10 best luxury hotels in Budapest, from old-world grandeur to modern design. The Hungarian capital’s luxury scene is booming with a revival of heritage buildings.

The Anantara New York Palace lies minutes away from Budapest’s synagogues and ruin bars, but guests don’t just book here for the location.

The 2005 book The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days on World War II by Krisztián Ungváry filled in my knowledge of the onslaught against Hungarian Jews and their struggles in ghettos and elsewhere ...

Budapest is the start and end point of many river cruises on the Rhine-Danube, ... Dohany Square for one of the world’s largest and most beautiful synagogues. Built in 1859, ...

A 13-year-old Ohio boy charged with planning a mass shooting at a Jewish synagogue has been ordered to serve one ... a Swiss diplomat who saved over 62,000 Jewish people in Budapest during World ...

Roughly 100,000 Jews live in Budapest today, but nearly 95% of them are unaffiliated. Ohel Eszter hopes to provide a home for them, a place where the Jewish community can come together once again.

He and his family survived in the Budapest ghetto, ... Mátyás: I’ve been to many places, more than 120 synagogues and more than 150 cemeteries across Europe.

There had been no sign of the building since it was torn down in June 1938, after Hitler demanded its removal as an "eyesore". Five months later, Jews, synagogues and Jewish-run businesses were ...

Budapest’s Jewish Quarter is anchored by three synagogues corresponding to different factions of Hungarian Jewish life that emerged following a theological schism in 1869. Today it forms what is ...

BUDAPEST — Still a major hub of Jewish thought and culture, Budapest is home to several imposing Jewish institutions, such as the majestic Dohany Synagogue and the 145-year-old University of ...