Ministry approves first-ever HE Jewish studies programme

Hungary’s Education Ministry has approved a Jewish studies programme at Milton Friedman University in Budapest, marking the first time Jewish studies will be offered as a degree programme in the country, reports The Times of Israel.

The decision was announced during a 10 February meeting between Education Minister Balazs Hanko and Rabbi Shlomo Köves, chief rabbi of the EMIH Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities.

The Jewish studies programme will be available at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. While the undergraduate programme will be taught in person in Hungarian, the graduate programme will be offered online in English, making it accessible to students in Hungary and abroad. Named after the renowned Jewish-American economist whose immigrant parents were from what was then part of Hungary (and now is part of Ukraine), Milton Friedman University opened in its current form in 2018 after being acquired by EMIH, which is affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
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