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ליקוטי שמואל — europe — Va'etchanan 5786

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — europe — Va'etchanan 5786. Темы: kashrut, family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Order here: https://dash.bookpod.co.il/product/2231 Europe’s smallest Jewish community gets a home of its own — soon with geothermal mikveh 9,000-square-foot building in Reykjavik that once held a pub now serves as the city’s first permanent center of Jewish life, and is in the running for world’s northernmost Chabad house 3 By JENNA GOTTLIEB REYKJAVIK, Iceland (JTA) — 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. “The Feldmans managed to pull together the resources, the building and the work to turn a disused political party headquarters and restaurant into a Jewish center that can serve not only our small community but the far larger group of visitors from all over the Jewish world who come for our natural beauty and peaceful isolation,” added Klein. (Iceland’s relatively small number of Jews means that there is little record of antisemitism; anti-Israel sentiment is strong, with the country one of five to boycott the Eurovision song contest this year over Israel’s participation.) “It’s not like we’ve been hiding or aren’t a strong community; we celebrate holidays together, and there are Shabbat dinners,” he 6 continued. Avraham Feldman said the space will hold a display case with three small prayer books donated by early Jewish residents, the only known surviving physical remnants of Jewish life in Iceland before his arrival, a reminder of how recent, and how hard-won, this permanence has been. That began to change in 2018, when the Feldmans relocated from the United States to Reykjavik to establish a Chabad-Lubavitch presence, becoming Iceland’s first permanently stationed rabbi and rebbetzin in the country’s documented history of 1,000 years. For decades afterward, Jewish life in Iceland survived on the efforts of a handful of dedicated volunteers who coordinated informal gatherings, often meeting in rented spaces or in the basement of Hallgrímskirkja, the country’s most recognizable church. In a city that caters to tourists, and for a comm

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ליקוטי שמואל

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24 июля 2026 г.

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6

Темы: kashrut, family_education, parsha_commentary