Lithuanian jews

Rabbi Lando: Zionism to blame for Arab hostility, religious IDF troops killed over 'twisted Torah'

UTJ spiritual leader Lando: '[National-Religious Jews] are being killed because their rabbis teach them twisted Torah' • Litvak rabbi says secular Israelis 'have no connection with Judaism'

Rabbi Dov Lando attends a wedding in Bnei Brak, January 15, 2026.
Lithuanian teenagers marched to sites where Jews from their towns were murdered during the Holocaust.

Lithuanian students retrace Holocaust history on memorial day, confront country's role in massacres

The Malisoff family sits for a photo in 1907. Pavel Malisoff and his wife Michla sit in the center.

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

US antisemitism envoy pressures Lithuania to stop construction over Vilnius Jewish cemetery


Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

The writer was well-known for bringing attention to the Lithuanian-Jewish experience.

A memorial candle for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

A memorial candle for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Kaunas, Lithuania: Culture celebration confronts Holocaust memory - opinion

For me, an invited Jewish journalist from Israel, most prominent in my mind is how this Lithuanian city would relate to both the multiple achievements of its Jewish community and its Holocaust memory

  KAUNAS VISTA: Liberty Avenue and the Church of St. Michael the Archangel.

Experiencing the Jewish past, present in Vilnius, Riga - opinion

My experiences in Jewish Vilnius and Riga on the ground, although brief, gave me an extraordinary opportunity to discover meaningful aspects of Jewish life in both places.

 BOYS SELL newspapers in the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, prior to World War II. It’s part of the urban-art project ‘The Walls Remember.’ The image from the original photo was transferred to an exterior building wall within the Jewish quarter to showcase conspicuous vestiges of everyday life.

Israeli med students abroad: 'we'll be forced to take exams on Yom Kippur'

Jewish students at LSMU University shared that they were "forced to participate in classes and/or exams on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, against their traditions and beliefs."

  Israeli medical students at the Jewish Center Kaunas.

Why do we mourn on Tisha Be'av? - opinion

Tisha Be’Av asks the ultimate questions, the same ones which Job confronted: Why do we lose what is most precious? Why do we suffer?

 The menorah from the Second Temple is depicted being carried by Romans on the Arch of Titus.

Two Holocaust memorials smeared with antisemitic, pro-Russian slurs

"The Ponary massacre" took place between 1941 and 1944 near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), About 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians, were murdered.

A memorial marking the massacre site in Ponar

Antique machzor makes aliyah

150-year-old machzor finds its way home

A machzor printed in Vilna, Lithuania in 1876 found its way to the original owner's granddaughter in a long Journey that ended on Tuesday, March 2022.

Lithuania's speaker talks on her first visit to Israel

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, who is also a chess grandmaster, talks about her first visit to Israel.

 Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy welcomes Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen to Jerusalem.

Uncovering a family's tragic Holocaust story

Like many of my generation, brought up in the safe confines of South Africa during and after the Second World War, I assumed that my whole family was as fortunate as my father and his siblings.

 Alka Hill monument with insets of the Hochman family. Top left: Miriam, daughter of Leib and Henia, age 3. Top right: Miriam at 13. Bottom right: Miriam’s brother, Israel, 11. Miriam and Israel were murdered with their mother at Alka Hill in August 1941.