Kaunas, Lithuania: Run-Up to the February 16th 2017 Neo-Nazi March on...
Kaunas Mayor & City Council Deciding whether to again allow neo-nazis sporting banners adulating Holocaust collaborators to take over the city center on Lithuania’s cherished February 16th...
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View ArticleDouble Genocide: New and Official Form of Holocaust Denial
OPINION | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | POLITICS OF MEMORY ◊ by Dovid Katz This article appeared today in Jewish Currents: ◊ America was jolted this past summer not only by a neo-Nazi event in Charlottesville,...
View ArticleJoseph Melamed, Major Leader of International Litvak Community, Dies in Tel...
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View ArticleJoe Melamed, Litvak Champion (Images from the Last Years)
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View Article21st Century Lowpoint for Israeli Diplomacy? Ambassador Poses with Photos of...
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View ArticleTwo Perspicacious Comments in Today’s Issue of “The Weekly of Vilnius”
OPINION | MEDIA WATCH | FOREIGN MINISTRIES AND HOLOCAUST ISSUES | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS | VILNIUS JEWISH LIFE | ISRAEL PAGE | ISRAEL SECTION | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED ◊ VILNIUS—With...
View ArticleTake Note, Historians of Israeli Diplomacy: Betraying the Truth about the...
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View ArticleChief Rabbi of Israel Pleads with Lithuania’s President to Abandon Plans for...
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View ArticleAn Opportunity for Leaders of Israel’s “March of the Living” in Vilnius
OPINION | ISRAEL ISSUES | PONÁR | POLITICS OF MEMORY ◊ VILNIUS—This week, Wednesday the 23rd of May, as for a number of years, Vilnius and its Jewish community will be welcoming a group of truly...
View ArticleLingering Discussions of Netanyahu’s 23-26 August 2018 Visit to Lithuania
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View ArticleSept. 23rd Ponár Memorial and Pope Francis’s Visit to Vilna Ghetto Memorial
OPINION | EVENTS | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS | HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS | VILNIUS JEWISH LIFE ◊ ◊ VILNIUS—The two major “September 23rd” events today in Vilnius were the annual commemoration...
View ArticleIsrael’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Joel Lion, Speaks Out with Bold Integrity on...
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View ArticleIsrael’s Interior Minister Protests Desecration of Old Vilnius Jewish Cemetery
OPINION | ISRAEL CHRONICLE | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS | HUMAN RIGHTS | CEMETERIES | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT | PETITION ◊ JERUSALEM—In a...
View ArticleTale of Two Lands: Ukraine’s and Lithuania’s State Policies of Glorifying...
◊ Israel’s Ambassador Joel Lion in Ukraine Boldly Condemns Annual Parade Glorifying Holocaust Collaborator Stepan Bandera; JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz Reports But at same time, Israeli Foreign Ministry...
View ArticleYitzhak Arad, World War II Partisan Hero, Veteran of Israel’s War of...
Yitzhak Arad (originally Rudnitzky), a native of Svintsyán (Švenčionys, Lithuania, some 90 km north of Vilnius) passed away peacefully in Tel Aviv on Thursday. He was laid to rest Friday at Kibbutz...
View ArticleIsraeli Association of 2nd and 3rd Generation Survivors Calls for Action from...
JERUSALEM—On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed today internationally, Dorot Hahemshech, Israel’s largest association of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, issued a call...
View ArticleTel Aviv’s Leyvik House Issues Call to World Jewish Congress on Vilnius...
TEL AVIV— Daniel Galay, director of Leyvik House in central Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s major Yiddish culture institutions, issued the following statement today on the Leyvik House website (copy), and...
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