Jewish Community of Lithuania

US officials and the Lithuanian Jewish community are urging the government to return private property to Holocaust survivors and their descendants, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Wednesday.

Fragments of Jewish gravestones, which were used for construction during the Soviet era, are being delivered to the territory of a former Jewish cemetery on Olandų Street from various locations of the Lithuanian capital.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday presented 43 Lithuanians who rescued Jews during World War Two with Life Saving Crosses.

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, says that Lithuania should pay more attention to preserving the Jewish history and heritage and calls for efforts to be made to ensure that there is no xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the country.

As German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday plans to pay homage to the Holocaust victims in Paneriai, outside Vilnius, the leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) says that they highly appreciate such attention.

Lithuania's leaders say that Šnipiškių Jewish cemetery would not be affected by the reconstruction of the derelict Sports and Concert Palace in central Vilnius, dismissing the fears voiced by a group of US Congressmen as ungrounded.

Leadership elections held in a few offices of the Jewish Community of Lithuania past spring resulted in mutual accusations and court trials.

A group of scientists headed by archeology professor Richard Freund from the US Hartford University is launching research in Kaunas, Lithuania, to specify the locations of Jewish mass graves.

Ideas about tremendous wealth of the Jews, their well-being, which was thought to have been created by incurring losses on the Christians, was prevalent in the society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( GDL and later periods). The reality, however, was quite different. Only a small part of the Jews w...

The Jewish Community of Lithuania suggests establishing a cultural museum in the territory of the former Vilnius ghetto, going beyond a single building to open spaces and employing smart technologies.

Lithuanian Jews are in a row over Wednesday's election of the leader of the Vilnius Jewish Community (VJC).

Unity is the most important thing to any community, Israel's Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon said ahead of the election of the chairman of the Jewish Community of Lithuania.

Simonas Gurevičius, a member of the board at Vilnius' Jewish Community, has initiated a petition against the new rules for election of the chairperson of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL), demanding to bring the earlier rules back.

The Good Will Foundation administering the state compensation for property of Jewish religious communities is considering purchase of four buildings in Lithuania, estimated at a total of over 2 million euros.

Participants of the March of the Living, a traditional event held in Vilnius to honor the victims of the Holocaust, underline the importance of remembering both the crimes of the executioners and the feats of the rescuers.

The traditional March of the Living will take place at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius on Wednesday to honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust.

A conference on As Mass Murder Began: Identifying and Remembering the Killing Sites of Summer-Fall 1941 is starting at the Vilnius Gaon Jewish State Museum on Wednesday.

Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, has proposed envisaging separate funding of maintenance of the Jewish heritage, an idea supported by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.

The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO), which in previous years identified certain irregularities in the use of compensation funds for Jewish religious communities' immovable property, says that the latest audit of the Good Will Foundation, which administers the money, has revealed no problems.

As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpr...