The Jewish community in Iceland joyfully held a hachnasas Sefer Torah last week in the capital city of Reykjavík for the Nordic country’s first permanent Torah, a JTA report said.
For a country in which shechita has been illegal for decades and has made headlines in the Jewish press for its proposal to criminalize circumcision in recent years, a Sefer Torah is really something to rejoice about.
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