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A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the ...
In the face of the Soviet Union – an empire that former US President Ronald Reagan famously called the “evil empire” for its ...
Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis ...
The Eastern European country has never punished one of its citizens for participating in the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust; yet, it is now prosecuting a Jewish citizen ...
(Bloomberg) -- Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. The ...
Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension". The move ...
KOBE -- A descendant of a Jewish family who fled to Japan from Lithuania during World War II using visas issued by a Japanese diplomat visited her rel・・・ ...
The chief rabbi of Lithuania said he is considering splitting the community over a disagreement with its lay leader about plans for construction atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery. Chaim Burshtein ...