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Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller is interviewed by German Deutsche Welle TV company during an anti-goverment demonstration in front of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP/MTI,Zoltan Mathe)
July 21, 2019, 5:58 am
Hungarian dissident philosopher Agnes Heller dies at age 90
Jewish Holocaust survivor became a key member of the ‘Budapest School,’ was targeted by communists and later by Viktor Orban
By AFP
Szalai Kálmán (left), head of the Foundation for Action and Defense (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
The Rumbach Street Synagogue (CC BY-SA Thaler Tamas/Wikimedia Commons)
February 22, 2019, 4:00 pm
Scammers steal $437k from Hungarian Jews’ synagogue renovation project
Suspects convinced two employees of the Mazsihisz Jewish federation to wire government-awarded funds to a fake account
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)
February 1, 2019, 10:42 pm
First bar mitzvah in centuries celebrated at reopened Budapest shul
Buda Castle Synagogue had been used as a museum before authorities signed it over to EMIH, the Chabad-affiliated federation of Jewish communities in Hungary
By Cnaan Liphshiz
People visit the new 'House of Fates' Holocaust museum, housed in what was the former 'Jozsefvarosi' railway station in Budapest on January 21, 2019. (Ferenc Isza/AFP)
January 26, 2019, 11:50 am
New Holocaust museum in Budapest divides Hungarian Jews
Dispute over content to be displayed at ‘House of Fates’ coincides with accusations that PM Orban is playing a ‘double game’ with Hungary’s Jewish community
By Peter Murphy
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
The cover of Hungarian magazine 'Figyelo' (Attention) with a portrait of Andras Heisler, head of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is pictured on November 30, 2018, in Budapest. Hungary's largest Jewish organization has condemned 'incitement' against its leader after he was depicted on the cover of a prominent pro-government weekly surrounded by banknotes. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)
November 30, 2018, 6:52 pm
Hungarian Jewish leader shown amid banknotes on cover of pro-government magazine
Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities slams ‘incitement’ against Andras Heisler; Israeli ambassador also protests
By AFP
Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Chabad-affiliated Unified Israelite Congregation of Hungary (EMIH), speaks during a commemoration marking the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Hungary, on April 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
September 8, 2018, 12:14 am
Chabad Hungary joins Holocaust museum project boycotted by other Jewish groups
The House of Fates has been shunned by Jewish organizations over its leader’s equating of Nazism with Soviet communism
By JTA
Yaron Roksa holds pen confiscated by the Nazis from his father at Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944. The pen was returned to the Roksa family by ITS on July 3, 2018. (Laura Ben-David/Courtesy of ITS)
July 11, 2018, 6:34 pm
Nazi-confiscated pen helps ToI track down survivor’s son, rewrite family history
International Tracing Service and Times of Israel journalist jointly find descendants of Istvan Rokza, to restitute his stripped possessions and unearth buried heritage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
A poster with US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, July 6, 2017. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
May 15, 2018, 11:51 am
Soros fund quits Hungary over government’s ‘repressive’ policies
Jewish philanthropist’s Open Society Foundations says it cannot protect its operations and staff from interference, plans to relocate to Berlin
By Agencies
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
Smoke from an airport towing tug at the Ferenc Liszt International Airport on March 23, 2018, which panicked passenger on a flight taxiing for takeoff to Tel Aviv and prompted cabin crew to open the doors to deploy the emergency chutes. Dikla Abitbul, 38, fell from an open door onto the tarmac, sustaining serious injuries.
April 4, 2018, 9:16 pm
Israeli woman who fell out of plane in Budapest flown back to Israel
Mother of two Dikla Abitbul, 38, seriously injured after falling onto tarmac, transferred to Beilinson Hospital for continued treatment
By TOI staff
Screen capture from video showing an airliner after passengers evacuated due to smoke in the cabin, Budapest, Hungary, March 23, 2018. (YouTube)
March 27, 2018, 9:13 pm
Israeli woman fighting for life after falling out of plane door
Dikla Abitbul fell to the tarmac as passengers on flight leaving Budapest for Tel Aviv panicked, tried to escape, when taxiing plane filled with smoke
By Stuart Winer
Regent of Hungary Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (left) with Adolf Hitler, year unspecified (Wikimedia Commons)
January 25, 2018, 4:58 pm
Hungary church scraps mass for Nazi ally on International Holocaust Day
Main Hungarian Jewish group said planned participation of ruling party lawmaker at event ‘tramples on the memory of all the Hungarian victims’
By AFP
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