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 ...

(JNS) 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 ...

Budapest synagogue hosts 4,500-strong interfaith rally Counterdemonstration held nearby organized by far-right Hungarian political party Jobbik By JTA 29 July 2014, 2:59 pm Edit ...

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 ...

The synagogue on Táncsics Street, which used to be a Jewish museum, was opened especially in time for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new years. Budapest, whose name is a mashup of the two parts of 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 ...

BUDAPEST (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to a Budapest synagogue praised his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, for speaking out against anti-Semitism and standing ...

BUDAPEST, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Tamas Irsai was a teenager when he last sang in the choir in Budapest's Rumbach synagogue during World War Two, before most Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.