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Social Democrats leader Vilija Blinkeviciute and a member Gintautas Paluckas attend a press conference after party winning at the general election in Vilnius, Lithuania October 28, 2024.

Lithuania government to include party whose leader is on trial for antisemitism

Vilnius, Lithuania

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA

Lithuania's former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius arrives for a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Yoshiko Noda at the latter's official residence in Tokyo February 20, 2012.

New EU defense chief to fight political battles with military edge

Vilnius center view. Europa tower, Municipality, Swedbank buildings, hotel Lietuva are in the center of photograph. The church of St.Philip and St. Jacob is in the right. National Library is in the left. Viktoria,MG Baltic,Buisness triangle, Ukio bank buildings are in the bottom right-hand corner.

New direct flights from Israel to Lithuania by Air Baltic, begin March 31

By ZIV REINSTEIN

FOUR GENERATIONS of the Engles family attend Eva and David Engles’ 50th wedding anniversary celebration, in Jerusalem, 2021.

‘Megillat Ruth’: The diary of a young woman from Vilna

By ANDREA SAMUELS

Dr. Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority on the colourful floor of the main prayer hall of the Great Synagogue of Vilna.

Archeologists rediscover Vilna's lost Jewish heritage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

People demonstrate on the day of a vote on the motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, February 21, 2024.

By ignoring radical Islamic ideology, 'we will pay for this mistake' Jewish Lithuanian MP says

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

LITHUANIA’S PRESIDENTIAL palace in the foreground, as seen from the tower of Vilnius University.

Vilnius marks 700 years, but Lithuanian Jews reflect on darker era

By Emily Tamkin/JTA

JEWS DIG a trench at the Ponary Forest killing site outside of Vilnius.

Lithuania must acknowledge its role in the Holocaust - opinion

By DANI DAYAN

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at the Lithuanian parliament, September 21, 2023.

Yad Vashem chairman 'encouraged' by Holocaust remembrance in Lithuania

THE GROUP after a Jewish Star replaced a cross at the grave.

Traveling abroad to visit graves of Jews who died overseas

By HESHIE , ROOKIE BILLET

Lithuanian Army soldiers hold Lithuanian and NATO flags during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO in Vilnius, Lithuania March 30, 2019.

What can the Middle East expect from the NATO summit? - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

A member of Lithuanian Riflemen's Union and a Border Guard officer patrol along Belarus border in Kaniukai, Lithuania July 7, 2023.

NATO flexes muscle to protect Vilnius summit near Russia, Belarus

By REUTERS

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda attend a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 28, 2023.

Give Ukraine quick path to NATO after war, Lithuania leader tells allies

By REUTERS

Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda speaks as he attends the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022.

Lithuanian president to meet Zelensky to discuss NATO summit

By REUTERS

The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

'Lithuanian Slaughter of Its Jews': Testimonies from Holocaust survivors - review

By EFRAIM ZUROFF

LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER Ingrida Simonyte and Chemi Peres, chairman of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, chat as they overlook the sea directly below the Peres Center in Jaffa.

Grapevine June 16, 2023: Not really another snub

By GREER FAY CASHMAN