Hungarian jews

Budapest Orthodox Jewish women host 'Kosher & Chic' fashion show to redefine modest style

The models at the fashion show, held in a modern synagogue that also serves as a cultural center, were not professionals but members of one of Budapest’s growing Orthodox communities.

A member of the Orthodox Jewish community presents a creation by Hungarian designer Hajnalka Forizs during the "Kosher & Chic" fashion show in Budapest, Hungary, November 8, 2026.
 Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Harassing Christians undermines both Israel and Jewish history - opinion

Election winner Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza Party looks on, on the day of a meeting with Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok after the parliamentary election, at Sandor Palace in Budapest, Hungary, April 15, 2026.

Hungarian Jewish community extend olive branch to Magyar, including Orban allies

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts onstage as people applaud after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026.

Viktor Orban will always be the man who kept Hungary’s Jews safe - opinion


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

Vilmos Siklósi , President of Zalaegerszeg's Jewish community shares his views on Israel

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US says Hungary is responsible for fate of statue honoring anti-Semite

Bálint Hóman, who led the charge to deport Hungarian Jews during WWII, will soon be memorialized in this town unless Budapest intervenes.

Bálint Hóman

Hungarian Jews protest statue of WWII politician who drafted anti-Semitic laws

Row over statue of Balint Homan, who served as minister of religion and education twice between 1932 and 1942, broke out as Hungary grapples with anti-Semitic past and role it played in Holocaust.

 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.

Hungarian couple uncovers last records of murdered Jews in apartment wall while renovating

More than 6,000 pages were found documenting the city's former Jewish residents.

Jewish women are rounded up by Nazis and Hungarian fascists, Wesselényi Street, Budapest, October 1944.

World Jewish Congress: Halt plans for statue of Hungarian fascist Bálint Homan

The Arrow Cross regime collaborated with the Nazis in the liquidation of Hungarian Jewry.

 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.

A soul in Sheol

A Hungarian Holocaust film relies on the imagination of viewers to reconstruct a collective tragedy that cannot be reconstructed visually.

‘Son of Saul’ director Lászlo Nemes (left) together with lead actor Géza Röhrig during a news conference in Budapest, May 28.