Tag: Hungary
What is the real story behind Judaism in Hungary?
The history of Europe and the Jewish people is one that has seen some of humanity’s most remarkable triumphs and darkest periods. Despite the Jewish population nearly being wiped out in the Holocaust, the...
Team USA takes home most medals in European Maccabi Games
The 15th European Maccabi Games, which some have likened to the Jewish Olympics, concluded on Aug. 7 in Budapest, Hungary, with team USA taking home a total of 155 medals, more than any other country.
American...
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews brings first Hungarians to Israel
The first new immigrants (olim) from Hungary to move to Israel through the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews arrived on Wednesday.
Sandor and Erika Horvat, a young couple in their 30s from Budapest, moved...
Hungarian Jewish group that detects anti-Semitic activity to form security service
A Hungarian Jewish group that detects and fights anti-Semitism announced on Wednesday that it was creating a security service to monitor Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter.
“To prevent anti-Semitic atrocities, the Foundation for Action and Defense...
Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims
At the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and in coordination with forensic experts from the Israeli emergency organization ZAKA, an Israeli recovery team will dive to the bottom of Hungary’s Danube river to...
The historic nature of Miloš Zeman’s speech in Jerusalem
Shifts in perceptions among European Jews on where they feel safest is not due entirely to demographic change. It also has to do with Eastern European leaders like the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman, who,...
Welcoming Orbán doesn’t betray Israeli democracy
For those who like neat political theories with straight lines connecting the people they don’t like, the upcoming visit of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán to Israel provides some potent ammunition. Orbán was elected for a third...
Hungarian premier to visit Israel, but only deputy to visit PA
In a sign of burgeoning diplomatic ties, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for an official visit as a guest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Orbán is expected to visit...
European Jewish group congratulates Viktor Orban for his reelection
BRUSSELS —The European Jewish Association (EJA), a Brussels-based advocacy group federating Jewish communities across Europe, congratulated Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his victory in Sunday’s general election.
In a letter to Orban, EJA Chairman...
Former U.S. lawmaker, Holocaust survivor, Tom Lantos honored with Budapest statue
A statue honoring former U.S. lawmaker and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos was unveiled in Budapest, Hungary on Thursday.
The Hungarian-born Lantos, who served a Democrat from California in the House of Representatives from 1981 until...