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Chess grandmaster Judit Polgar speaking to reporters at the First Move Ceremony in Berlin on March 10, 2018 (Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for World Chess)

2,300 Jewish athletes gather in Budapest for European Maccabi Games

Chess grandmaster Judit Polgar lit the Olympic flame at the Hungarian capital

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 30, 2019 7:24 pm

In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites

Scholars say it’s about wanting to whitewash the murder of Jews by collaborators.

July 29, 2019 3:49 pm

Peter Hajdú running from Prague to Budapest for the Maccabi Europe Games on July 26, 2019. (Courtesy of EMG Hungary)

Jewish athletes competing in Hungary honor 1st Jewish Olympic champion

A new commemorative headstone will be unveiled at the grave in Hungary of Alfred Hajós, who won two Olympic swimming events in 1896 at the first modern Olympics.

July 29, 2019 1:50 pm

13th-century Budapest synagogue celebrates first bar mitzvah in 332 years

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 1, 2019 10:39 am

Budapest synagogue reopens after centuries of disuse

September 7, 2018 6:51 am

Budapest cultural center unlocks local Jewish history

December 25, 2017 12:40 pm

Printer who helped Raoul Wallenberg rescue Jews gets a plaque in Budapest

October 19, 2017 12:53 pm

Hungarian-born Italian writer, director Giorgio Pressburger dies at 80

October 8, 2017 7:35 am

Citing drug issues, Budapest mayor shutters Jewish center bar favored by opposition activists

June 28, 2017 2:54 pm

In Budapest, Roma and Jews use alternative JCC to fight right-wing populism

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 27, 2017 2:13 pm

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