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

Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities (EMIH) public relations director Jonatan Megyeri defended Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's record of supporting the country's Jews.

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

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

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrive to a joint news conference in Budapest, Hungary, September 8, 2025

Hungary rejects European anti-Israel sentiments after foreign minister meets with Israeli official

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel alongside Hungary's Minister for European Union Affairs Janos Boka in Budapest, July 31, 2025.

Deputy FM Sharren Haskel strengthens ties with Hungary in diplomatic visit


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.

Hungary’s Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism causing new Holocaust

It’s an unusual development for Eastern and Central Europe, where leaders of Jewish communities are rarely expelled and seldom express acrimonious public criticism of Israel.

A still from the movie ‘1945’ showing the two Jewish protagonists at a railway station in rural Hungary

Hungary makes lockdown exception for Israeli kosher slaughterhouse workers

The initiative allows one of the only kosher slaughterhouses in Europe operating during the pandemic to remain open.

Kashrut workers arriving in Hungary