Current Events 14: Mystery Lunch in the Jewish Quarter

April 25, 2019 - We ate in a ramshackle falafel joint where we could not tell what we had ordered, owing to the girl cashier's limited En...
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Current Events 13: The Synagogue on Kazinczy Street

April 18, 2019 - Near the Great Synagogue on Dohany was a much smaller, Orthodox one on Kazinczy Street. It was about a century old. The...
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Current Events 12: The Tree's Testimony

April 11, 2019 - In the synagogue courtyard stands a monument to the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. It acknowledges Wallenberg's cour...
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Current Events 11: Cries from the Stones

April 04, 2019 - The most unusual feature of the Dohany was not the pipe organ nor the cathedral-like construction, but its graveyard. Sy...
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