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


Litvaks, Jews in Lithuania and antisemitism

Lithuania’s Jews persevere

Fania Brancovskaja, Vilna’s last Holocaust survivor, in the library of the Yiddish Institute of the University of Vilnius

In honor of Lituanian memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust

During the Nazi occupation of 1941-44, the order in Lithuania was so efficient, that there were almost no Germans in the local administration or police.

The Jewish cemetery of Šeduva, a Lithuanian town once home to a majority of Jews

Letters to the editor: August 28, 2018

Letters

Haredi parties split up in Jerusalem elections, first time in 30 years

The two haredi parties run on the joint ticket of United Torah Judaism in many municipalities around the country and have run together nationally in the UTJ alliance since 1992.

MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) speaks at a finance committee meeting on January 15th, 2018

Lost Shtetl Museum breaks ground in moving ceremony

Lithuanian president: The museum will bring back the names and faces of many families, friends and neighbors

Lithuanian students to lay the memorial capsule into the foundation of The Lost Shtetl Museum

Lithuanian bill would ban books critical of the country

The proposed law is said to be "one of the most blatant and harshest" laws curtailing free speech in Europe.

Vilnius, Lithuania

From darkness to the light

Lithuanian Jews helped build the country, and their legacy remains an integral part of Lithuanian history.

A RED ROSE is pictured during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai, near Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012.

Japan PM Abe honors 'Japanese Schindler' in Lithuania

The visit to Lithunia is the first by a Japanese prime minister and comes as Japan seeks greater cooperation with countries that were former adversaries in World War Two.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits a former home of Chiune Sugihara, a Jew-saving Japanese diplomat in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Lithuanian court nullifies Jewish community elections

The Dec. 21 ruling is the latest development in the fight against what many Lithuanian Jews consider a power grab by the community’s president, Faina Kukliansky.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Who will lead the Haredim?

The future of Haredim after the passing of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak