TRNAVA, Slovakia (JTA) — Growing up, Robert Sajtlava remembers playing near what used to be his native city’s Orthodox Synagogue. A rectangular structure with a deceptively unimpressive facade, its ornate ceiling and interior walls suffered extensive damage from the precipitation leaking through the roof and, occasionally, by trespassers who came through the rickety fence. “It…
Hardliners in Hungary’s main right-wing main opposition party demanded on Tuesday that it return to its far-right roots, once notorious for racism and hostility to the European Union, or face an internal split. Jobbik recently adopted a milder right-wing ideology to challenge the increasingly nationalist, eurosceptic Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the…
George Soros’ charitable foundations announced Tuesday that they are leaving Hungary, the New York Times reported. The Hungarian billionaire and philanthropist has been the target of sustained anti-Semitic rhetoric by Hungary’s Prime Minister, Victor Orban. Orban, an avowed nationalist and critic of Western Europe’s embrace of refugees, blamed Soros for much of the country’s economic…
In October 1999, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) won over 27% of the national vote in parliamentary elections and shortly thereafter entered a governing coalition for the first time. I lived at the time as a visibly Hasidic Jew in Vienna and recall the xenophobic campaign that featured billboards with texts such as, “We…
Viktor Orban, leader of Hungary’s far-right Fidesz party was reelected prime minster after his party won a supermajority in Hungary’s parliament, the Washington Post reported. The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the status of democracy in Europe, especially with Orban already having been in power for two terms. Now, with two-thirds of…
(JTA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used language that some critics have said has anti-Semitic undertones at a rally three weeks before he seeks re-election for a third term. Speaking Thursday in Budapest, Orban harshly criticized proponents of immigration. He also called out George Soros, the Hungary-born Jewish financier and philanthropist, and those who…
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…
(JTA) — Churchgoers in Budapest said a senior lawmaker will attend a ceremony honoring the Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy that they are organizing on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The KESZ group, a Christian organization, said this in an invitation for the Jan. 27 event at Budapest’s Main Parish Church of the Assumption, noting it will…
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