Budapest
‘Orphan,’ the new film by László Nemes, tells a bleak story of a Jewish boy in 1950s Budapest
A brilliant, hopeless portrait of troubled childhood, Orphan references the war in nearly every disconsulate frame.
Budapest Jewish community reopens, rededicates 100-year-old historic Rákospalota synagogue
Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, foreign minister says in major break from Viktor Orban era
Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River
Jewish Israeli singer, Muslim Moroccan musician bring North African music to Budapest
Jews of Budapest, Hungary: The rise, fall of 'Judapest'
Jews were once the drivers of modernization in Hungary’s capital of Budapest, dominating its cultural and economic life. Then disaster struck.
KKL- JNF launches an outdoor unique exhibition of Israeli photographs
The exhibitions' opening ceremony was held with the participation of 7th district of Budapest's mayor and president of KKL-Hungary and Central Europe.
Budapest’s Chabad-run Milton Friedman University eyes a major expansion
The school, which goes by MFU, currently has about 700 full-time students, only about 15% of them Jewish. But thanks to a $22 million government grant awarded in May, the school is looking to expand.
IDF officers learn about Herzl, leadership in Budapest
The "Leadership Sees the Future Journey," as the program is called, deals with the importance of formulating a Zionist vision even today.
Sagi Muki loses to Iranian Saieid Mollaei in Grand Slam judo competition
Even though Muki was eliminated from the competition, he and Mollaei showed mutual respect and the two hugged each other after the fight.
Ukrainian refugees celebrate personal exodus during Passover
The Jewish Agency's main Passover Seder took place at the Jewish emergency center in Warsaw, Poland, while another one took place in Budapest for thousands of Jewish refugees from Ukraine.
Jews in Hungary, Moldova, Poland Celebrate Purim with Ukrainian Refugees
Even if not physically, we can fight the war spiritually,” Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves said.
77 Hungarian Holocaust survivors honored on 77th anniversary of liberation
Starting on Monday, January 17 and running for 77 consecutive hours, testimonies from survivors will play on their new website – with a new video being released every hour.
Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo
The story of the museum, whose temporary name is the House of Fates, underlines how the legacy of the Holocaust keeps Jews from being fully integrated into Hungarian society.
