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Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews

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This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the...

Top Hungarian diplomat confirms Budapest issued passports to five hostages

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Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which is roiling the Middle East, has become the “No. 1 issue” of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council, Budapest’s top diplomat told JNS on Wednesday. Péter...
Community members unveil a plaque at the reopening of the Ohel Ezster synagogue in Budapest, Sept. 5, 2023. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungary’s Jewish renaissance

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Another Budapest synagogue rose from the ashes last week thanks to Chabad of Hungary. It was the tenth to do so, marking a Hungarian Jewish renaissance that began some 10 years ago, breathing new...
Lufthansa check-in at an airport terminal. Credit: Oleksandr Lutsenko/Shutterstock.

German airline to appoint anti-Semitism manager after keeping Jews from flight

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Lufthansa Airlines will hire an anti-Semitism manager and adopt the International Human Rights Commission’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident that garnered international attention, in which more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals were barred from a flight on...
Lufthansa aircraft at ground ready for boarding during the reduced traffic situation due to corona at Frankfurt Airport, June 8, 2022. Credit: travelview/Shutterstock.

‘Say yes to the world’ but no to the Jews: Lufthansa’s anti-Semitic scandal

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It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a...
Lufthansa airlines plane. Credit: TJDarmstadt via Wikimedia Commons.

Lufthansa apologizes for preventing number of Jewish passengers from flying

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Germany’s leading airline Lufthansa apologized on Tuesday for keeping more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals from flying with the airline last week from Germany to Hungary. The passengers, many of whom were traveling individually and had been...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán celebrating his election victory. April 3, 2022. Source: Fidesz/Facebook.

Orbán’s election victory highlights shift among Hungarian Jews

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In an unusual Hungarian election, whereby ideologically disparate opposition parties united to attempt to prevent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from serving his fourth consecutive term (and fifth total), the Hungarian people gave him the...
Ukrainian refugees and their hosts celebrate Purim with a reading of the Megillah and the shaking of a grogger in the national colors of Ukraine at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, March 17, 2022. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungarian Jews mark Purim with Ukrainian refugees, stressing peace

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Hundreds, most of them refugees from Ukraine, attended the Purim ceremony at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, where they heard the reading of the Megillah. Prior to the program, the EMIH-Hungarian...
Holocaust survivor Molnár Andorné Klára. Credit: Courtesy.

Budapest: 77 years of ghetto liberation marked with 77 live survivor testimonies

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A website dedicated to the recollections of Holocaust survivors and their rescuers was inaugurated this week by the Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities (EMIH), marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest...
Lili Erdos (far right) and her family at the Cholent Festival in Budapest, Hungary, on Aug. 27, 2021. Photo By Eliana Rudee.

‘Cholent Festival’ brings Jewish culture to Hungary via food, music, traditions

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Thousands of people took part in the Sixth Hungarian ‘Cholent Festival’ (“Sólet” in Hungarian) at the Újbuda outdoor theater in Budapest before the start of the High Holidays, organized by the Chabad Lubavitch organization...