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HUNGARIAN GOVT SENDS FOOD AID TO BELGRADE JEWISH COMMUNITY

 

The Hungarian government has sent a kosher food aid to a Jewish community in Belgrade to help their shortage in supplies during the coronavirus epidemic, the head of the Hungarian prime minister’s press office said. Rabbi Yehoshua Kaminetzky, of Belgrade’s Chabad-Lubavitch, Oberlander Baruch, president of the Budapest Orthodox Rabbinical Council, and György Szabó, a leader of Hungarian Jewish organisation MAZSÖK, thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the donation in a letter, Bertalan Havasai told MTI.
The community’s kosher food supplies ran out over the past months which made it difficult for them to practise religion, the leaders said. They commended the Hungarian foreign ministry and the country’s embassy in Belgrade for their “vast efforts” in arranging the delivery of the consignment to the Serbian capital.