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Beet it for the borscht

Bring home a bag of beets, and discover the rich hues and hidden flavors of this winter root vegetable

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SWC accuses Lithuania of glorifying pro-Nazi leader

Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis’ government helped German troops send 30,000 Jews to their deaths during WWII

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19th-century shul complex restored in Lithuania

After 7 years of repairs, historic Joniskis synagogue reopened to public

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Scroll that survived Holocaust reaches Israel for first time

Nearly complete Book of Ecclesiastes parchment from western Poland is now being studied by researchers

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Lithuanian Jews defend ties with ‘anti-Semitic’ institution

Simon Wiesenthal Center pans cooperation with genocide center for Holocaust memorial as ‘disgrace and betrayal’

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Lithuanian 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

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In Lithuania, Yiddish teacher unlikely bulwark against far right

Dismissed from Vilnius University, Dovid Katz continues to stand against rising neo-Nazism

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Chief rabbi: Remove headstones from Lithuanian church stairs

Staircase made out of Jewish tombstones at entrance to Vilnius house of prayer was installed under Soviets

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Part 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

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Dancing 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

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Radar 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

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Lithuania 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

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Lithuania chief rabbi fired in cemetery construction dispute

Community lets Chaim Burshtein’s contract expire after he criticized its president as authoritarian

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It’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

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78 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

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Is 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

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Holocaust 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

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The woman who conjured music from thin air

Jewish theremin virtuosa Clara Rockmore featured on her 105th birthday in today’s Google Doodle

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How 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

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The 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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