The Red Synagogue of Jonava (Lithuanian: Jonavos raudonoji sinagoga), also Beit Knesset Hagadol (Lithuanian: Jonavos Beit Knesset Hagadol sinagoga), was...

The Beit Medrash Hagadol Synagogue (Lithuanian: Beit Midrash Hagadol sinagoga), also known as the White Synagogue of Jonava (Lithuanian: Jonavos Baltoji...

The Jonava Synagogue of Merchants (Lithuanian: Jonavos pirklių sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 28 Klaipėdos Street...

Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, and were instrumental in rebuilding the Yehudah HeChassid Synagogue (also known as the Hurba Synagogue, or "The Ruins")...

The Red Synagogue of Joniškis (Lithuanian: Joniškio Raudonoji sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4a Miesto Square, in...

The Choral Synagogue of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus choralinė sinagoga), officially, Taharat Ha-Kodesh Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, is an Orthodox Jewish...

synagogue was located adjacent to the Red Synagogue of Joniškis. In 1797 the permit to build a synagogue in Joniškis was granted; and the synagogue was...

Synagogue, officially, the Great City Synagogue in Vilna, also the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue...

(Responsa, § 20) of a quarrel that occurred in a Lithuanian community concerning a cantor whom some of the members wished to dismiss. The synagogue was closed...

Khmelnytsky was persuaded not to lay siege to Lviv, in exchange for 200,000 red guldens, according to some sources, but Hrushevsky stated that Khmelnytsky...

congregation and synagogue, or kenesa, located at 6 Liubarto Street, in Žvėrynas, one of the neighborhoods of Vilnius, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania. Designed...

including 85,000 Poles, and 10,000 Jews according to Lithuanian Red Cross. The pace of killings slowed in 1942, as ghettoised Jewish slave-workers were...

The Zamelis Synagogue (Lithuanian: Zamelio sinagoga), also called Zavl's Synagogue, is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 6 Gėlių...

Kaunas Synagogue, also known as the Choral Ohel Yaakov Synagogue (Lithuanian: Kauno choralinė sinagoga), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located...

self-defence of the ghetto population, to sabotage German industrial and military activities, and to support the broader struggle of partisans and Red Army operatives...

shot while trying to escape the burning ghetto. The Red Army occupied Kaunas on August 1, 1944. Of Kaunas' few Jewish survivors, 500 had survived in forests...

has over three thousand students, including those of affiliated institutions, and is considered one of the leading Litvish yeshivas in Israel. Founded in...

The Synagogue of Alanta (Lithuanian: Alantos sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 3a Ukmergės Street, in Alanta, in the...

independent Council of the Land of Lithuania. 1630–1633 – The Great Synagogue of Vilna is founded on the site of Vilnius' original synagogue. 1648 – During...

studying in various batai medrashim ("small synagogues") led by the rosh yeshivas. During the early years of World War II, Elya Meir Bloch and Chaim Mordechai...

collaborators during World War II. A number of Jewish partisan groups operated across Nazi-occupied Europe, some made up of a few escapees from the Jewish ghettos...

The synagogue is an unplastered, red brick structure. It has two main volumes, and is covered with a gable roof of asbestos sheets laid on top of old...

needed] Klimaitis' men destroyed several synagogues and about sixty Jewish houses. In the 1990s the number of victims claimed by Stahlecker was questioned...

of the complete-wholesome ones") is the central Yeshiva (Talmudical academy) of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Founded in 1897 in the town of...

(Slabados) ješiva) was a yeshiva located in the town of Vilijampolės Slabada in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Vilijampolė in Kaunas, Lithuania)...

Qaraite Jewish congregation and synagogue, or kenesa, located at 30 Karaimų Street, in Trakai, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania. Designed in the Baroque...

study of Musar ("Jewish ethics") and self-improvement. The Talmud Torah was founded in the 1860s by Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, known as the Alter of Kelm...

between Ukrainian nationalists and the Russians, as well as between the Red and White armies, and in the yeshiva moved again in 1921, this time to Vilna...

in 1815. The yeshiva's commonly used name, Ramailes, is based on the name of the building's donor who was known as Reb Mailes or Reb Maille. The official...

needs of American Jews. Some Musar groups have no connection with synagogues, but a number of synagogues have started programs for the study of Musar...