What happened in Vilna was just a microcosm of atrocities committed throughout Lithuania. By the war’s end, 90 percent of the country’s pre-war Jewish population of a quarter million had been ...

Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have revealed the floor of the main prayer hall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on ...

“The Book Smugglers” weaves the tale of residents of the Jewish ghettoes of Vilna, Lithuania, who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts.

More than 400 recipes in The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook – including for pickles, juices, wines and jams – work at proving that even vegetarians can have a wide, varied and colorful diet.

Holocaust Museum LA, in partnership with The Ebell of Los Angeles, will present a performance of the inspiring musical “Vilna: A Resistance Story,” this weekend. Learn more here!

April 23, 2020, marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon. Sadly, plans to celebrate this momentous milestone in Lithuania and Israel were thwarted by the coronavirus. The ...

‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time Yes, vegetarianism existed in 1930s Lithuania. And one woman wrote a cookbook all about it.

In an unanimous vote by the European Council of Rabbis, Rabbi Kalev Krelin and Rabbi Shimshon Daniel Isaacson have been selected as the new chief rabbis of Lithuania and Vilna.

A twisted piece of iron tells the story of a Polish man who was once among the most popular Jews in Europe. Zishe Breitbart, born in Łódź to a family of blacksmiths, joined a travelling circus and ...

Lithuania does, however, promise to open her frontiers as soon as the Vilna question is settled. Poland rather smiles at the attitude of her less powerful neighbor and declares that she cherishes the ...