School Hijacked, Heritage Erased: Chabad Turns Historic Hungarian Orthodox Complex into Zionist Stage

From Torah Isolation to State Anthems: How Chabad Uprooted Hungarian Orthodox Education and Turned Its School into a Zionist Propaganda Stage

BUDAPEST — In yet another shameless display of cultural and ideological destruction, the Chabad-controlled operatives who usurped the Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Community of Hungary (MAOIH) gathered at the historic Wesselényi Street educational complex to celebrate the opening of the school year—this time brazenly parading Israeli state officials and nationalistic anthems within the walls of a community historically established to protect traditional Jewry.

The event featured Maya Kadosh, the Israeli ambassador to Hungary, who was given a platform by the takeover figures, including MAOIH’s self-appointed president Gábor Keszler. This public display follows Kadosh’s previous visits to the stolen Kazinczy Street Synagogue, where Chabad operatives hosted Israeli officials to cement their political pact. To add insult to injury, the ceremony opened with the playing of the Israeli national anthem alongside state anthems—a bizarre show Chabad boasts of publicly without a shred of shame.

The Charade at Wesselényi Street: Takeover figure Gábor Keszler and Israeli Ambassador Maya Kadosh alongside non-Jewish staff at the stolen Orthodox school complex—where traditional Jewish students were displaced to make room for political theater.

While MAOIH was originally established in the 19th century to safeguard traditional Jewry from secularization, its historic rabbinical leaders later fought relentlessly against religious and political Zionism. Today, its physical shell is used to promote the very ideologies its founders opposed.

This ideological circus is the direct outcome of Chabad’s systematic campaign to dismantle authentic Orthodox life in Budapest. Immediately following the hostile and illegal takeover in 2023, one of Chabad’s very first acts was to destroy the traditional, independent Orthodox school system. By shutting down authentic Orthodox education, they attempted to force remaining traditional families to surrender their children to Chabad-run indoctrination centers.

The consequences for the local traditional community have been devastating:

• Forced Exile: Numerous traditional families, unwilling to compromise their principles or subject their children to Chabad’s agenda, packed up their lives and fled Hungary altogether.
• Heartbreaking Dilemmas: Parents who remained were left with excruciating choices. Some surrendered to Chabad institutions out of sheer necessity, watching with daily grief as their children are exposed to foreign doctrines. Others chose to enroll their children in Neolog schools rather than yield to Chabad—a tragic testament to how Chabad’s aggressive tactics actively push Jews into the hands of the Neologs.

To mask the destruction of authentic Jewish education, Chabad operatives effectively handed over the use of the historic school building to non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees. While posing as humanitarians aiding war victims, the takeover administration displaced the local Orthodox children and turned the facility's day-to-day operations over to an entirely non-Jewish population.

In an absurd attempt to maintain the charade that the complex still functions as a "Jewish" institution, Chabad has begun shoving doses of Israeli nationalism and Zionist symbols onto Pravoslav Ukrainian children—forcing non-Jewish pupils to sing Hatikvah and listen to state diplomacy speeches, all to serve Chabad's political theater.

The shameless celebrations at Wesselényi Street demonstrate that Chabad's takeover was never about serving Hungarian Jewry, but about erasing its history, destroying its independent educational institutions, and handing its physical assets over to foreign nationalist interests.