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


The Jewish queens of chess

The story of Hungary’s famed Polgár sisters gains a new lease on life in an Israeli documentary.

Laszló Polgár watches as his daughters Zsuzsa (left) and Zsófia play chess at the family’s Budapest home in the early 1980s

Hungary’s controversial $22 mil. Holocaust museum enters year 3 of disuse

The museum director has said Nazism was no worse than Soviet communism.

The controversial Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary.

A whole new Jew: The antisemite who turned out to be one of the Jews he despised

Csanád Szegedi was a far-right politician, who trivialized the Holocaust and blamed Jews for the wrongs of the world – before finding out that he was one himself.

Former far-right politician Csanád Szegedi at prayer with Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, head of Chabad’s mission in Budapest

Books: Worlds turned upside down

Novelist Joseph Kertes draws from his own life to paint a vivid picture of two young Jewish brothers fleeing Hungary after the failed revolution.

A Jewish family on the run in the ’50s heads from Hungary to Vienna, Paris, then finally Canada

Hungary's Jobbik gets double rebuff for Hannukah greetings to Jews

The Jewish community has been growing in recent years, especially in Budapest, but is worried by resurgent anti-Semitism.

 A member of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party, delivers a speech to hundreds of far-right supporters during a rally against the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Budapest May 4, 2013.

Jewish-born Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at age 99

Although she eventually became a practicing Roman Catholic, the Hungarian-American actress was born to Jewish parents.

Zsa Zsa Gabor ‏

Suspected neo-Nazis vandalize Holocaust memorial in Hungary

Budapest's 'Living Memorial' was reportedly desecrated a few weeks after an article threatening to destroy the site was published on a neo-Nazi website.

The controversial Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungary's Tokaj wine region revives Jewish heritage

From the village of Mád, around 250 Jews were deported. Their properties and vineyards on a plain of volcanic soil near the Carpathian mountains were mostly confiscated.

 Three rabbis, the sons and grandson of a leading Hasidic rabbi Eliezer Ehrenreich walk in the cemetery in the village of Mad, Hungary, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016

The wheat from the chaff

It is time we started sorting the wheat from the chaff and finding answers to our health and nutrition questions from those who are qualified to give them.

Pouring milk

Auschwitz survivor, Hungarian Nobel laureate Kertesz dies aged 86

Kertesz won the Nobel Prize for works the judges said portrayed the Nazi death camps as "the ultimate truth" about how low human beings could fall.

Imre Kertesz