Michael Lipton of San Rafael was sitting in a hotel in downtown Budapest a few days before his fencing competition in the European Maccabi Games. The hotel was steps away from the Jewish quarter, where 70,000 Hungarian Jews were confined during World War II; 430,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Their fate was on Lipton’s mind as he prepared to compete in the all-Jewish, international sporting event held this summer in Budapest. Read more here >>>