The paradox is that the Litvaks, with their well-preserved national identity, were able to fully realize their talents only in the rich cultural and artistic environment of Paris.

 Let us pity poor nationalism. All the calamities of the twentieth century are blamed on it.

A Western European thinker who may be legitimately described as a brother-in-arms to Sakharov and Kovalev in their consistent and powerful denial of Realpolitik as a sort of self-comprehending and convenient lie is the French philosopher André Glucksmann.

2011 is the year of Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004). The centenary of the greatest modern Polish poet allows us a glimpse of Eastern and Central Europe at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Lithuania is nearly the only country, in which wooden synagogues still can be found. Worth stressing is the word “still”, since the state of all such synagogues is critical.

Any tragedy has effects perverse and grotesque, yet sometimes positive. No one wishes for them, but once they are present, one cannot avoid them; and once embraced, they do serve a purpose.

The question of religious tolerance is one of the most difficult. It is more difficult than the question of political or ethnic tolerance.

Reminiscences of the translator and witness to the activities of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group (LHG), presented at the international conference Tolerance and Totalitarianism: Challenges to Freedom held in Vilnius.

  Some time ago my book about contemporary Russia „Third Path to Serfdom“ appeared. The name of the book was an allusion to the famous work of the philosopher and economist Friedrich August von Hayek „The Road to Serfdom“

On 22 December 2011 Embassy of Lithuania in cooperation with UNICEF office in Israel held a charity concert by the world re-known, Lithuanian born violinist J. Rachlin.

This is a very important day, November 16th, all around the world the International day of Tolerance is being observed and it's being observed in many different ways.

Judaism teaches that evil inside each of us is renewing every day, and we only have as much good as we manage to accumulate.

Lithuania and its capital Vilnius welcome the day of tolerance with great inspiration. We are grandchildren of the empire of tolerance – the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The speech of the priest from Fransciscans order, the Director of Catholic Radio programme “Mažoji studija” in the international conference in Vilnius “Totalitarianism and Tolerance. Challenges to Freedom”.

The Vilnius Ghetto was liquidated on September 23, 1943. Officially the Jews were gone. The Jerusalem of the North was strangled and we all suffered an irreparable loss.

After the National Revival had started, occurred the question, how to restore a bridge with the times before the war. This was the task firstly taken up by Lithuanians. Yet it was not less significant and problematic to Lithuanian Jews

We gather on this day every year. The painful historic past brings us together on this day, the past that had a tragic impact on our state, the Jewish people, and the destinies of those who lived and continue to live with them.

The word "gaon" means genius and on no person could this title be more appropriately bestowed than on Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna. Rabbi Eliyahu was probably the most influential Jewish leader in modern history.

When I was in sixth grade, I, with hundreds of other boys of Lithuania, went through a selection and was chosen for inclusion in one of the best musical ensembles during the Soviet period, the Azuoliukas choir.