Chag Urim Sameach!

[canuck]

and lest we forget...

"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They’d tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!"-Alan King

I spent a couple weeks in Budapest in October. My wife and I visited the Jewish ghetto and the great synagogue. There is a renewal of sorts and there seems to be a homecoming or at least some in migration from Israel and other parts of the Diaspora. So many people died in Hungary to the hands of the Nazis but also valiant Jewish intellectuals perished in the Revolution against Soviet rule. The culture manages to endure with the small remaining community.

[Király]

and lest we forget...

"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They’d tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!"-Alan King

Simon Rakoff's version: "They tried to kill all of the Jews, they only managed to kill some of the Jews, so we celebrate."

I spent a couple weeks in Budapest in October. My wife and I visited the Jewish ghetto and the great synagogue. There is a renewal of sorts and there seems to be a homecoming or at least some in migration from Israel and other parts of the Diaspora.

I hope it works out for them. There is a great deal of xenophobia in Hungary and antisemitism is particularly bad. I have heard it many times myself from my father-in-law and brother-in-law who live there.

Confession: When I saw the title of this thread, I had no idea it was a Hanukkah greeting. It looked to me more like some Gaelic language than Hebrew.

[Zozo]

I hope it works out for them. There is a great deal of xenophobia in Hungary and antisemitism is particularly bad. I have heard it many times myself from my father-in-law and brother-in-law who live there.

May the Hungarians never forget the murderous Jew tyrant Bela Kun, nor the 500 year old military invasions by Islam.

[archfan]

May the Hungarians never forget the murderous Jew tyrant Bela Kun, nor the 500 year old military invasions by Islam.

A better description for Bela Kun is 'murderous Communist tyrant'.

And if all Hungarians are like my Hungarian relatives, they'll never forget anything that was done against them.