Synagogues Closed for Two Weeks in Budapest

The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) and the Budapest Jewish Community (BZSH) have closed down the synagogues in Budapest for two weeks and impose a ban on visiting Mazsihisz's Budapest hospital and BZSH nursing home.

The Mazsihisz website writes that the leadership of Mazsihisz learned on Sunday that a relative of one of the participants of the daycare camp held at the Bálint House in Budapest was infected with a coronavirus. Therefore, the leadership of Mazsihisz and BZSH, in consultation with the crisis management, decided to suspend visits to the synagogues in Budapest until August 10 and recommend that the prayers and planned events be held online.

Those who have come into contact with the Chábad Lubavichi community (synagogue, office, kindergarten, school) in the last two weeks, either personally or through a family member, are asked not to visit the Mazsihisz and BZSH institutions until the end of the fourteen-day incubation period.