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Screen capture from video of Israeli kickboxer Ahavat Hashem Gordon celebrating his victory over Turkish opponent Ali Koyuncu at the UTMA 17 event in Lithuania, February 21, 2026. (One via YouTube)
February 22, 2026, 7:23 pm
Israeli kickboxer beats anti-Israel Turkish foe
Ahavat Hashem Gordon wins technical knockout against Ali Koyuncu, who had baited him with anti-Israel posts ahead of fight; remains undefeated in professional career
By Stuart Winer
People protest at Independence Square outside Parliament in Vilnius, Lithuania, against the inclusion of the Nemunas Dawn party and Remigijus Zemaitaitis, accused of antisemitism, into the country's ruling coalition, November 21, 2024. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)
December 9, 2025, 6:59 pm
Lithuanian party whose leader convicted of anti-Jewish hatred to stay in coalition
Ruling party says it will wait until appeal to decide future of populist Nemunas Dawn, whose head was found guilty last week of incitement against Jews, Holocaust revisionism
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Leader of the Lithuanian Nemuno Aušra party Remigijus Žemaitaitis speaks during a press conference after the signing of a coalition agreement in Vilnius, Lithuania, on November 11, 2024. (Petras Malukas / AFP)
December 4, 2025, 3:05 pm
Lithuanian court convicts leader of coalition party of inciting hatred against Jews
Judge fines Remigijus Žemaitaitis 5,000 euros, says populist party chief downplayed the Holocaust, used language that ‘violated human dignity and demonstrated hatred’ toward Jews
By AP
Israel's Yishai Oliel returns the ball to Germany's Maximilian Marterer of during a Davis Cup qualifier tennis match between Israel and Germany in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
November 16, 2025, 12:36 pm
International tennis games to return to Israel in February for 1st time since Oct. 7
Israel Tennis Association lauds ‘historic’ unanimous decision by sport’s governing body to let national team host Lithuania in Davis Cup playoffs following Gaza ceasefire
By ToI Staff
The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed conference center. (Flickr Commons via JTA)
July 31, 2025, 12:05 pm
Lithuania goes back on pledge to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site
Soviet ‘Sports Palace’ built on the site of a historic Jewish cemetery will become a convention center, in decision Jewish group says ‘casts a shadow’ on Holocaust remembrance efforts
By Grace Gilson
Leader of the Nemuno Aušra (Nemunas Dawn) party Remigijus Žemaitaitis, speaks at a press conference after a first round of Lithuania's parliamentary election, in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 14, 2024. (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)
November 10, 2024, 10:45 am
Lithuanian party whose leader is on trial for antisemitism joins government
Nemunas Dawn head Remigijus Zemaitaitis resigned from parliament over accusations of stirring up hatred against Jews; US, German officials pan party’s inclusion in coalition
By Agencies
Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)
September 4, 2024, 9:30 am
New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten
Chris Heath’s ‘No Road Leading Back’ pieces together the Ponar massacre in detective-like fashion, including a daring escape of 40 prisoners through a secret tunnel in 1944
By Matt Lebovic
Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
Joseph Avi Yair Engel, right, whose parents were Holocaust survivors and whose grandson was released from captivity in Gaza, speaks at rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages, in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 28, 2024, 4:31 am
Holocaust traumas, modern failings echo at rallies for hostages, against government
As world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, stories of survivors and rescuers take center stage at weekly gathering; six arrested as anti-Netanyahu protesters attempt to block roads
By Canaan Lidor
A view of an opening event for the Vilnius 700th anniversary events in the Lithuanian capital, January 25, 2023. (Gabriel Khiterer via JTA)
October 28, 2023, 1:16 am
As Vilnius celebrates its 700th anniversary, Lithuanian Jews commemorate a darker one
A thriving Jewish center for hundreds of years, the city saw its Jews decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators, a history not all Lithuanians are willing to confront
By Emily Tamkin
Jonathan Brent, executive director and CEO of YIVO, and Gitanas Nausėda, president of Lithuania, examine holdings in the Strashun Rare Books Room at YIVO's New York headquarters, Sept. 18, 2023 (YIVO: Melanie Einzig via JTA)
September 21, 2023, 1:28 pm
Lithuania president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and post-Holocaust
Gitanas Nausėda as guest of honor at small New York ceremony: ‘These acts [of rescue] are without any doubt unique examples of universal human principles to fight the evil’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė's speaks at the American Jewish Committee's Global Forum event in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 11, 2023. (Courtesy of AJC)
June 12, 2023, 6:37 am
In Tel Aviv, Lithuanian PM extols Israel alliance but sidesteps Nazi collaboration
Holocaust expert calls Ingrida Šimonytė’s speech at AJC confab ‘pathetic’ for ignoring country’s role murdering Jews; Vilnius urges Israel to help Ukraine fend off Iranian drones
By Canaan Lidor
Lithuanian lawmaker Remigijus Žemaitaitis stands in the Seimas, thee national parliament, in 2019. (Courtesy of the Order and Justice party)
May 12, 2023, 2:31 pm
Lithuanian lawmaker in hot water after quoting song urging kids to kill Jews
Reacting to Israel’s razing of a Palestinian school, right-wing politician says local and Israeli Jews are to blame for antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor
Gabrielius Landsbergis in 2021. (CC BY-SA Ragaiselis/Wikimedia Commons)
March 4, 2023, 2:21 am
Lithuanian FM: Europe watching Israel’s judicial overhaul with growing concern
Concluding visit, Gabrielius Landsbergis also says a consensus is building to designate Iran’s IRGC as a terror group amid its cooperation with Russia in Ukraine
By ToI Staff
Grigory Kanovich wrote dozens of works about the Lithuanian Jewish experience. (Courtesy of Sergey Kanovich/ via JTA)
January 24, 2023, 10:13 am
Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93
Born in 1929 in the shtetl of Janova, an almost entirely Jewish village just north of Kaunas, the writer and his family escaped the Holocaust in Soviet-controlled Central Asia
By David I. Klein
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