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


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

Jewish community's political fight taints effort to bury Holocaust victims

How to work with the government is an understandably divisive issue in a country whose government is often accused of encouraging anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The Danube river in Budapest, Hungary

Intensive diving effort fails to find Holocaust victims Danube remains

Hungarian Nazi-collaborators shot tens of thousands of Jews on the banks of the Danube during the Holocaust.

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