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The Rogatchi Foundation is pleased to inform that its Humanist of the Year 2018 Award will be handed to the prominent Lithuanian cinematographer Saulius Beržinis on March 26th, 2019, at the special ceremony in Vilnius at the Embassy of Finland in Lithuania. The celebrating event is organised by the ...
Faina Kukliansky, chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL), on Friday voiced her indignation over remarks by the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats' (HU-LCD) presidential candidates about Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer accused by some of collaboration with the N...
The local Jewish community in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai, which plans to rebury recently-discovered remains of their ancestors, says it is facing resistance from the Jewish Community of Lithuania. The latter says it only wants to keep things in order and ensure that rites are performed by...
Pope Francis will say a silent prayer in the place of former Vilnius Ghetto 75 years since its liquidation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about a friendship between "two small democracies" as he met with the Jewish community of Lithuania on the last day of his visit to Vilnius on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to pay a visit to Lithuania this week, Lithuanian government officials confirmed to BNS on Monday.
Russian billionaire and owner of London Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich visited Vilnius this week, the 15min.lt news website reports on Thursday.
Archeologists have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday.
The Jewish Community of Lithuania is holding its annual conference in Vilnius on Monday when the Community's financial and activity reports will be approved.
Around one hundred people on Wednesday took part in the 11th March of the Living to honor the memory of the Holocaust victims.
On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr I...
A new regional Jewish community is being founded in Vilnius, to be led by long-standing president of Lithuanian sports club Makabi, Semionas Finkelsteinas.
As different institutions of Lithuania disagree on the future location of a monument to rescuers of Jews, an official of the government will work to align the positions.
Some of the members of the Jewish Community in Lithuania on Friday expressed no-confidence in Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the community whom they accused of authoritarian rule and undue use of money earmarked by the state.
As the Lithuanian parliament readies to discuss ways of marking the Year of Jews, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Jewish Community in Lithuania, has expressed astonishment over failure to discuss the initiative with the organization.
Top leadership of the Lithuanian parliament will Friday look into the situation surrounding Vigilijus Sadauskas, chief of the Service for Academic Ethics and Procedures, who proposed a reward to those who establish crimes committed by Jews in 1900s, a move the Jewish Community of Lithuania dismissed...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Friday urged Vigilijus Sadauskas , ombudsman for academic ethics and procedures, to step down amid allegations of anti-Semitism after he proposed a reward for a research thesis about Jewish crimes in the 1900s. Sadauskas plans to stay on.
Vilnius and Panevėžys will Friday pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Holocaust, with events for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in other cities of Lithuania.
Heritage officials and members of Lithuania's Jewish community note that an increasing number of municipalities are taking the initiative to clean and maintain uncared-for Jewish cemeteries and memorial sites, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday.
