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(JTA) — Hungary is nearing one of the most dramatic general elections in its history, so Peter Pretz has given some serious consideration to how he’s going to vote on April 3. The 64-year-old Jewish father of five from Budapest has finally reached a decision: He’s voting for the Two Tailed Dog Party, which was…
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s most-watched political commentator, has decided to broaden his scope from the U.S. to Hungary with a new documentary feature investigating “how one nation stopped George Soros from undermining civilization.” Arriving Wednesday on Fox Nation, Fox’s streaming service, “Hungary vs. Soros: The Fight for Civilization” is the season finale of “Tucker Carlson…
In an op-ed in Hungary’s pro-government outlet Origo, a Hungarian minister compared George Soros to Hitler on Saturday, calling the Hungarian-born Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor “the liberal Führer” before retracting his comment and deleting his Facebook page. “Europe is George Soros’ gas chamber,” wrote Szilard Demeter, ministerial commissioner and head of the Petofi Literary…
I found the Tállya cemetery, located kilometers away from the village of Tállya, in northeastern Hungary, by chance. I am a Christian scholar researching Jewish culture, and I have been photographing Hasidic pilgrimages in nearby Kerestir, Olaszliszka and Sátoraljaújhely and elsewhere for years. I often visit the area, and discovered the cemetery thanks to a…
Sebastian Gorka, a previous White House adviser and the subject of a wide-ranging, award-winning 2017 investigation by the Forward, has been appointed to serve as a member of the National Security Education Board, which oversees a program that partners with educational institutions to teach students foreign language skills and cultural competencies. The Forward’s investigation found…
This February, homeowners in Keszthely, Hungary were working on renovations when they stumbled on a potentially historic find. While digging a hole in their cellar, the building owners discovered five sealed glass jars containing 2,800 gold and silver coins, many of them dating back to the Roman Empire. The question of to whom the coins…
A new Instagram account is dedicated to educating younger generations about the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported. Eva. Stories is based on the journal of real 13-year-old Jewish victim Eva Heyman, one of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Mati Kochavi, an Israeli high-tech billionaire and descendent of victims, survivors and educators,…
(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
Hybrid: Online and at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Oct 2, 2022
6:30 pm ET ·
A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.
