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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Slomo Koves

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
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
October 12, 2021, 3:18 pm
European countries with most antisemitic attitudes have fewest attacks – poll
Respondents from Poland, Hungary and Greece most hostile to Jews, but violent assaults rare in those locations; places where Jews are accepted have most incidents
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kosher slaughterers arrive in Hungary on April 20, 2020. (Courtesy EMIH/ Nezer Hakashrut)
May 6, 2020, 4:13 pm
Hungary okays pre-screening to let in slaughterers, avert kosher meat shortage
Community expects to process a million chickens by year’s end, supply other European Jewish centers, as government allows vetted staff from Israel, Belgium to skip quarantine
By Yaakov Schwartz
Members of the EJA delegation in front of the gates of Auschwitz, January 21, 2020. (Yoni Rykner/ EJA)
January 22, 2020, 4:53 pm
100 European legislators visit Auschwitz, urged to be tougher on anti-Semitism
Ministers and members of parliament attending 2-day Krakow confab are handed drafts of stricter laws on hate speech, education, and Nazi memorabilia trade
By Yaakov Schwartz
Armed guards posted in front of the Izaak Synagogue, Krakow, July 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rabbi Avi Baumol)
July 5, 2019, 3:01 am
A clash between Jews in Krakow highlights growing acceptance of Chabad in Europe
Pictures of a standoff between armed guards and Jewish worshippers in front of a locked synagogue shocked people abroad, but it’s only one side of a lengthy European power struggle
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
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
Hungarian President Janos Ader, center, and his wife, Anita Herczegh, right, are escorted by Maria Schmidt, left, as they tour the House of Terror museum to pay tribute on the memorial day for victims of communism in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, February 25, 2015. (AP Photo/MTI, Tamas Kovacs)
September 18, 2018, 11:06 pm
Hungary’s Holocaust museum triggers bitter conflict between Jewish groups
Most want nothing to do with museum, now being run by Chabad, amid dispute over its chief Mara Schmidt, a historian who has equated Nazism and communism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban meets with a delegation of Jewish leaders on July 6, 2017. (European Jewish Association)
July 15, 2017, 10:18 pm
Hungarian PM vows to protect Jewish rituals
Viktor Orban makes the pledge during a talk with foreign rabbis visiting for the opening of a large kosher slaughterhouse for geese
By JTA
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
January 9, 2013, 5:43 pm
Hungarian prosecutors reject anti-Semitic complaint
Legal establishment says politicians’ description of Jews as a national security risk didn’t amount to incitement
Csanad Szegedi celebrating his entry into the European Parliament after the European parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
August 15, 2012, 12:20 am
Far-right Jobbik Party’s Csanad Szegedi and the glass house
Formerly outspoken Hungarian anti-Semitic politician turns out to be Jewish — making him a pariah in his own party and leaving his political career on brink of collapse
By Pablo Gorondi
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