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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

In Vilna, Jewish gravestones used to build residences and schools could have become a memoria: ... Jewish gravestone were used to build this school basketball court in Vilna, Lithuania.

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 campaign against the Hasidim was led by Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, known as the Gaon (Hebrew for "great scholar") of Vilna. Bans and excommunications were issued against Hasidism in 1772, and ...

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!