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The Teleki Square shul was established by Jews from Ukraine that settled in Budapest in the 1920s.

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A lawmaker for the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary said the Auschwitz death camp museum "may not reflect real facts." Tamas Gaudi-Nagy made the statement on Thursday during a discussion in Parliament on a proposal to facilitate visits by teenagers or young adults to the former Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, where approximately ... (more)

Others suggest that economic conditions play a role in the westward flow of brainpower that is leaving Hungary's future uncertain.

Budapest, Hungary May 22, 2013 Renown indie developer NeocoreGames today announced that The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing , a gothic-noir steampunk action-RPG influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, is now available worldwide for Windows PC for $14.99 through Steam .

George Webber, a.k.a Count Agoston Haraszthy, reports from Hungary: "After helping to form a Sister City between Sonoma and Tokaj, Hungary last year, I am en-route to the Tokaj Wine Festival; first stop Budapest.

New York, NY, May 22, 2013 -- -- The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications , the leading international venue dedicated to the advancement of wireless and wireline communications, has expanded its comprehensive learning schedule with the addition of hundreds of senior telecommunications experts dedicated to the advance of the latest ... (more)

Another major motion picture is filming this week in Pinellas County, aimed at a much older audience than Spring Breakers and Magic Mike .

"In the end," says curator Louis Levine of his latest exhibit, dedicated to the life of the poet Hannah Senesh, "this is not a Holocaust story.

"In eastern Europe, the uniqueness of the Holocaust has been blurred through a misleading equation of Nazism with Communist tyranny." Since 2007, I have actively participated in all three global forums held in Jerusalem to combat anti- Semitism.

Red Synthetic Line Oil announced today its sponsorship of Team USA in the Monster Energy Speedway World Cup.

Dogs get a last-minute brushing and touch-up before their turn at the World Dog Show in Budapest, Hungary on May 16, 2013.

Hungarian senior prime ministerial adviser Zsigmond Perenyi is set to arrive in Israel in late May for a series of meetings with Foreign Ministry officials on the issue of anti-Semitism in his country, At 100,000 members, Hungary has the largest Jewish community in Central Europe, and local Jews are worried over the rise of the far-right Jobbik ... (more)

There is a ghostly quality about the photo series titled Stay by Akos Major, a photographer based in Budapest, Hungary, that has everything to do with the blanched beauty of each scene.

In three successive days our city witnessed piano recitals of the highest level: the marvellous audacity of Dejan Lazic in two sessions for the Mozarteum with identical programming at the Coln, and a Romantic combination of Chopin and Rachmaninov offered with splendid command by Irina Dichkovskaia in a Mozarteum Midday Concert at the Gran Rex.

The legend Judit Polgar will meet her older sister Sofia in front of 500 children by the area of Porto-Vecchio on May 13th and 14th.

Semilab Co. Ltd. is a solar energy company, based in Hungary. The company develops, manufactures, sells and markets solar equipment and related applications for an alternative energy industry.

Powered by an in-demand platform of comfort, style, and value, that's "best for business," Four Points by Sheraton today unveiled a thriving global pipeline of hotels that sets the stage for a milestone 200th opening in 2014.

If your understanding of what, exactly, the Hungarian American Caucus has been up to in recent years is as clear as a bowl of paprika-spiked goulash, allow HOH to bring you up to speed.

An anti-demonstrator lifts a home-made picture with a Swastika and photos of the party leaders and representatives of the nationalist party of the Hungarian Parliament, the JOBBIK's during a demonstration of the nationalist party in Budapest downtown, nearby the parliament building on May 4, 2013.