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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, 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.

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 ...