Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2013 (25. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2013-02-08 / 6. szám
Hungarian Journal Hűt *r I 1 *^9-Hungary Plans Synagogue The Jewish community of Budapest has announced plans to build a new synagogue for the first time in 80 years. Construction is expected to end before November 2014. The foundation stone for the new synagogue in Budapest’s Csepel district is scheduled to be laid in a ceremony on Sunday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, attended by leaders of Hungary’s Jewish community and senior government officials. “There are worrying trends in Hungary as represented by the anti- Semitic Jobbik party, but at the same time there is a vibrant Jewish community and much attentiveness to their needs and welfare on the part of many in government,” said Joel Rubinfeld, co-chair of the European Jewish Parliament, who returned last week to Belgium from a round of talks with Hungarian officials on curbing anti-Semitism there. fonvard.com Hungary seeks closer ties with Russia, says PM A new economic world order will emerge from the current crisis with Hungary and Russia in closer cooperation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told MTI in an interview, adding that his current visit to Moscow was an important step in this direction. Orbán said he and President Vladimir Putin had discussed a range of issues important to the Hungarian people. MTI Life takes Bela Sándor to chariots on TV Bela Sándor has been many things in his 77 years — Hungarian refugee, UW-Madison professor of engineering mechanics, ballet dancer, champion swimmer — and next week he’ll add another: television star. Sándor will be featured in an episode of the public television science series “NOVA.” It’s titled “Building Pharaoh’s Chariot” and is scheduled to air on Wisconsin Public Television. The program is based on Sandor’s seminal research into the engineering design of the half dozen chariots found when the tomb of King Tut was discovered in the 1920s. The producers flew Sándor to Cairo last summer for interviews and to watch the filming. Prior to Sandor’s work on the subject — he began about a decade ago — archaeologists had been somewhat dismissive of the design of the ancient chariots. All most lay people knew of them was that Charlton Heston rode one to a best picture Oscar in the 1959 film “Ben Hur.” Sándor is not a fan of the chariot races in the film. Asked what they got wrong, he said, “Almost everything.” The movie chariots were big and unwieldy. In life they were light, sleek, fast, the design surprisingly sophisticated. Sándor came relatively late to chariots, but he has long been interested in how things work, or don’t, specifically the fatigue and fracture of structural material. “I know about everything breaking,” he said. Sándor is originally from Hungary, a country he left in late 1956, age 21, fleeing a repressive regime. He landed in New York harbor on New Year’s Day 1957. He had little English and less money. At a refugee camp in New Jersey, he met a woman who was recruiting students to the University of Illinois in Champaign. There was a possibility of scholarship money. “I didn’t know where Illinois was,” Sándor said. He consulted a young man about his age serving dinner in the camp food line. “Illinois?” The young man appeared confused. “Illinois?” Sándor repeated. The young man grinned. “Good football.” That was enough for Sándor. He took a train to Chicago — arriving in a blizzard — and eventually made it to Champaign, where he learned English, swam on the varsity swim team, and earned, in 1961, a bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. He got a job at the Bell Telephone Lab in New Jersey, and Bell encouraged him to get his master’s at New York University. He came back to Illinois for his doctorate in 1968, the same year he was hired at UW-Madison. He has been here ever since, assuming emeritus status in 1997. Sándor enjoyed teaching, interacting with young people, and found interests outside the classroom to engage him — writing, sculpture, and, especially, ballet. He found movement, stability and strength in dance, things an engineering professor could appreciate. Sándor took classes and performed in ballets. He took writing classes in Door County, where he and his wife, Ruth, have a home and spend six months of the year. The classes were taught by the esteemed Wisconsin author Norb Blei, with whom Sándor forged a friendship. It was at the YMCA in Door County that Sándor rediscovered swimming, his college sport. It was a little over a decade ago. A lifeguard saw him in the pool and said, “Why don’t you join our Masters group?” By 2004, Sándor would win a national Masters championship (ages 65-69) in a pool in Indianapolis, capturing the 100-meter breaststroke. Two years later, he set a national record in the 200- meter breaststroke. Sándor first saw the ancient chariots at a museum in Cairo in 1998. “I pretty much just walked past them,” he said. Two years later, on a return trip, he looked more closely. Soon Sándor was immersed in the subject. The chariot, he concluded — they date back some 3,500 years — was superbly designed, the earliest high-performance machine, with a suspension system including springs and shock absorbers. “It has many features of excellent design even by our standards,” Sándor wrote in a ground-breaking 2004 article for the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Doug Moe, Wisconsin State Journal Highest Quality Care at the Best Price! Elderly, Rehabilitating, Children, Newborn Beszélünk magyarul is! Ingyenes konzultáció otthonában. 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