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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Entering the former Jewish area of Vilnius' Old Town. Photo Credit: TW photo by Johanna Jainchill Vilija Malinauskaite, CEO of Vilnius-based tour provider Travel Deli, was a student collecting stories ...