Jewish Community of Lithuania

Vilnius police confirmed on Monday a fresh attack on the Holocaust memorial complex in the Lithuanian capital's Paneriai suburb.

The genocide of the Jewish people is a scar on Lithuania and the whole humanity's face, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said during an event held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Representatives of State enterprises Turto Bankas, the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe (CPJCE) and the technical project implementation matched a technical project for the reconstruction and adaptation of the Vilnius Concert and Sports Hall ...

A monument to Jew savers is planned to be built in Vilnius over the next couple of years.

A swastika shaped using soil appeared on the sidewalk close to the main entrance of the Jewish Community of Lithuania's building in central Vilnius on Sunday.

The memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), which was reinstalled in Vilnius on Thursday night at the initiative of nongovernmental organizations, will damage Lithuania's image, says, Fainy Kukliansky, leader of the Jewi...

The Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday announced it was reopening its headquarters and Vilnius Synagogue.

Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says he had no intention to offend the Jewish Community of Lithuania with his words and only wanted to remind the people inciting anti-Semitic moods about the roots of the Catholic religion.

On 5 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius conferred the Foreign Ministry’s award of honor – Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star – on Faina Kukliansky, Chair of the Jewish (Litvak) Community of Lithuania.

The local Jewish community in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai, which plans to rebury recently-discovered remains of their ancestors, says it is facing resistance from the Jewish Community of Lithuania. The latter says it only wants to keep things in order and ensure that rites are performed by...

Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius calls on authorities to take down a memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vėtra (General Storm), over his collaboration with the Nazis.

Pope Francis will say a silent prayer in the place of former Vilnius Ghetto 75 years since its liquidation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about a friendship between "two small democracies" as he met with the Jewish community of Lithuania on the last day of his visit to Vilnius on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the local Jewish community in Vilnius on Sunday, the last day of his visit to Lithuania.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania on Thursday for a historic visit.

Russian billionaire and owner of London Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich visited Vilnius this week, the 15min.lt news website reports on Thursday.

Archeologists have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday.

Archeologist have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday.

The Jewish Community of Lithuania is holding its annual conference in Vilnius on Monday when the Community's financial and activity reports will be approved.

Vilnius and Panevėžys will Friday pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Holocaust, with events for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in other cities of Lithuania.