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Rabbi Mihaly Duschinszky sings a prayer at the reopening of the Rákospalota Synagogue in Budapest, September 17, 2026 (EMIH)
'We have a historical responsibility to reclaim them'
Hungary’s abandoned synagogues are finding new life — and attracting new congregants
By Zev Stub
After decades of secular use, two historic Budapest synagogues reopen as part of a Chabad-led effort to reconnect Hungarian Jews with their heritage
Adam LeBor, author of 'Last Days of Budapest.' (Courtesy Zoltan Tuba)
April 22, 2025, 2:38 am
New book portrays a chaotic Budapest just before the Holocaust reached Hungary
‘Last Days of Budapest’ by Adam LeBor features oblivious politicians, Zionist forgers, courageous diplomats and murderous priests in a sad but true history of the Hungarian capital
By Robert Philpot
Rabbi Slomo Koves stands inside the Star of David-shaped elevated corridor at the House of Fates Holocaust museum, housed in a former railway station that deported Jews to concentration camps, seen in Budapest, Hungary, on August 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
November 26, 2021, 10:52 am
Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents
Though completed in 2015, the grandiose building with its towering Star of David remains empty amid an ongoing stalemate between two arms of the Jewish community and the government
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: People attend a ceremony that commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Jewish ghetto in Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on January 19, 2020. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)
January 19, 2020, 6:55 pm
Hungary commemorates 1945 liberation of Budapest ghetto
At ceremony at Dohany Street Synagogue, rabbi speaks of ‘ambivalent feelings’ surrounding anniversary, which contains pain and mourning, but also ‘celebration of life’
By Pablo Gorondi
A man looks at his cellphone at the Aurora center in Budapest, Jan. 12, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 24, 2019, 12:37 am
Neo-Nazis try to torch Jewish center in Budapest, activists say
Aurora community center was empty during attack, sustained minor damage
By JTA
Szalai Kálmán (left), secretary of the Action and Protection League (TEV), at a conference of the organization, November 29, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. (Facebook)
May 29, 2019, 7:23 pm
Budapest Jews to establish their own security service amid anti-Semitism fears
Volunteer group to patrol Jewish district of Hungary’s capital, where drunk tourists have hurled insults at local Jews
By ToI Staff
A ZAKA diver describes the search for remains of Holocaust survivors in the Danube River in Hungary to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in January 2019. (Courtesy of ZAKA)
January 22, 2019, 3:35 am
In Hungary, internal Jewish fighting taints effort to bury Holocaust victims
The most recent dispute over search for remains in the Danube River is part of a larger struggle — over attitudes toward the nation’s controversial government
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
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