Background info from Budapest Times. Summary: hurt Jewish religious leaders reject the lunch invitation of the President and Judapest's Shadai jumps in with a gift flódni, a traditional Jewish dessert.
Amazing myriad of comments and delighted people who appreciate the action, but read the spirit of it for yourselves:
His Excellency, Mister President, dear László Sólyom!
The Judapest.org is an online civil Jewish community which has existed exactly for three years now. The Judapest.org is committed to progressive and alternative Jewish expressions as for culture, politics, religion or communities. Our mere existence is a proof that the Hungarian Jewry has pluralistic roots, we are a varied and diverse community, just as Jewish tradition has always been.
The (official) political representation of the Hungarian Jewry is not known to be pluralistic at all. The only official Jewish representation, the Mazsihisz (The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities) enjoys full monopoly and rejects the aforementioned plurality in all its activities.
As a symbolic act we would like to send flódni (Hungarian Jewish dessert, yummy!!!) for today's lunch meeting on behalf of the Judapest.org community in order to express our deep conviction of the necessity of dialogue and pluralism.
Budapest, 4 December 2007
Yours sincerely,
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Now the best is that this flódni turned out to be the dessert at the luncheon, contrary to all security procedures. (They might have a mobile poison-lab around the president or checked it on a bodyguard, who knows :) So in the course of a couple of hours Shadai and SE managed to purchase, gift-wrap and Judapest.org sticker-seal the flódni and hand it to the protocol chief at the Presidential Residency, the Sándor Palace.
The funniest in it all is that the Hetiválasz in response sent two beiglis (another Hungarian dessert, one with puppy seed, the other with walnut filling) which was happily consumed by a group of falafel tasting companions, at a Judapest.org (on Facebook) offline event.
Ahh, have a look at pestcentric as well.
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