News And Events

Local Purims
Jewish communities in different cities also called...
2020-03-17 00:00:00
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Coronavirus related measu...
Dear Visitors,
2020-03-13 00:00:00
802

Known celebratory habits
In Purim it is customary to dress in masquerades a...
2020-03-12 00:00:00
624

Purim Laws
Although this day is not a holiday, at least in th...
2020-03-10 00:00:00
635

Purim Joy
Purim (from the Hebrew word pur, translated as 'lo...
2020-03-05 00:00:00
599

Zayin Adar
On the Jewish calendar, the seventh day of the mon...
2020-03-03 00:00:00
622

Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Chodesh is the name for the first day of ever...
2020-02-27 00:00:00
641

Spring opening hours
From 1st of March, the Dohány Synagogue Complex wi...
2020-02-25 00:00:00
586

Plans for this year
This year we want to increase the number of visito...
2020-02-20 00:00:00
652

A safer environment
"We have learned from the cases in London, Berlin...
2020-02-18 00:00:00
602

Further development agend...
Iván Róna, Tourism Director of Mazsihisz, said tha...
2020-02-13 00:00:00
747

Introducing tour guide au...
"Tour guide audio systems are being used around th...
2020-02-11 00:00:00
636

Not only annual but daily...
Iván Róna, Tourism Director of Mazsihisz said that...
2020-02-06 00:00:00
586

Almost 25% more visitors...
2019 was a record year in every aspect.
2020-02-04 00:00:00
615

Festive habits
Tu BiShvat has little traditions.
2020-01-30 00:00:00
693

Tu BiShvat, New Year of t...
There are several New Year's in Judaism.
2020-01-28 00:00:00
654

The ghetto
The decree of the Minister of the Interior definin...
2020-01-23 00:00:00
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The Budapest ghetto was l...
Seventy-five years ago, on January 18, 1945, the R...
2020-01-21 00:00:00
639

Changed opening time
Dear Guest,
2020-01-16 00:00:00
597

Tourist opening hours of...
Dear Visitor, Below we present you the tourist ope...
2020-01-14 00:00:00
713

Different opening hours
Dear Visitors,
2020-01-08 00:00:00
646

Opening hours in January
Our opening hours in January are the following:
2020-01-07 00:00:00
669

Happy New Year
On behalf of the leaders, staff of the Dohány Syna...
2020-01-02 00:00:00
708

High attendance at the en...
On the last day of Hanukkah, December 29, a record...
2019-12-31 00:00:00
621

Hanukkah party in front o...
Hundreds attended the joint Hanukkah event of Dohá...
2019-12-24 00:00:00
616

Opening hours during the...
Dohány Synagogue Complex have extraordinary openin...
2019-12-20 00:00:00
650

Lighting the candles
Thanks to the public Hanukkah celebrations, it is...
2019-12-19 00:00:00
652

Festive traditions
Hanukkah gelt (Yiddish for "Hanukkah money") known...
2019-12-17 00:00:00
805

Hanukkah: festival of lig...
Hanukkah, just like Purim, is not based on the Tor...
2019-12-12 00:00:00
683

Jewish calendar
For many, it may be a mystery why Jewish holidays...
2019-12-10 00:00:00
671

Lecha Dodi
Lecha Dodi is one of the best known and most recen...
2019-12-05 00:00:00
803

Kaddish
Kaddish (The Mourner's Kaddish) is an ancient Jewi...
2019-12-03 00:00:00
707

Shema Yisrael
It is perhaps the best-known phrase of the Torah a...
2019-11-28 00:00:00
643

The Maftir
On Saturday, seven people were originally invited...
2019-11-26 00:00:00
700

The Beadle
Or as it is called in Jewish communities, shamash/...
2019-11-21 00:00:00
680

Who is the cantor, what i...
Unlike other religions, Jewish worship is not led...
2019-11-19 00:00:00
702

Who is the rabbi?
In Judaism, rabbi means "religious teacher”, or li...
2019-11-14 00:00:00
707

Minyan
It means headcount.
2019-11-12 00:00:00
743

Menorah
The menorah – one of the oldest symbols of Judaism...
2019-11-07 00:00:00
744

Star of David
Perhaps the most well-known Jewish symbol, which i...
2019-11-05 00:00:00
732

Bar mitzvah and bat mitzv...
It means "son / daughter of the commandment".
2019-10-31 00:00:00
685

FIFA World Cup-winning fo...
On the first day of Rosh Hashana (Monday afternoon...
2019-10-29 00:00:00
711

Shmini Atzeret and Simcha...
The eighth day of Sukkot, though related to the Fe...
2019-10-22 00:00:00
685

Sukkot related habits
Decorating the shelter is great fun for the kids.
2019-10-17 00:00:00
671

Sukkot
Sukkot is the last of the three pilgrimage festiva...
2019-10-15 22:48:10
862

Yom Kippur
The tenth day of Tishrei, the holiest Jewish holid...
2019-10-08 20:43:20
403

Habits for New Year
To make the year the way we want it, we also consu...
2019-10-03 23:14:39
416

Rosh Hashana - 2019
The Hebrew name of the new year means: the end of...
2019-10-01 09:39:16
406

The Torah ark
There is an ornate dome at the top of the 8.2-mete...
2019-09-03 00:00:00
698

The beautiful chandeliers...
The two cast iron chandeliers on the main ship can...
2019-08-29 00:00:00
739

Re-opening after the Seco...
The museum re-opened in 1947.
2019-08-27 00:00:00
718

From Hold Street to Dohán...
The first home of the collection of some 1,500 ite...
2019-08-22 00:00:00
662

Millennium: The birth of...
The idea of an independent exhibition of predomi...
2019-08-20 00:00:00
750

Engel Polda became the ow...
Johanna Bischitz's chair was bought in 1935 by Sam...
2019-08-15 00:00:00
761

Seating in the second ben...
They have read here that when the synagogue was bu...
2019-08-13 00:00:00
742

Jahrzeit Wall
For several years now (since May 2011), visitor ca...
2019-08-08 00:00:00
784

Sir Winton's memorial pla...
On the first day of September 2015, the memorial p...
2019-08-06 00:00:00
739

Memorial plaque in the Wa...
On Holocaust Memorial Day, April 16, 2017, a memor...
2019-08-01 00:00:00
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Stone repository behind t...
Following the renovation of the cemetery garden, a...
2019-07-30 00:00:00
771

Cemetery garden in the co...
The cemetery for the victims of the Budapest ghett...
2019-07-25 00:00:00
713

Goldmark Hall, the old-ne...
The Goldmark Hall at 7 Wesselényi Street, Pest Jew...
2019-07-23 00:00:00
741

Heroes Synagogue
The surroundings of the Dohány Street Synagogue we...
2019-07-18 00:00:00
735

Dohány chair for charity
People bought prayer chairs not only for themselve...
2019-07-16 00:00:00
717

Prayer chair for sale
The construction of the Dohány Street Synagogue wa...
2019-07-11 00:00:00
723

The story of the organ
Already at the inauguration (1859), there was an o...
2019-07-09 00:00:00
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Several important dates
The Pest community started to rent the Dohány Stre...
2019-07-04 00:00:00
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