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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 500

Mazsihisz

Worshipers hold morning services outside the locked doors of the Kazinczy Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, July 21, 2023. (David Kelsey/JTA)
August 21, 2023, 9:51 pm
In Hungary, Orthodox Jews fight over a Chabad bailout some see as a ‘Trojan horse’
Some members of the cash-strapped MAOIH Orthodox community view the assistance by a Chabad-affiliated competitor as a takeover, while others say it’s their congregation’s lifeline
By Canaan Lidor
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses the media during a press conference in Vienna, Austria, July 28, 2022. (Theresa Wey/AP)
July 28, 2022, 11:48 pm
Hungarian rabbis pan Orban speech warning against ‘mixed races’; PM’s adviser quits
Robert Frolich, head of umbrella group, calls prime minister’s remarks against mixing of races ‘a violation of human dignity;’ Orthodox group says they were ‘unfortunate’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets his supporters prior to delivering a speech during the final electoral rally of his Fidesz party ahead of Sunday's election, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Friday, April 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 3, 2022, 3:23 am
Vote for Orban or party with neo-Nazi record? Hungary’s Jews torn on Sunday election
Right-wing populist government is in tight race for power with alliance of opposition parties whose largest contingent comes from far-right Jobbik party
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Chen Ying-hsuan, right, holds Li Li-chen's hand during a military mass weddings ceremony in Taoyuan city, northern Taiwan, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP/Chiang Ying-ying)
December 24, 2021, 1:07 am
Hungarian Jewish group backpedals after coming out against gay marriage
Neolog umbrella group apologizes for signing interfaith statement on sanctification of heterosexual unions, but Chabad-linked organization sticks with support for declaration
By Cnaan Liphshiz
András Heisler is the president of Mazsihisz, an umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities. (Courtesy of Mazsihisz via JTA)
June 25, 2021, 11:55 pm
Hungarian Jews protest law against sharing content on homosexuality with minors
Largest federation of Jewish communities in country criticizes ‘gay propaganda law,’ saying no one should be discriminated against or outlawed because of their identity
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Cantor Immanuel Zucker sings Psalms at the reopening ceremony of the Rumbach Synagogue, June 10, 2021. (Photo by Akos Szentgyorgyi)
June 11, 2021, 4:17 pm
After 60 years of decay Budapest’s grand Rumbach synagogue has new lease on life
Inaugurated Thursday, the richly renovated synagogue compound – a WWII deportation point for Jews sent to their deaths – is now a lively multipurpose Jewish cultural center
By Yaakov Schwartz
George Soros at the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/ Ronald Zak)
November 29, 2020, 4:04 pm
Hungarian official says Europe is ‘gas chamber’ of Soros the ‘liberal Fuhrer’
Cultural commissioner says Poles and Hungarians ‘are the new Jews’ in deadlock with EU; Jewish organizations slam comparison of Holocaust survivor philanthropist to Hitler
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a round table meeting at an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, October 15, 2020 (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)
October 17, 2020, 10:34 am
Hungary’s Orban says Jewish group ignores anti-Semitism as left, far-right unite
PM charges Mazsihisz not speaking out over candidate with history of making racist comments about Jews; group denies claim by Orban, himself accused of fomenting hatred
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Peter Finali speaks at a Budapest synagogue in 2016. (Peter Finali/YouTube via JTA)
August 12, 2020, 1:45 pm
Hungarian Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism will cause 2nd Holocaust
Rabbi Gabor Finali kicked out of Mazsihisz umbrella organization for a statement he later retracted; has also said Jewish state appropriated money of Holocaust victims
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Slomo Koves, right, and a participant at Chabad Hungary's 2015 Hanukkah on Ice event at Budapest's City Park Ice Rink, December 6, 2015. (Courtesy of EMIH via JTA/ File)
November 18, 2019, 9:24 pm
Chabad of Hungary gets status upgrade from government
EMIH group given special designation enabling funding, including grants for educational work that would otherwise be unavailable
By JTA
Some of the 600 members of the Jobbik created extreme-right wing "Magyar Garda" or Hungarian guard stand during their swearing-in ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 21, 2007, wearing black uniforms bearing a variation on the red-and-white Arpad Stripes associated with Hungary's Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross party of WWII (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky
August 13, 2019, 1:56 am
In Hungary, some left-wing Jews ready to work with party led by former neo-Nazi
A common opposition to nine-year rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orban creates strange partnerships, including between Jewish groups and virulently anti-Semitic Jobbik party
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
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
Illustrative: 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)
December 23, 2018, 6:49 pm
Head of contested Hungary Shoah museum takes aim at ‘irresponsible’ opponents
Rabbi Shlomo Koves says plans are still unfinished on the House of Fates, a government-sponsored education center critics say will whitewash Hungarian Holocaust complicity
By Yaakov Schwartz
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