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A Hanukkah celebration in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland, drew the country’s foreign minister in 2025.
EUROPE’S SMALLEST JEWISH COMMUNITY GETS A HOME OF ITS OWN by JENNA GOTTLIEB COMMUNITY
UNTIL RECENTLY, Reykjavík, located near the Arctic Circle, was one of the few places in Europe where organized Jewish life did not exist: no synagogue, no ritual bath, no communal building. That changed this summer, as the Jew- ish community in Iceland opened the Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland, the country’s first-ever Jewish centre. Housed in a renovated downtown building that once operated as a bar
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