Slomo Koves

Hungarian rabbis join critics of Orban speech his own advisor decried as ‘pure Nazi’

The right-wing leader, who has trafficked in far-right rhetoric before, is facing a fresh torrent of condemnations.

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 28, 2022 9:31 am

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Rabbi Gabor Finali leans against the play corner at his apartment-sized synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 29, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

This maverick rabbi was a rising star in Hungary — until he criticized Israel and his religious rivals on Facebook

Gabor Finali became the first rabbi kicked out of the religious council of the country’s largest Jewish umbrella group.

January 24, 2022 6:00 am

Hungary’s largest Jewish group apologizes for signing statement ‘sanctifying’ heterosexual marriage

A second Jewish group stands squarely behind the document that both organization co-signed along with multiple churches.

December 23, 2021 11:49 am

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 16, 2021 2:45 pm

Hungarian Jews baking challah breads in front of the Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2020 3:17 pm

Drivers celebrating Lag B'Omer at a festive convoy through the Hungarian capital on May 12, 2020. (Andras D. Toth)

Banned from gathering because of coronavirus, Budapest Jews celebrate Lag b’Omer with convoy and blasting music

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 13, 2020 10:22 am

Rabbis examinign the production line at Quality Poultry KFT in Csengele, Hungary in February 2017. (Zsolt Demecs)

Europe’s only kosher slaughterhouse for geese switches to chicken due to virus

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 2, 2020 1:38 pm

Rabbi shlomo Koves, left, praying at his Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

1 in 5 Europeans thinks a secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2020 5:24 pm

Rabbi Asher Faith carrying a Torah scroll into the the Buda Castle Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary of Sept. 6, 2018. (Márton Merész)

Jewish communities returning to their origins in Budapest’s quiet western district

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 26, 2019 3:07 pm

Chabad of Hungary gets status upgrade from government

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 18, 2019 8:53 am

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