Viktor Orban

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.

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 Jacob Werchow presents geese slaughtered by his team on Csengele, Hungary on Sept. 29, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Hungary is Europe’s unlikely leader in kosher foie gras production. That gives Viktor Orban an advantage.

Orban’s government is welcoming the kosher slaughter business, which it says Brussels is shutting down out of disrespect for human rights.

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

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Hungarian Jews protest ‘gay propaganda law’

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, left, speaks during a press conferencw tih Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Jerusalem, Israel on March 11, 2021. (GPO)

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Czech prime minister opens Jerusalem embassy office on COVID-related Israel trip with Hungarian counterpart

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ADL singles out Poland, Hungary, Russia and British Labour Party in Europe anti-Semitism report

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Hungarian official retracts op-ed calling George Soros ‘liberal Fuhrer’

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Chabad of Hungary gets status upgrade from government

Hungarian supporters of the far-right Jobbik party participating in a nationalist march through Warsaw, Poland on Nov. 11, 2015. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images)

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In Hungary, some left-wing Jews are ready to work with a far-right party led by a former neo-Nazi

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