Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution ...

In 1939, the synagogue was bombed by a Hungarian pro-Nazi party, and between 1944 and 1945, Dohány Street itself constituted the border of Budapest's Jewish ghetto. Visit the adjacent Hungarian ...

It also operates multiple synagogues in and around Budapest. But while Chabad has increased the number of Jews engaging with Jewish institutions and practices in some of the places where it ...

Tamas Irsai was a teenager when he last sang in the choir in Budapest's Rumbach synagogue during World War Two. Budapest's Great Synagogue: 'In Europe,' I could always tell where the synagogues ...

BUDAPEST — In front of hundreds of onlookers and Hungarian President Janos Ader, a ceremony on Thursday evening marked the revival of an ancient synagogue that has lain dormant for hundreds of ...

BUDAPEST — Jewish communities in Hungary opened two new synagogues as part of the annual Jewish Cultural Festival in this capital city. One is situated in the bustling center of Budapest, while the ...

A mother of two in her mid-30s, Ban is married to Tamas Vero, the 38-year-old spiritual leader of Budapest’s Frankel Leo Street Synagogue, a neo-Gothic building hidden in a courtyard near the ...

Thousands filled Budapest’s Great Synagogue and the street in front of it in an interfaith rally in support of Israel. Sunday’s rally was organized by the Hungarian Jewish federation Mazsihisz ...

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Jewish communities in Hungary opened two new synagogues as part of the annual Jewish Cultural Festival in this capital city. One is situated in the bustling center of Budapest, while the other is ...