On October 27, Dr. András Zima’s habilitation defense and lectures took place, centered around his thesis titled Re-tunings, Old Concepts, New Contexts: Jewish Press Discourses in Hungary between 1945 and 1948. The topic of the professional debate was “What are the tasks of Jewish community education in Hungary after the Shoah?” His Hungarian-language lecture addressed the use of Jewish tradition in adapting modern political systems, while his English-language academic lecture was titled The Memory of the Temple and the Holy Land in ‘the New Era’. We congratulate our director on the successful defense of his habilitation!