There are 70,000 Jews living now in Hungary, most of them in Budapest, and all the Jews in the country “enjoy complete religious freedom,” Rabbi Jeno Schuck, chief Orthodox rabbi of Hungary, declared here this weekend.
Rabbi Schuck came here to act as a visiting lecturer on Jewish religious law and the history of Hungarian Jewry, at the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He had been invited by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva.
In reply to questions about the situation of the Jews in his country, Rabbi Schuck said no restrictions are imposed upon Hungarian Jews by their Government. He said the Government allows the Jews to build synagogues, expand existing yeshivas, conduct ritual slaughter and, in general, to follow faithfully all precepts of the Jewish religion. He added that Hungary permits Jews to emigrate to Israel under a policy favoring reunification of families.
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