Recent archaeological excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna have unearthed significant findings that shed light on both its grandeur and its destruction. Built in the 17th century ...

The city of Vilnius marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Vilna Gaon Elijah ben Solomon Zalman by offering a virtual tour of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was destroyed under the ...

The Great Synagogue of Vilna was built in the 1630s. Jon Seligman / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius have found sacred objects from the Great ...

More than three-quarters of the 80,000 Jews who remained in Vilna under Nazi occupation were executed last month in a mass-slaughter which has no equal in Jewish history, according to an eye ...

“Vilna: A Resistance Story” is a new musical about Vitka Kempner, a 19-year-old Jewish girl who inspired the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaus ...

(JTA) — A new excavation has unearthed parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, once the oldest and most important building for Lithuanian Jews before it was destroyed by the Nazis and razed by ...