Hungarian jews

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


How the coronavirus is affecting a Jewish mother in Budapest

Hungary, which has about 100,000 Jews, mostly living in Budapest, had 73 confirmed cases of coronavirus and one death as of Friday.

The Obuda Synagogue on the Buda side of Budapest

Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary vandalized

The repairs could cost more than $8 million, Hungary Today reported.

JEWISH CEMETERY in Chernivtsi, Western Ukraine

Hungarian government grants Orthodox Jews formal recognition

The award marks the first time such standing has been given to an Orthodox community since the Holocaust

Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and Rabbi Shlomo Koves, head of the EMIH sign a special agreement, November 18, 2019

New synagogues inaugurated in memory of Danube Holocaust victims

600,000 letters in each Torah represent the 600,000 victims of the massacre.

 Religious leaders fill in the final letters of each newly dedicated Torah.

Hungarian accent

One doesn’t hear so much about Hungarians in Israel since the deaths Ephraim Kishon, Tommy Lapid and Kariel Gardosh, or the return to Hungary three years ago of Olympic gold medalist Agnes Keleti.

Viktor Orban

An unlikely alliance between some left-wing Jews and the far-right

In at attempt to make a change in the Hungarian government, an unlikely alliance has formed.

Members of the Hungarian government vote on the 'Stop Soros' package of bills that criminalises some help given to illegal immigrants, at the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary

Roman coins might shed light on unknown Holocaust victims

The coin collection was found in Hungary and might have belonged to Jewish residents of the Keszthely ghetto.

Coins from exhibition

Humanistic philosophy in action

Thousands of unsung heroes risked their lives every day on behalf of their fellow human beings.

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

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