Opinion

‘In Lithuania, there is institutional and legal antisemitism’

Yet as Lithuania struggles to confront its past, antisemitism is once again finding legitimacy in the country’s present. Seduva, a town of just 2,400 people located about a two-hours’ drive north of ...
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Lithuania’s self-inflicted national security problem

Lithuania did not inherit this credibility problem from its adversaries. It manufactured it itself. This is why the Fridman ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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 Jewish Exponent

Lithuania Passes Law Allocating Nearly $40M for Holocaust Survivors

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, ...
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Around the Jewish World Book on Lithuanian Rescuers Prompts Debate with Nationalists

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 ...
Yahoo

Lithuanian Jewish Leaders Want Party in Antisemitism Row Blocked

(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 ...
Sun Sentinel

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

A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the ...
Business Wire

MyHeritage Adds Lithuanian-Jewish Historical Records in Coordination with LitvakSIG

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 ...
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Lithuania Jewish Community closes Vilnius synagogue over threats

Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension". The move ...
The Forward

Lithuania Church Uses Jewish Headstones as Stairs

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 Journal

Lithuanian festival excludes Yiddish dancers

Next July 6, more than 1,000 Lithuanian folk dancers decked out in authentic woven costumes, representing close to 40 dance ensembles, will perform the windmill, the scarf dance and other traditional ...