A Jewish man holds the Torah during a morning prayer at a synagogue in Budapest
A Jewish man holds the Torah during morning prayer at a synagogue in Budapest December 3, 2012. It is only relatively recently that Hungary's Jews have celebrated their identity as openly as they did when Europe's largest synagogue was built in Budapest in the 1850s. Now they are determined not to allow a political climate in which they have to defend that identity or even suppress it. Although anti-Semitism has not yet led to serious physical confrontations, hate crimes have included desecration of Jewish cemeteries and a verbal attack in Budapest on 90-year-old former Chief Rabbi Schweitzer. Picture taken December 3, 2012. To match HUNGARY-JEWS/ REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (HUNGARY - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS SOCIETY)