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• Far-right Jobbik gains in Hungarian elections

  April 26, 2010 4:16pm

  Hungary’s openly anti-Semitic nationalist Jobbik Party secured 47 seats in the 386-seat legislature in the second round of parliamentary elections.

• Hungarians demonstrate against anti-Semitism

  April 19, 2010 4:15pm

  Tens of thousands of Hungarians, mostly Jews, marched against anti-Semitism in a torchlight procession on the banks of the Danube River.

• Rightward swing in Hungarian elections

  April 12, 2010 11:10am

  A far right party, Jobbik, won 26 seats in Hungarian parliamentary elections Sunday, to the dismany of Hungarian and European Jewish leaders.

• Hungarian Jews urged to vote against extremists

  April 11, 2010 12:14pm

  On the eve of parliamentary elections in Hungary, the largest Hungarian Jewish umbrella organization called upon Jews to vote against anti-Semitic candidates.

• Hungary’s Jews march after anti-Semitic incidents

  April 7, 2010 11:35am

  More than 1,000 Jews marched through Budapest’s Old Ghetto district on Tuesday in response to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the lead-up to Hungary’s elections.

• Hungary salutes four Jews

  March 17, 2010 6:04pm

  Four well-known Jews received Hungarian state awards.

• Tamás Raj, Hungary’s former chief rabbi, dies

  March 10, 2010 7:13pm

  Tamas Raj, a charismatic retired chief rabbi and one of Hungary’s top intellectuals, has died.

• Hungarian president signs Holocaust denial law

  March 10, 2010 6:59pm

  Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom signed into law legislative reforms making Holocaust denial a criminal offense.

• Court OKs neo-Nazi march in Hungary

  February 16, 2010 7:27pm

  A Hungarian court ruled that an international neo-Nazi march can take place in Budapest.

• Hungarian groups protest rise of neo-Nazism

  February 14, 2010 6:02pm

  Pro-democracy and anti-fascist organizations in Hungary held a joint demonstration to protest the rise of neo-Nazi agitation in Eastern Europe.