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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

Actress and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey poses with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN)

January 9, 2018, 8:41 am

Oprah Winfrey would probably be a pro-Israel president

The media personality’s positive relationship with Jewish leaders and the Jewish state stretches back at least a decade

By Ben Sales

December 22, 2017, 11:04 pm

Man tied to 1944 murder of Jewish teen in Budapest dies at 96

Australia’s Charles Zentai was detained in 2009 after Hungary demanded his extradition in the case, but the request was denied by local authorities

By JTA

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

December 8, 2017, 11:33 am

Budapest’s Dohany Street Synagogue to receive European heritage status

Commission says 158-year-old house of worship, birthplace of Neolog Judaism, ‘symbolizes European ideals, values, history and integration’

By JTA

Thom Yorke, lead singer of British rock band Radiohead, brought by Naranjah to performin Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on July 19, 2017, responded vehemently last summer to attempts by the BDS movement encouraging Radiohead to cancel (Courtesy)

July 20, 2017, 3:15 pm

Creeps, bleeps, and sweeps

From Radiohead to German submarines to Temple Mount security screening, the Hebrew-language media has a tough time deciding which story deserves top coverage

By Adiv Sterman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting on July 9, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/Flash90)

July 20, 2017, 1:43 pm

Security cabinet to meet over Temple Mount tensions

Some 8,000 rally in Tel Aviv over anti-gay discrimination in adoption; Erdogan urges removal of Temple Mount metal detectors

By TOI staff

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