Jewish Telegraphic Agency1y
In Budapest, a ‘guerrilla-like’ group is mobilizing against the alleged takeover of a historic synagogue
It also operates multiple synagogues in and around Budapest. But while Chabad has increased the number of Jews engaging with Jewish institutions and practices in some of the places where it ...
The Forward on MSN19h
In the Oscar race: Bob Dylan and Laszlo Toth face the limits of Jewish reinvention
As Bob Dylan and Laszlo Tóth, Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody depict different, but related trajectories for Jewish ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5y
2 new synagogues open in Budapest
(JTA) – Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis in Hungary opened two new synagogues in the Budapest area. The larger synagogue in Újlipótváros, a central area of the capital city, is housed in a riverside ...
U.S. News & World Report8d
Dohány Street Synagogue (Dohány utcai Zsinagóga)
In 1939, the synagogue was bombed by a Hungarian pro-Nazi party, and between 1944 and 1945, Dohány Street itself constituted the border of Budapest's Jewish ghetto. Visit the adjacent Hungarian ...
BBC1y
Ruins found of Munich synagogue destroyed by Hitler
"The synagogue was very beautiful, like those synagogues in Budapest & Berlin," said Rolf Penzias, now 100, who was at a Jewish vocational school at the time the synagogue was torn down.