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


Lithuania pledges to publish names of 1,000 suspected Holocaust perpetrators

State museum on genocide says will try to publish book this year naming local Nazi collaborators.

Lithuanian collaborators (with white armbands) arresting Jews in July 1941

More Than the Sum of Our Days

The Jerusalem Post

Meet the Ambassador: An ambassador at home in Israel

Lithuanian envoy Edminas Bagdonas marks his year representing his country in Israel by organizing visits from his prime minister and president.

LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR Edminas Bagdonas

Speakers at anti-Semitism confab accused of Holocaust distortion

“As far as combatting anti-Semitism, local institutions can be characterized as totally worthless in terms of fulfilling their ostensible function in Lithuanian society.”

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

Israeli researcher to attend opening of Gandhi-Kallenbach ‘monument of friendship’ in Lithuania

Statues of Gandhi and Kallenbach have been placed near a historic synagogue on a river bank in the small western town of Rusne, near the Russian border.

THE STATUES of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach due to be unveiled on October 2

Lithuania posthumously strips Nazi collaborator of honors

Pranas Končius-Adomas is stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis "in response to an appeal by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.”

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilnius announces plan to buy land parcel in Jewish graveyard

Jewish groups slam statement issued over Rosh Hashana.

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

Lithuanian PM to Post: Vilnius one of Israel’s ‘strongest partners’ in EU

Butkevicius says ‘no equation’ between Holocaust and Soviet-era crimes and repression.

Algirdas Butkevičius

Lithuania and the rewriting of history

The Lithuanian government ties to minimize the highly significant role of local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes.

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

Cemetery controversy ‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ say Lithuanian Jewish leaders

The Lithuanian organized Jewish community minimized the concerns of opponents of the plan, calling it the “best way to honor the memory of the dead."

Vilnius, Lithuania