Hungary
A key player in the Abraham Accords is awarded the Order of Merit of Hungary for his peace efforts and advancing American-Hungarian relations.
Rabbi Shmuel Faigen was installed as head of the Jewish community in the Hungarian city, as well as rabbi of the EMIH-Hungarian Jewish Association and Chabad-Lubavich movement.
“Under Horthy’s reign Hungary joined World War II siding with Hitler, some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered and 100,00 Hungarian soldiers died at the Don River. Not a man to honor,” said the American Jewish Committee of Central Europe.
The airline will also adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident in May that went viral.
“A crisis of this magnitude has not been seen in Eastern Europe since World War II,” said Rabbi Shlomó Köves, chief rabbi of EMIH-The Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities.
It comes after video surfaced of an employee telling a Jewish passenger that those who were banned are “Jewish from JFK” and that it was the “Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
“This is 2022 and this is a Western country, and there’s a lot of anti-Semitism throughout the world,” wrote Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive vice president of the Agudath Israel of America.
Israel takes home four medals in mathematics competition
A total of 222 contestants from 56 countries participated in this contest, where high-schoolers are tested on algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory.
The Jewish community of 100,000 or so has been divided on the prime minister largely across religious-political lines, even though they agree that anti-Semitism has not really been an issue.
“With the noise of the grogger, we suppress the voice of war,” said Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves.
The videos are part of a series of interviews with survivors conducted by Hungarian director András Surányi, and commissioned by the Hungarian Holocaust Research and Education Center.
“Unfortunately, we are still fighting COVID-19, but we will not be deterred and will celebrate—with the utmost caution—together again this year,” said Rabbi Shlomó Köves.
