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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

Unusual offerings in Budapest are part of an attempt to assemble hundreds of worshippers in person while adhering to emergency coronavirus measures.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2020 3:17 pm

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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

Dozens of Jews from the Hungarian capital drove around the city bearing upbeat signs.

May 13, 2020 10:22 am

George Soros

George Soros donates $1.1 million to Budapest for coronavirus preparation

Soros, once the target of a nasty government billboard campaign, earns thanks from the Hungarian capital’s mayor for a “generous and noble gesture.”

April 1, 2020 1:29 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

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 30, 2019 7:24 pm

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz 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

By Cnaan Liphshiz 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

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