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Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

More Orban or a party with a neo-Nazi record? Hungary’s Jews don’t like their choices in this week’s election.

Jewish voters say they are as repulsed by the populist right-wing government of Viktor Orban as by the far-right Jobbik party holding together the opposition.

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.

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.

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

Children examine a Torah scroll as it is being carried into the Vorosmarty Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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2 new synagogues open in Budapest

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Jerusalem rabbinical court orders Hungary to freeze funding temporarily for feuding Jewish groups

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Orthodox Jews in Hungary threaten to sue non-Orthodox group for alleged $33 million debt

The aftermath of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Chisinau, Moldova on Oct. 31, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Moldova)

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Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Moldova and Hungary

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In Hungary, the left and the far right have united to defeat Viktor Orban. He says Jewish groups are giving them a pass on anti-Semitism.

Rabbi Peter Finali speaks at a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary in 2016. (Peter Finali/YouTube)

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Hungary’s largest Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism is causing another Holocaust

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