Beet it for the borscht
Bring home a bag of beets, and discover the rich hues and hidden flavors of this winter root vegetable
View ArticleSWC accuses Lithuania of glorifying pro-Nazi leader
Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis’ government helped German troops send 30,000 Jews to their deaths during WWII
View Article19th-century shul complex restored in Lithuania
After 7 years of repairs, historic Joniskis synagogue reopened to public
View ArticleScroll that survived Holocaust reaches Israel for first time
Nearly complete Book of Ecclesiastes parchment from western Poland is now being studied by researchers
View ArticleLithuanian Jews defend ties with ‘anti-Semitic’ institution
Simon Wiesenthal Center pans cooperation with genocide center for Holocaust memorial as ‘disgrace and betrayal’
View ArticleLithuanian fascists march near Holocaust execution site
500 ultra nationalists converge near location where 10,000 Jews were massacred in one day by Nazis in 1941
View ArticleIn Lithuania, Yiddish teacher unlikely bulwark against far right
Dismissed from Vilnius University, Dovid Katz continues to stand against rising neo-Nazism
View ArticleChief rabbi: Remove headstones from Lithuanian church stairs
Staircase made out of Jewish tombstones at entrance to Vilnius house of prayer was installed under Soviets
View ArticlePart of Lithuania’s power grid coated in Jewish tombstones
Electrical substation, other structures built from pilfered headstones are a grim marker of the country’s anti-Semitic past
View ArticleDancing on Jewish graves in Vilna
A Holocaust survivor decries plans to build a convention center on the site of a historic Jewish cemetery in the Lithuanian capital
View ArticleRadar reveals buried grand synagogue of Vilnius
Lithuanian and Israeli archaeologists find remains of 17th century house of worship burned by Nazis and covered up by Soviets
View ArticleLithuania denies deportation threat against chief rabbi
Interior Ministry says no bar on visit by Chaim Burshtein, who opposes construction of conference center atop former Jewish cemetery
View ArticleLithuania chief rabbi fired in cemetery construction dispute
Community lets Chaim Burshtein’s contract expire after he criticized its president as authoritarian
View ArticleIt’s a Jewish smackdown over Lithuanian site’s alleged graves
The biggest real estate development in Vilnius is the target of a duel between Londoner and local rabbis
View Article78 years later, Lithuanian Jewish woman’s body exhumed in Germany
In rare exception to Jewish law, woman who died en route to the US to be reburied in Chicago next to her husband
View ArticleIs Lithuania ready to own up to its Holocaust past?
New book prompts soul-searching in a country that saw its Jewish community nearly annihilated during World War II
View ArticleHolocaust haunts Lithuanians as painful past comes to light
A series of books and films has triggered national soul-searching by drawing attention to the country’s brutal WWII role
View ArticleThe woman who conjured music from thin air
Jewish theremin virtuosa Clara Rockmore featured on her 105th birthday in today’s Google Doodle
View ArticleHow my grandmother’s chutzpah helped Japan’s consul save thousands of Jews
The story of Rachel Sternheim may answer a long-unsolved mystery surrounding the rescue of 6,000 Lithuanian Jews from the Nazis
View ArticleThe realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews
Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light in Rita Gabis’s book, which explores the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen
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