Major roads to be blocked, with hundreds of thousands expected at rabbi's burial in Bnei Brak; event could be biggest funeral in country's history; police: Stay at home if possible

Kanievsky, a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers, collapsed at his home earlier

Local rabbi says project suspended after he and others raised concerns it risked unsettling the gravesites of the murder victims

Joint Israeli-Lithuanian six-year excavation in ruins of centuries-old Jewish community center unearths prayer platform, silver pointer used when reading the Torah

Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the 'Vilna Gaon,' who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius

Jewish community blasts move, saying Vidmantas Valušaitis 'has deliberately distorted history,' presenting falsehoods about anti-Semitic actions of local authorities during WWII

Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears

Memorial recounts the story of Chiune Sugihara, who issued transit visas to nearly 6,000 Jewish refugees without his government's approval, allowing them to escape the Nazis

Community leaders say Jewish population became the ethnic group most persecuted by the Soviet occupiers during 'enslavement' of country

Lawmakers seek to honor Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, accused of participating in the 1941 Lietukis Garage massacre in which locals tortured and beat dozens of Jews to death