The center is housed in a renovated, roughly 9,000-square-foot building in downtown Reykjavik that once operated as a bar and, before that, as the headquarters of a political party. The project has been funded largely through community donations
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The center is housed in a renovated, roughly 9,000-square-foot building in downtown Reykjavik that once operated as a bar and, before that, as the headquarters of a political party. The project has been funded largely through community donations
06:36 AM • July 13 2026 IDT
Until recently, this city 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 week, as the Jewish community in Iceland opened the Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland, the country's first-ever Jewish center.
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