that thousands of Jewish graves remain beneath the site.

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) people in Tel Aviv in June.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion

THE FORMER Romm Widow printing house, where the famed Vilna Shas edition of the Talmud was printed.

Exploring Vilnius: the Jerusalem of Lithuania and its Jewish past

A Zikaron Basalon event held at the Anti-Defamation League office in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026.

From Lithuania to Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor shares his story with diplomats


Lessons from my Bubbe’s doorstep

In what became a formative moment of my life, glaring into my eyes, she punctuated every word with her calloused finger wagging in my face: “We’re not Lithuanians. We are Jews.”

A monument honoring the victims of the Ponary massacre near Vilnius, Lithuania

Dancing with ghosts

Living between an overbearing neighbor’s thickening shadow and a murdered population’s whispering remains, Lithuania struggles to seize the future and overcome the past.

A monument honoring the victims of the Ponary massacre near Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilnius, a hub of Torah study destroyed by Nazis, to get new yeshiva

After being destroyed in World War II, Lithuania first Yeshiva is to open soon.

Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania

Famous French Jewish writer's memoir is made into a second movie

PROMISE AT DAWN

Lithuanian Jews reopen Vilnius synagogue 2 days after contested closure

Along with the synagogue, the community’s headquarters also were announced as being shut down due to threatening phone calls and emails, Kukliansky said Tuesday.

Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania

Book review: The destruction of the shtetl

Grigory Kanovich’s latest novel tells of the dramatic and heartbreaking fate of a Lithuanian town called Mishkine.

A Jewish shtetl in eastern Europe in 1936

Petition: remove honors for Lithuanian Nazi collaborator

The change.org petition, started by Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika's granddaughter, calls on the Lithuanian government to remove posthumous honors granted to him.

Memorial plaque at the Library of Academy of science in Vilnius: Jonas Noreika generolas Vetra

Litvaks, Jews in Lithuania and antisemitism

Lithuania’s Jews persevere

Fania Brancovskaja, Vilna’s last Holocaust survivor, in the library of the Yiddish Institute of the University of Vilnius

In honor of Lituanian memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust

During the Nazi occupation of 1941-44, the order in Lithuania was so efficient, that there were almost no Germans in the local administration or police.

The Jewish cemetery of Šeduva, a Lithuanian town once home to a majority of Jews

Letters to the editor: August 28, 2018

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