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Rabbi Asher Faith carries a new Torah scroll being dedicated alongside the new congregation at the dedication of the prayer space in the Medieval Jewish Prayer House in Budapest, September 6, 2018. (Márton Merész)
September 9, 2018, 2:54 am
In Budapest, a medieval synagogue dormant for hundreds of years is rededicated
As hundreds gather to celebrate the renewal of an ancient prayer house, Hungary’s Jewish community fights for the restoration of similar sites abandoned since antiquity
By Yaakov Schwartz
Young people dance in the rain at the Judafest street festival in Budapest, June 10, 2018.(Marton Monus/ Balint House JCC)
June 11, 2018, 4:59 pm
Thousands in Budapest flock to Jewish street fair in sign of community’s revival
In scene uniting Jews of all denominations, some 10,000 brave thunderstorm to throng Hungarian capital’s touristic Kazinczy street for annual Judafest
By Yaakov Schwartz
Zsuzsa Fritz, director of the Balint JCC in Budapest. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
May 18, 2018, 4:19 am
Hungary’s ‘missing’ Jews come out of hibernation to take community’s helm
As past trauma and current census policy make calculating the number of Hungarian Jews impossible, young leaders engage uncounted Jews like themselves, and welcome them home
By Yaakov Schwartz
Márton Gyöngyösi is vice chairman of Hungary's parliamentary foreign affairs committee and head of international affairs for the Jobbik party. (Courtesy)
April 7, 2018, 9:19 am
Jobbik leader says Jews should trust the radical Hungarian party’s ‘rebranding’
Márton Gyöngyösi, who himself once said Israel was ‘running on a ‘Nazi system,’ insists ahead of Hungary’s contentious elections that his party is no longer racist
By Yaakov Schwartz
Cholent with roast goose leg and home smoked brisket at Fulemule in Budapest. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
February 8, 2018, 6:46 am
Why Budapest is the (treif) cholent capital of the world
Establishments across the city serve up the traditional meat and bean stew every day of the week — but what’s the cause of the Hungarians’ Jewish food craze?
By Yaakov Schwartz
Rabbi Slomo Koves, right, and a participant at Chabad Hungary's 2015 Hanukkah on Ice event take selfies at Budapest's City Park Ice Rink, December 6, 2015. (Courtesy of EMIH/via JTA)
December 17, 2017, 5:47 am
In Budapest, Hanukkah comes out of the shadows and onto the ice rink
In a post-socialist society, a public menorah lighting bridges gaps between Jews young and old, secular and religious
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the garden of Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)
July 20, 2017, 1:45 am
Decrying ‘betrayal,’ Hungary Jews say Netanyahu ignoring them
Highlighting rare chilly reception, community leaders ask why Israeli PM focused speech at Budapest JCC on bilateral ties instead of addressing their concerns about anti-Semitism, status for non-Orthodox
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland, on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)
July 14, 2017, 6:56 am
In visiting Hungary, critics say, Netanyahu puts realpolitik ahead of ties with local Jews
Traveling to Budapest next week, Israel’s prime minister will be seen as embracing a government accused of promoting anti-Semitism
By Raphael Ahren
Barukh Hyman Hidvegi
January 26, 2017, 12:57 pm
Barukh Hyman Hidvegi
In the desert with a hole in my heart
On moving and memory and the very essence of community
Gyorgy Donath's grave in Budapest's Farkasreti Cemetery. (Varga Jozsef/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 24, 2016, 11:30 am
Hungarian Jews oppose statue of anti-Semitic official
Communist opposer Gyorgy Donath, executed in 1947, supported discriminatory laws against Jews during the Holocaust
By AP
David Schwezoff, left, the recently elected leader of the Budapest Jewish community, singing with accompaniment by Cantor Bernard Beer in New York last year. (David Khabinsky/ via JTA)
November 27, 2014, 2:06 pm
Whistleblower leader with very colorful past splits Budapest Jewry
Dynamic Jewish convert David Schwezoff’s credibility questioned after discovery he cross-dressed and performed under the stage name Carol Hore Mohn
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tom Lantos memorial plaque at Szent István Park. (Sam Heller/The Times of Israel)
June 24, 2014, 2:03 pm
Budapest honors congressman Tom Lantos at childhood home
Ceremony remembers the life of the late Hungarian-born US politician, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress
By Sam Heller
A couple walk with the Hungarian and Israeli flags in Budapest on April 27, 2014, during a march commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust (photo credit: AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)
April 30, 2014, 12:28 am
Protesters removed from Budapest WWII memorial site
Holocaust survivors among over 20 people that police physically lifted from the area
By AFP
The Great Synagogue on Dohany Street in Budapest, Hungary (CC-BY-SA, Yelkrokoyade, Wikimedia Coomons)
February 20, 2014, 8:23 am
Hungary backpedals on disputed Holocaust monument
Budapest delays inauguration of Nazi victims memorial, which Jewish groups say glosses over country’s role in genocide
By AFP
(photo credit: large sandwich image via Shutterstock)
June 10, 2013, 3:41 am
Budapest eyes ‘kosh’ sandwich record
Thousands to attend city’s Judafest, view construction of 7-foot snack
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