ROSH HASANA 5786
2025-09-22
PROTOCOLS
2025-09-20
The minutes of Barisszia Hakatan have been uploaded to our website.
Accessibility: in the Community Life/Protcols column, click on the search engine and enter: Barisszia Hakatan.
I wish you happy browsing,
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JEWISH-ARMENIAN GASTRO-CULTURAL MIX II
2025-08-29
In 2024, at the invitation of the organizers of the “Forgatag” event in Târgu Mureș, we held for the first time the event titled “Jewish-Armenian Gastronomic and Cultural Fusion,” the first of its kind in the cultural life of the city. Why with the Armenians? Because details...
Audio guide
2025-08-15
Finally, it exists and we are using it! What? The audio guide, available in four languages (Hungarian, Romanian, Hebrew, English). Using the numbers, you can walk around the museum (the longer version) or just listen to some of the exhibits. Engineer and university professor László Lefkovits details...
MINDTHEGAP TRIO concert
2025-07-24
The synagogue has reopened its doors, this time for a jazz concert. Three young men (Ștefan Ormenișan, Iszlai Tamás, Alex. Cioată), who make up the MINDTHEGAP TRIO, held a special acoustic evening filled with light shows in the synagogue, which was packed (mainly with young people).
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Röhrig Géza
2025-07-19
It was an extraordinary Saturday prayer, because from the weekly section "Pinchász" "Röhrig Géza, actor, writer, and poet laureate of the Kossuth Prize (his latest book – "semmike-dalok," Jelenkor Publishing House, 2025 was presented in Târgu details...
Keshet - Rainbow 5785
2025-05-25
Just like last year, this year too, on the initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, a roundtable discussion was held in Târgu Mureș (as well as in other communities across the country) as part of the "KESHET = RAINBOW" initiative, we held a roundtable discussion details...
Lag Baomer
2025-05-18
Over the past two millennia, many traditions have developed around Lag BaOmer (in English: the thirty-third day of the Omer), but one thing is certain: the 33rd day of the Omer count, which lasts from Passover to Shavuot, is a day of multiple celebrations.
In ancient Israel, the barley
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Night of Museums
2025-05-17
This year our Jewish museum joined the national "Night of Museums" event. Without comment, the more than 1000 visitors is a telling number !
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Documentary film presentation
2025-05-16
May 16, 2025
As every year in the month of May, we commemorate our family members who perished in the Holocaust. We lit candles and read the names of the parents and relatives of those still alive. But this year, there was more, as we moved from the synagogue to the former Jewish Cultural Centre
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Archiving
2025-04-22
Archiving
We have completed the cataloging and digitization of the communitie`s archives. It was about six months of work, thanks to the Mr. Attlia Gidó, a respected historian from Cluj-Napoca, researcher at the Romanian National Institute for the Study of National Minorities in
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Passover 5785
2025-04-12
Passover 5785
The "Festival of Passing Over" (Hag HaPesach) takes place this year between April 12–20. The holiday commemorates how Jewish slaves were spared from the final biblical plague—the death of the firstborn—by marking their homes with lamb's blood, causing
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Purim 5785
2025-03-14
Purim 5785
A relatively small but enthusiastic group of community members celebrated this year's Festival of Lots, the Purim holiday. The organizers, László Dub (community president) and Judith Heimann, did everything to ensure we could celebrate a different kind of Purim again. details...
Judith Kesztenbaum 100th birthday
2025-02-21
We celebrated the oldest member of our congregation, Aunt Judith Kesztenbaum, on her 100th birthday in a pleasant, warm, and cheerful atmosphere, with her son András and his wife also present from Israel. Aunt Judith was greeted by László Dub, the president of our congregation, details...
Rubin Oszkár passed away
2025-02-19
We were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Oszkár Rubin, a fundamental member of our community. He was an extraordinary, true HUMAN BEING!!!!
His funeral will be held on February 20, 2025.
May he rest in peace
The attached photograph was taken on January 27, 2024.
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details...International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2025-01-28
This year, on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a group from our community combined the commemoration with a film screening. In the film "Ambassador of Remembrance" (directed by Magdalena Zelasko), Stanislaw Zalewski, a member of a Polish resistance details...
Donation call Tg-Mureș
2024-12-19
ANNOUNCEMENT
To the esteemed members or sympathizers of the Jewish Community of Târgu Mureș who have relocated from Mureș and Harghita counties,
As most of you know, one of the main concerns of the Jewish Community of Târgu Mureș (CE TgM) is the restoration of the Great
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On the evening of November 6, 2024, Mr. Silviu Vexler, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, was the guest of the Jewish Community in Târgu Mureș. The discussions focused on the upcoming parliamentary elections, the situation of communities across the country, and details...
At the initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, a roundtable discussion on traditional Jewish texts took place in Târgu Mureș (as well as in other communities across the country) as part of the "KESHET = RAINBOW" event, because "as a people, we express our details...
An extraordinary concert
2024-10-11
The Tiberius Quartet held an extraordinary concert in the synagogue in memory of Péter Kozma, a cellist who passed away at a young age. The music was a true attunement to the approaching Yom Kippur. I should note: the concert ended before the start of the holiday!
To all website readers:
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On October 9th, the Romanian Day of Commemoration for Jewish Victims, candles were lit at the Holocaust memorial in Târgu Mureș in memory of the 6 million European Jews, including the Romanian victims. At the event, prayers were recited in Hebrew and Romanian. History teacher Prozan details...
Rosh Hasana 5785
2024-10-03
Shana Tova u Metukah for all website visitors
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The photos were taken by Miklós Grünstein
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Jewish-Armenian Gastro-Cultural Mix
2024-09-01
Jewish-Armenian Gastro-Cultural Mix
September 1, 2024
In Târgu Mureș - Jewish-Armenian Gastro-Cultural MixAt the invitation of the organizers of the "Târgu Mureș Whirl," our community organized a "Jewish-Armenian Gastro-Cultural Mix"
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Kaddish Andreas Pollak
2024-08-02
The "Kaddish Andreas Pollak" collection brought from Germany consists of 40 small bronze sculptures, graphic works, and textile pieces, created by: Vandanyan Armen, Marek Josef, Gyarmathy János, Rétfalvi Sándor, Denzen Barsboldt, Salman Mark, Solti Gizella, Széchenyi details...
In the Spirit of Respect and Gratitude
Sebestyén-Spielmann Mihály Becomes Honorary Citizen of Târgu Mureș
As per tradition, during the Târgu Mureș Days, honorary citizenship titles were ceremoniously presented details...
The conference was moderated by Attila Gidó. The first lecture was given by Enikő Orsolya Nagyi, who spoke about the economic plundering of the Jews of Northern Transylvania between 1940 and 1944. In her presentation, she mentioned several large entrepreneurs and industrialists of Jewish origin details...
Synagogi Album release
2024-05-16
On May 16th of this year, a team from the Museum of Architecture in Budapest requested permission to present an album titled "Raise Me a Roof," featuring synagogues from the Carpathian arc, which included the synagogue from Târgu Mureș, with text in Hungarian and English.The co-author, details...
The "Association for the Preservation of the Affaltrach Synagogue" was founded on May 3, 1985, which set itself as its most important task to save the dilapidated building of the former synagogue from final degradation, the main objective achieved on September 12, 1988 by establishing the details...
The Acceptance of the Pollák Donation
2023-10-22
The Acceptance of the Pollák Donation (16-19 October 2023)
On 1 September 2023, following the photo-documented information sent by Monica Pollak and engineer Ferenc Incze from Germany, László Dub, president of the Jewish community in Târgu Mureș, presented a proposal details...
Sukot 5781
2020-10-04
New Year
2020-09-19
Rosh Hashanah 5781
2020-09-18
Rosh Hashanah 5781
2020-09-18
In the memory of David Bishop
2019-10-15
Holocaust 2019
2019-10-11
Ros Hasanah
2019-09-29
Pro Urbe award
2019-08-23
Nights of Museums
2019-05-18
Pesah 2019
2019-04-19
Day of the world cultural heritage
2019-04-12
With the occasion of the second edition of the World Monuments Day, and thanks to the initiative of the museologist Orbán János, the events of this year were focused around the Jewish architecture of Tärgu Mures , from the end of the 19th century and the first half details...
Purim 2019
2019-03-21
Radnóti poetry
2019-02-19
The Jewish Community of Targu Mures took part in the celebration of 110 years since thebirth of the poet Radnóti Miklós (1909-1944). Mr. Radnóti died during the Holocaust in a
labor camp. During the event organized by the Harghita county library (named Kájoni János)
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Death
2019-01-19
Hanukkah 2018
2018-12-08
In 2018 (5779 by the Jewish calendar) , during the holidays of Hanukkah , our community received very special guests from the Romanian Jewish Community , namely Mr. Eduard Kupferber , secretary general , the chief rabbi Rafael Shaffer, and the cantor , Mr. Pusztai Emanuel. They were joined details...
Rosh Hasanah
2018-09-09
