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


Humanistic philosophy in action

The true test of Raoul Wallenberg’s important legacy.

Raoul Wallenberg

Nine Democrats ask Trump to cancel meeting with Hungarian leader

Trump and Netanyahu have warm relations with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is welcomed to Jerusalem by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 19

Hungarian cinema to be celebrated at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem cinemas

The films that will be shown have subtitles in English and Hebrew.

THE AMBASSADOR TO BERN

Diary of a Holocaust-era teenager Eva Heyman brought to life on social media

The film progresses to relate the progressing nightmare of Jews in Hungary during the war, and how Heyman’s world was shattered by the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944

The story of Eva Heyman, a Hungarian Jewess living through the Holocaust, has brought to life on social media.

Hannah Senesh's last letter

In the letter, Hannah Senesh writes that she is "quite 'O-K', and that's all".

Hannah Senesh's last letter.

Raoul Wallenberg – the end of a dream

Nina was Raoul Wallenberg’s younger half-sister, born nine years after him.

Raoul Wallenberg

Scammers steal $437K from synagogue renovation project in Hungary

Hungarian Jewish group Mazsihisz, which is coordinating the renovation, became aware of the fraud last month.

Jewish visitors pray in the synagogue in the village of Mad, Hungary, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016.

Scammers steal $437K from synagogue renovation project in Hungary

Scammers stole the equivalent of $437,000 in government funding from Hungary’s largest Jewish group for the renovation of a Budapest synagogue.

Jewish visitors pray in the synagogue in the village of Mad, Hungary, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016.

Furor over Danube remains search deepens

The Mazsihisz federation of the Neolog community issued a statement last week stating its opposition to the search, said that the project was “superfluous” and “contrary to Jewish law.”

A World War Two memorial of mass killings on the banks of the Danube River is seen in Budapest, February 11, 2014. A main Jewish group in Hungary has recently voted to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation

Top Budapest Rabbi opposes recovery of remains from Danube

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri blasts non-Orthodox Hungarian community for opposing search for remains of Holocaust victims.

Deri, escorted by ZAKA divers, is standing at the banks of the Danube in Hungary