Hungarian Jews are accusing the Chabad movement of usurping control of their community organization — and its funding and real estate — with the aid of the Hungarian government
Set in Budapest, 'Those Who Remained' focuses on the friendship between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl
(JTA) — A former synagogue in Hungary’s capital city that had not been used as a place of worship in centuries reopened as a Jewish house of worship in a ceremony attended by the country’s president. President János Áder attended the re-dedication and opening ceremony of Buda Castle Synagogue on Thursday as a guest of…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The longtime editor of the Bundist journal Lebns-Fragn and an Israel-correspondent for the Forverts, Yitzhak Luden z”l, used to say that Yiddish today outside of the Hasidic world is a language mainly spoken at festivals. Soon we’ll be able to say that it’s also spoken on river…
A statue unveiled in Budapest this week honors Rep. Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-born Jew who was imprisoned in a forced labor camp during the Second World War. “Tom Lantos called on all of us — not just those in government service, but all citizens, all human beings — to show courage in the face of…
(JTA) — City officials in Budapest shut down the bar and cafeteria of a Jewish community center that is favored by opposition activists, following the discovery of illegal substances during a drug raid there. The closure notice on Wednesday reached the offices of the Aurora community center a little over two weeks after the raid,…
Budapest authorities moved on Wednesday to shutter the Aurora Cafe, which has served as a gathering spot for Hungarian opposition activists and nongovernmental human rights advocates. Authorities cited illegal drugs, but management said the government’s real aim is to muzzle opposition voices. In America, “the Resistance,” as some call the activist opposition to President Trump,…
For over a year now, Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, has been waging an increasingly shrill campaign against billionaire George Soros, using classical anti-Semitic imagery to signal to his listeners that the Hungarian-born American businessman is a shadowy foreign Jew exercising sinister influence over their country. It is an invocation that is deeply ironic on at…
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