Tony Curtis On A Mission
Tim Boxer Special to the Jewish Week Tony Curtis, one of the last of the great Hollywood stars, was also one of those legendary celebrities who rediscovered Jewish roots and decided to give back.Born...
View ArticlePoems, by Hannah Senesh
This week I wrote a review of the Hannah Senesh exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. A wealthy Jewish girl from Hungary, Senesh immigrated to Palestine in 1939, when she was 17. After a few...
View Article‘Confidence’ Man
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo and the nature of trust.More than many filmmakers, Istvan Szabo understands issues of fear and trust viscerally. He and his...
View ArticleChaos and Classicism, The Music!: A Night with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest...
A classical music program that includes works by Haydn may not strike you as radical. After all Haydn--friend of Mozart, teacher of Beethoven--virtually invented the classical symphony as we know it....
View ArticleWhen The Danube Really Did ‘Run Red’
Susan J. Gordon Special To The Jewish Week When the Hotel Astoria in Budapest opened in 1914, it imparted an aura of old-world style and tradition. Even today, the hotel evokes elegance and decorum,...
View ArticleHungarians Protest Against Anti-Semitism
JTA About 120 Hungarians donned paper yellow stars with the word “Jude” (“Jew” in German) written on them and lined up on the bank of the Danube in downtown Budapest to protest recent anti-Semitic and...
View ArticleEight Days Of Chanukah Videos: Day 2
Naomi Less and Glenn Grossman: 8 Nights Our first annual list of eight best Chanukah videos continues on Day 2 with this 2011 offering from Naomi Less and Glenn Grossman of Brookyn about seeing...
View ArticleCultivating Jewish Leaders, In Hungary
How do you create young Jewish global leaders? Video blogger Aaron Herman spoke with alumni and staff of Camp Szarvas about how they are enhancing our global Jewish community. The Szarvas Fellowships...
View ArticleHow 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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