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The Parliament on Thursday voted to support a recommendation for impeachment of MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis accused of antisemitism.

The State Security Department (VSD) has stated that emails with bomb threats sent to Lithuania’s schools and kindergartens represent a coordinated and deliberate attack by hostile countries. The police stated that the number of emails with bomb threats in the Russian Language has reached 633.

Lithuanian police announced that education establishments have been receiving mass bomb threats on Friday morning.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has urged to refrain from attempts to reinterpret the consequences of World War II, especially regarding the sufferings and losses of the Jewish nation.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has decided not to go to a major Holocaust commutation event in Jerusalem, but will pay homage to the Jewish victims in Auschwitz, in Poland, next Monday, his office said on Tuesday.

Kaip galėtų Saudo Arabija, šalis, turinti trečią didžiausią pasaulyje karinį biudžetą ir šešis JAV gamybos „Patriot“ raketinės gynybos sistemų divizionus, neapsaugoti itin svarbios naftos pramonės, nuo kurios karalystė priklauso?

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.

Nuo 2009-ųjų metų organizuotas ir Baltijos šalyse analogų neturėjęs Klezmerių muzikos festivalis, pristatydavęs Lietuvos miestų ir miestelių publikai ne tik muziką, bet ir žydų kultūrą plačiąja prasme, verčia naują savo istorijos puslapį ir tampa „Jewish Art Festival In Lithuania“.

Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), on Thursday night reinstalled the memorial plaque removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in central Vilnius in July.

Archeologists have found the bases of two columns of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Vilnius Municipality announced on Friday.

A preventive claim was filed in the District Court of Vilnius City to prevent reconstruction works on the territory of the Concert and Sports Palace that would desecrate the Old Šnipiškės (Piramont) Jewish Cemetery and the human remains surrounding the sports palace in all directions, and mixed into...

Lithuania's three presidential candidates leading opinion polls do not rule out that the state may compensate Jews who lived in Lithuania before World War Two for their lost private property.

Уже в течение года от Центра исследования геноцида и резистенции жителей Литвы требуют оценивать сложную и болезненную историю Литвы не в рамках методов историографии, не по историческим фактам, а в соответствии с желаниями отдельных лиц.

Vilnius which is changing every day makes every effort to preserve values of cultural heritage – archaeological explorations of the complex of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius (at Vokiečių g. 13A) started on 12 July, and on 2 - 6 September, creative workshops for preserving its heritage will be held. ...

Lithuania will commemorate the Jewish Genocide Memorial Day this year by reading the names of the Holocaust victims out loud, with the reading to kick off in Merkine this past Sunday and continue in Vilnius and Kaunas next week.

A new tender should be called by this fall for construction of a Congress Center to replace the former Vilnius Sports Palace, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says, adding that no museum of Jewish history would be opened there.

The Jewish Community of Lithuania re-elected Faina Kukliansky for the second term as its chairperson at an election on Sunday, while her competitor Simonas Gurevicius dismissed the vote as unlawful and pledged to turn to court.

Nearly three thousand participants walked this day to pay tribute to the over 2,000 Jewish Lithuanians - 700 adults and 1463 children - who were murdered here on August 29, 1941.

August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event - unpretending...

European Days of Jewish Culture are starting in Lithuania on Friday, providing an opportunity to discover the Jewish heritage in events scheduled in 16 towns and cities across the country, the Cultural Heritage Department said.