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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

Members of Latvian Auxiliary Police assemble a group of Jews, Liepāja, July, 1941.

Russian media releases declassified documents on the Holocaust – report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė

Lithuanian PM presses Israel on increasing support for Ukraine

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Norway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt attend NATO's informal meeting of foreign ministers in Oslo, Norway June 1, 2023.

NATO squabbles over speedy accession of Ukraine as summit looms

By REUTERS

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference with then-Latvian prime minister Maris Kucinskis, in 2018.

Israel has failed to fight Latvia, Lithuania's Holocaust distortion - opinion

By EFRAIM ZUROFF

The two foreign ministers with the Israeli ambassador Hadas Wittenberg Silverstein in Lithuania and the Lithuanian ambassador Lina ANTANAVIČIENĖ in Israel

Israel and Lithuania renew cooperation agreement in culture and education

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, conducts a service on Orthodox Christmas at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia January 6, 2018.

Eastern Orthodox Church could set up in Lithuania to rival Russian church

By REUTERS