VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, ...

Members of the state’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism held its fifth meeting this week in the western part of ...

On Saturday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte joined others in a march from the city’s former Jewish ghetto to Paneriai, the forest site formerly known as Ponary where the Nazis and ...

Which is probably why the European Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community of Lithuania this week highlighted and commended how city officials in Kaunas named a large new cultural and scientific ...

In 1939, Solly Ganor was an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in Kaunas, Lithuania. After a chance meeting with Chiune Sugihara, Solly and his family shared an emotional Hanukkah dinner with the ...

During his time in Lithuania, the Sugiharas quickly became acquainted with many of the local residents, including some Jewish families, who shared with him their fears of the growing Nazi menace.

The exhibition You Shall Not Make an Image. Commandments, Everyday Life and Change is a great opportunity to get versed in the history of Jewish culture and art , it also brings to mind the ...