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Progressive Jews raise alarm over new US ambassador to Hungary’s links to Israeli far-right

Ben Landa is awaiting Senate confirmation but some Jewish groups are concerned that he may not provide space for disagreement over Israel

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The US embassy in Budapest (Getty Images)

Kneecap has been banned from entering Hungary for the next three years (Image: Getty)

Hungary bans Kneecap for three years over alleged ‘antisemitic hate speech’

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Stein (left, courtesy of family) and Gur (Image of Gur: US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

The Jews who dressed as Nazis to hunt them down

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The oldest female olympic winner, Hungarian born Agnes Keleti, 95, makes a split in front of Hungarian young gymnasts in a local training center of Budapest on January 16, 2016. (Getty)

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor and Olympic champion dies at 103

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Agnes Keleti poses with her Olympic gold medals (Getty Images)

Jewish Olympic legend Ágnes Keleti dies at 103

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Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

By Gloria Tessler

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Chabad's mitzvah tank is launched in Budapest

Division on the Danube: how the battle over Hungary’s Jewish past rages on

By Jane Prinsley

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The New York chef whose Hungarian-Jewish cookbook reinvents his grandmothers’ melting pot meals

Restaurateur Jeremy Salamon’s new book shares the kitchen magic of his beloved grandmothers

By Victoria Prever

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October 1, 2024 14:32

Breaking bread: Salamon (right) with Grandma Arlene (centre) and mother Robyn Photo: Ed Anderson

Inside the battle for control of Hungary’s Orthodox Jewish establishment

A long running dispute to set to come to court next month

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August 29, 2024 11:02

Inside the battle for control of Hungary’s Orthodox Jewish establishment

Alex Soros urges Biden to 'take action' to 'protect Israeli democracy' amid judicial reforms

Soros, who is from a Hungarian Jewish family, spoke out in a letter to the US president

By Richard Percival

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August 8, 2023 13:42

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 21: Founder of the Alexander Soros Foundation Alexander Soros speaks onstage during the Ford Foundation-United Nations Development Programme Forests for Climate event at the Ford Foundation on April 21, 2016 in New York City. Without tropical forests, humanity will lose indispensable years to reduce fossil fuel use. Where indigenous peoples and local communities have secure land rights to their forests, there is less deforestation and better forest protection. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Ford Foundation)

Why have Hungarian Jews been locked out of their synagogue?

Two Orthodox Jewish communities have clashed over ownership of a Budapest shul

By Hannah Gillott

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August 4, 2023 19:30

Why have Hungarian Jews been locked out of their synagogue?

How Dov Forman reunited Lily Ebert with her brother's lost book

The great-grandson of the Holocaust survivor travelled to Hungary to rescue an 80 year old book of Exodus

By Daniel Ben-David

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July 21, 2023 11:29

How Dov Forman reunited Lily Ebert with her brother's lost book

Meet the Jewish maestro on a mission to rip up the Proms rulebook

Jewish-Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer to tell audience to choose the programme for concert

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July 13, 2023 09:40

Meet the Jewish maestro on a mission to rip up the Proms rulebook

George Soros passes control of multi-billion dollar foundation to son Alexander

Soros, who is from a Hungarian Jewish family, said his son 'deserved it'

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June 12, 2023 15:04

Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros answers to questions after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Tens of thousands of Chasidic Jews flood tiny Hungarian town for ‘miracle rabbi’ pilgrimage

50,000 Jews travelled to Bodrogkeresztur, a town with only 1000 residents

By Gabe Friedman

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April 26, 2023 10:04

Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray to late miracle rabbi Yeshaya Steiner, also known as Rebbe Shaya'le, close to Steiner's tomb at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, on April 24, 2023, during a pilgrimage on the occasion of Rabbi Steiner's 98th death anniversary. - Arriving by shuttle bus, private plane, and even helicopter, tens of thousands of orthodox Jews on a fast-growing annual pilgrimage to the grave of the miracle-working rabbi bring tumult to the sleepy Hungarian village. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP) (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Isabel Sawkins

By Isabel Sawkins

Ignore the grim stats about Eastern European Jews

In the context of the communist legacy, relatively low observance rates are really good news

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March 30, 2023 09:45

Ukrainian Jewish refugees who fled the war celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim at Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Chisinau on March 16, 2022. - The Jewish refugees wait to be flown to Israel in the coming days. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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