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Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

Which European countries are best for Jews? A new study offers unexpected answers.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

Antisemitic sentiment is especially prevalent in Italy and Hungary, according to multiple surveys. But a first-of-its-kind index combining different measures of Jewish experience found that they are also the best […]

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a victory speech in Budapest, April 3, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Attila Kisbenedek-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Hungary’s Orban wins 4th term, declaring victory over enemies including Soros and Zelensky

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 4, 2022
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

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

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 1, 2022April 1, 2022
Woman
Posted inSeniors

East Bay artist celebrates her ‘Charmed Life’

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz December 29, 2020December 29, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, seen delivering remarks in 2017, asked why descendants of German Jews should be forced to seek remedies in Germany in the first place. (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The Supreme Court seems skeptical.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Peppers, Eggplant and Onions in Tomato Sauce over Polenta. (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inJewish Life

My Hungarian-Italian bubbe’s sauce is perfect on polenta

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer November 4, 2020
A Black Lives Matter sign outside the White House during a protest in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, June 7, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Aurora Samperio-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

J. is fake news; Kushner is no celebrity; BLM is bad for the Jews; etc.

by J. Readers July 28, 2020
Satya Zamudio, 15, is urging Oakland's school board to eliminate its police force. (Photo/Rucha Chitnis)
Posted inOpinion

Inequality in the burbs; Our pandemic reporting; JCCs need new funding model; Jews are safe in Hungary; etc.

by J. Readers July 10, 2020July 10, 2020
Peter Eckstein-Kovacs served in Romania's government for nearly two decades. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Eckstein-Kovacs)
Posted inWorld, News

Peter Eckstein-Kovacs has defended Jews and other Romanian minorities for decades. Will he survive the Orban era?

by Charles Dunst and JTA May 26, 2020May 28, 2020
An ad for the Maccabi Games in the Budapest metro (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inLetters

Budapest Jews are doing just fine; Trump’s Title VI EO, for and against

by J. Readers December 20, 2019

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