In June 2022, on the way to a conference in France, I spent a few days in Budapest. Not expecting much except for a pleasant few days in an interesting and historic city, I was greatly impressed.
It has the world’s third-largest parliamentary building, a 13th-century castle, one of the most popular pubs in all of Europe, and from a Jewish perspective, the second-largest synagogue in Europe, and the third-largest European Jewish…