I did it all backward. Instead of taking my research trips before writing my book, like any normal historian would have, I’d waited. Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally ...

“Save Vilna is currently in the process of putting together the Save Vilna Restoration Proposal, which we will be submitting to the government for consideration.” NEW YORK – Zac Levin, a product ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — An international team of archeologists unearthed part of the complex that housed the former Great Synagogue of Vilnius, which Soviet authorities destroyed after World War II. An ...

It’s a shivery winter Shabbat evening and Emanuelis Zingeris is immersed in a spiritual moment at Europe’s largest synagogue. That would be normal enough, except that the Great Synagogue was destroyed ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture. Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of ...

A year-long series of commemorations marking the 120th anniversary of the modern Religious Zionist movement was launched this week with a historic visit of World Mizrachi leaders and representatives ...

Vilna was the center of the Zionist movement in the Soviet Union, hosting the Hibat Zion movement, Poalei Zion Party, and Chovevei Zion conventions. The official leadership of the Vilnius, formerly ...