Coinciding with public commemorations of the founding of Hungary — celebrated every year on Aug. 20 — President Janos Ader bestowed the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic upon Chabad-Lubavitch of Hungary director Rabbi Baruch Oberlander.
The rabbi received the award from Minister of Human Resources Zoltan Balog during a special ceremony last Thursday.
Hungary’s highest state honor, the Order of Merit recognizes distinguished service to the country.
Oberlander, who came to Hungary in 1989 with wife Batsheva to establish the nation’s first Chabad House, received the medal in recognition for his more than two decades of rabbinical service and for sparking a revival of Hungarian Judaism.
Chabad-Lubavitch of Hungary recently welcomed three new emissary couples to its staff.
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Moshiach Now!!!!!!!!
A well deserved honor and a Kiddush Hashem and Lubavitch.
This is really Moshiachs time
What a Kidush Hashem !!
What nachas the Rebbe must have from this shliach.
In the merit of this achievement alone, he should be blessed with only tov ha’nireh v’hanigleh , and he should only know of simcha’s and more simcha’a….
I was a child but I don’t think that Jews in Hungary 55 years ago would have dreamed that after the Churbon of the Holocaust during WWII – there would be a revival of Yiddishkeit in Hungary