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


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

Deri: Hungarian minister promised to find Jewish remains from Holocaust

Deri promised that the remains will be given a Jewish burial.

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

Ex-Trump strategist Bannon says to work with Hungary PM Orban

Bannon has set up a movement to elect right-wing nationalist and populist members in European elections.

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends the National Front party convention in Lille, France, March 10, 2018

Hungarian minister downplays local antisemitism

Antisemitism is everywhere, he told a meeting of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) on Tuesday, but it is less prevalent than in other parts of Europe.

HUNGARIAN JUSTICE MINISTER Laszlo Trocsanyi criticizes the EU’s ‘weakness and lack of pride in Christian-Jewish Europe.’

First sound of Jewish wedding bells since the Holocaust in Hungary

Viktoria Bedö and Jonah Chaim Fisher we’re married at the Mad synagogue in Hungary. Making it the first Jewish wedding ceremony to be held in the synagogue since the Holocaust.

Jewish visitors pray in the synagogue in the village of Mad, Hungary, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016.

Yad Vashem: Hungarian Holocaust museum is a ‘falsification of history'

Hungarian government recently announced the transfer of the museum to the Chabad Jewish federation in Hungary, although the liberal Jewish community opposes participation in the project.

Rabbi Slomó Köves, Mária Schmidt, and Gergely Gulyás at yesterday’s press conference in front of the House of Fates

Hungarian Chabad affiliate gains ownership of Budapest Holocaust Museum

The Hungarian government has invested some 22 million Euros in the museum, the construction of which was finished some three years ago.

Hungarian Prime Minister visits Yad Vashem, July 19, 2018