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Viktor Orban
May 27, 2021, 4:30 pm
Jewish groups urge PM to raise antisemitism in meeting with Hungary’s Orban
JLM and Masorti Judaism call on Boris Johnson to raise their 'deep concerns' over the targeting of Jewish groups and promotion of antisemitic conspiracies
By Lee Harpin
Judit Vargas
March 28, 2021, 1:15 pm
Hungary ‘leading way to change EU’s attitude’ on Jerusalem capital stance
Justice minister Judit Vargas said it made “every effort to guarantee the life of the community” while lambasting decisions around Europe to ban non-stun slaughter of animals.
By Jewish News Reporter
Billionaire investor George Soros, Photo credit: Sean Dempsey/PA Wire
November 30, 2020, 4:53 pm
Hungarian official retracts article calling George Soros ‘liberal Fuhrer’
Szilard Demeter, one of Hungary’s 32 'ministerial commissioners' said the Jewish philanthropist uses Europe as 'his gas chamber'
By JTA
Rabbi Peter Finali speaks at a Budapest synagogue in 2016. (Peter Finali/YouTube via JTA and Times of Israel)
August 12, 2020, 1:13 pm
Hungarian Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism causing another Holocaust
Rabbinical council of the Mazsihisz umbrella announced in a letter to Israeli Ambassador Yacov Hadas-Handelsman that it was 'terminating its relationship' with Rabbi Gabor Finali.
By JTA
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
March 22, 2020, 1:38 pm
Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary vandalised
Gravestones in the cemetery of Kiskunfélegyháza pushed over and severely damaged,
By JTA
Viktor Orban
January 8, 2020, 11:19 am
Tory aide’s promise of ‘special relationship’ with Hungary’s Orban criticised
Board of Deputies says it has raised concerns over antisemitism, Holocaust revisionism and prejudice from the country's government
By Jewish News Reporter
Budapest
October 24, 2019, 3:45 pm
Activists say neo-Nazis tried to torch a Jewish centre in Budapest
Attempted arson by far-right activists took place at the Aurora centre in the Hungarian capital, with nobody present or hurt inside the building
By JTA
Budapest
September 24, 2019, 3:08 pm
Two new synagogues open in Budapest
Chabad launch two shuls, one in the central area of the capital overlooking the Danube river, and the other in the northern suburb of the city
By JTA
Budapest's Holocaust memorial. Shoes on the river bank
June 4, 2019, 3:13 pm
Jewish officials say Hungary’s Holocaust museum to address complicity
Presentation suggests the museum will deal with Hungary’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Holocaust –
By JTA
Rumbach Street Synagogue (Wikipedia/Thaler Tamas)
February 24, 2019, 12:01 pm
Scammers steal £334K from shul renovation project in Hungary
Fraud took place last month over several phone calls and emails, after suspects reportedly convinced two employees to switch the bank account numbers of a contractor
By JTA
Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky
February 13, 2019, 10:30 am
Hungarian minister in ‘astonishing’ attack on Board after controversial meeting
Top diplomat accuses Jewish representatives of having 'not the slightest respect' for his country and 'whitewashing' Labour's antisemitism row
By Jewish News Reporter
Viktor Orban
February 4, 2019, 4:53 pm
OPINION: Hungary should be judged on what it does not what it says
After being criticised by Hungary's Ambassador to the UK, Jack Mendel argues that the country must change its actions as well as its rhetoric
By Jack Mendel
View of Parliament Building from Buda
February 2, 2019, 5:20 pm
First barmitzvah in in 332 years celebrated at Budapest shul
Yonatan Sebok celebrated his coming-of-age at the Buda Castle Synagogue which reopened last September
By JTA
Photo courtesy ZAKA
January 14, 2019, 4:48 pm
Divers to retrieve bones of Shoah victims from the Danube river in Budapest
Using sonar technology, Israeli search and rescue organisation ZAKA said it had won permission to recover the remains in Hungary this week
By Jewish News Reporter
Members of the New Hungarian Guard stand at a Jobbik rally against a gathering of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest, 4 May 2013 Source: Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Michael Thaidigsmann
December 4, 2018, 2:20 pm
Jobbik deputy leader resigns after recording surfaces of anti-Semitic act
Istvan Szavay stepped down from his positions as deputy group leader and parliamentary notary following the revelations
By JTA
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