Hungarian jews

Hungarian Jewish community extend olive branch to Magyar, including Orban allies

Magyar said on Sunday that he would aim for a "pragmatic relationship" with Israel, but would not provide a blanket block of the European Union's decisions regarding Israel.

Election winner Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza Party looks on, on the day of a meeting with Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok after the parliamentary election, at Sandor Palace in Budapest, Hungary, April 15, 2026.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts onstage as people applaud after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026.

Viktor Orban will always be the man who kept Hungary’s Jews safe - opinion

 (L to R): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu andHungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban (illustration).

Hungary: How politics and familiarity can make culture more open to Jews - interview

Rabbi Shmuel Raskin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Budapest becomes unexpected haven for Israelis as post–Oct. 7 migration surges


Hungarian Jews protest ‘gay propaganda law’

The Golem Theater, a Budapest-based institution that deals extensively with Jewish subjects and has many Jewish members, said on Facebook that it “stands against the propaganda law.”

A demonstrator uses a megaphone during a protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the latest anti-LGBTQ law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021.

This Hungarian coffee cake is even better than babka

Monkey bread is a yeasted cake with origins in the Hungarian Jewish community that came to the United States.

Apple-studded brown butter streusel coffee cake.

Hungary's deputy PM signs funding agreement to support Jewish community

The new funding agreement was referred to as "historic" by Tamás Róna, head of the Hungarian Jewish Prayer Association, noting it will help support Neolog Judaism for years to come.

A Hungarian national flag flutters outside the Hungarian parliament building at a pro-Orban rally during Hungary's National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy, in Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2018.

Holocaust survivor gymnast and rabbi honored with Hungarian Order of Merit

Rabbi Shlomo Koves and Holocaust survivor gymnast Agnes Keleti are among this year's recipients of the prestigious order.

A Hungarian national flag flutters outside the Hungarian parliament building at a pro-Orban rally during Hungary's National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy, in Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2018.

Jewish groups in Hungary fight over historic split of returned assets

The feud is the result of a 1991 law which offered compensation to existing Jewish communities for public assets such as synagogues from before the Holocaust.

THE FUNERAL of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, on Sunday, in Jerusalem. The failure of haredi communities to come to terms with COVID-19, leading to extraordinary high rates of illness and death, requires soul-searching both internally and externally.

Hungarian Jewish community marks 76-years from the Holocaust online

Holocaust survivors, public figures and Hungarian celebrities participated in a unique 76 hours of online education marking the liquidation of the Budapest Ghetto.

Visitors paying their respects to the memory of the Jews of Budapest taken in 2018

Israeli Ambassador to Hungary praises Viktor Orban's government

Ambassador Hadas-Handelsman called the relationship between the Orban government and Hungary's Jewish community strong.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Rival Hungarian Jewish leaders celebrate Hanukkah jointly to promote unity

Mester said the two federations are set apart by “different views and trends” but nonetheless are part of “one nation, one heart” working for common goals.

Members of Hungary's Jewish community gather to celebrate Hanukkah and to light the first candle on the menorah in downtown Budapest, Hungary December 12, 2017.

Jewish poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Gluck’s paternal Jewish grandparents owned a grocery after settling in New York City.

Poetry reading, illustrative

The story of the Resistance Movement in Hungary

As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries.

Hungarian Jews during the Second World War.