Exploring Vilnius: the Jerusalem of Lithuania and its Jewish past

A walk through Vilnius reveals a city of cobbled streets and cafés layered over Jewish heritage, from the Vilna Gaon’s legacy ...
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Holocaust Museum LA Knew What Lithuania Was Doing

Lithuania has repeatedly used a survivor-founded museum as cover for Holocaust distortion. The museum was warned, and kept ...
The Times of Israel

Lithuania Cannot Criminalize Jewish Memory

The Fridman prosecution is not law. It is state mythology enforced by criminal statute. Lithuania does not merely remember the Forest Brothers. It mandates selective and creative fictional memory. It ...
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Jewish Property May Become Issue in Lithuania’s Presidential Campaign

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 ...
The Forward

Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery

(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 ...
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Lithuanian Jewish Leaders Want Party in Antisemitism Row Blocked

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an ...
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Around the Jewish World One of Lithuania’s Few Jews Fights to Rebuild Vilna Ghetto

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

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (JTA) — A Jewish group is outraged by ...
Jewish Journal

Lithuanian mayor dismantles building made from Jewish headstones

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 ...
The Forward

Lithuania Agrees To Pay $47M for Jewish Property

Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis ...
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Jewish philosopher honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era

(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 ...