How Bad Is Anti-Semitism In Hungary?
Jerome A. Chanes Special To The Jewish Week My mother’s favorite story: Two Jews in post-Anschluss Vienna are walking through an anti-Semitic neighborhood. They see that they are being followed by two...
View ArticleHungary Launches PR Blitz To Combat Extremist Image
Ron Kampeas JTA Heavyweight N.Y. firm behind effort to reach out to Jewish community. Washington — Armed with a powerful New York public relations outfit and a pledge to commemorate the mass...
View ArticleNew York Times Polls Hungarians On Anti-Semitism
JTA The New York Times is conducting a survey of Hungarian Jews to help deepen its coverage of anti-Semitism in that country. The survey, published online Tuesday, asks respondents whether they...
View ArticleYizkor For The Hungarian Shoah
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor This is the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust coming to Hungary.Editor's Note: Click here for a news update on the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Shoah. In the...
View ArticleHungarian Jews Today
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Bigotry, Holocaust distortion confront a community balancing fear and hope. Seventy years after the decimation of Hungarian Jewry in 1944, the surviving community is...
View ArticleFrom A 2012 ADL Survey Of Europe
Quote Source: Hungarian Jews Today “Levels of anti-Semitism have increased most dramatically in Hungary.”
View ArticleIn Hungary, Nationalist Rhetoric On The Rise
Cnaan Liphshiz JTA As Jobbik popularity grows, ruling party sounding ominous notes. Budapest, Hungary — A lone heckler tried to disrupt him, but Hungarian lawmaker Janos Hargitai was undeterred as he...
View ArticleHungarian Official Reassures Jews on Bris And Kashout
JTA A Hungarian official said his government is committed to safeguarding religious freedoms, including circumcision and kosher slaughter. Ferenc Kumin, a government spokesman, delivered the...
View ArticleSurvivors Can’t Get Justice In Hungary: Lawyers
Stewart Ain Staff Writer In Chicago court, growing anti-Semitism cited in restitution cases. In April, Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party — described by the president of the European Jewish Congress as...
View ArticleHungary, Bulgaria Studying Israel’s Border Fence With Egypt To Keep Out Refugees
JTA Hungary and Bulgaria are looking into Israeli-designed fences to keep refugees from crossing their borders, Reuters reported.read more
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