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Iceland and the Jews: 9 Little Known Facts

Iceland and the Jews: 9 Little Known Facts Exploring the surprising Jewish connections to Iceland. The Academy Awards are coming up and Husavik, the song from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Ice Sage has been nominated for an Oscar. If that s not a good enough reason to explore the Jewish connection to Iceland, what is? A stunningly beautiful, sparsely inhabited Nordic country in the North Atlantic, Iceland has only 360,000 people and has been settled for only a little more than a thousand years. It might seem that Iceland is a country devoid of Jews, but in fact Jews have lived in Iceland for generations. Here are 9 little known facts about Jews and Iceland.

Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site

Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site
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Leading speech pathology researcher hopes to help change the world

CSU News 16 APRIL 2021 Dr Kate Crowe shares how her biggest aspiration is that her research and work to support multilingual learners who are Deaf and hard of hearing is contributing to a change in the world where being deaf is a difference in ability, not a disability. Travelling around the world (pre-COVID-19) to work on research or projects to support children with hearing loss is usually just another day at work for Dr Kate Crowe. The Newcastle-raised speech pathologist is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland – a place her mum says is about as far away from her roots as she can get.

Will Húsavík Earn an Óskar ? | The New Yorker

Save this story for later. Húsavík (population twenty-three hundred) is a fishing village on the northern coast of Iceland. Its chief industry is tourism: whale-watching (the town calls itself the Whale Capital of Iceland), a microbrewery, geothermal baths. In the winter, you can see the northern lights. “We really can’t complain, except that there are too few of us here—we need more people,” the town’s mayor, Kristján Þór Magnússon, said recently. His duties normally include meeting with school principals and sorting out staffing with the fire chief. But in 2019 Húsavík welcomed the Netflix comedy “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” for four days of filming. “No drones are to be operated over or around the set,” Magnússon warned citizens. But he couldn’t help feeling starstruck himself. Recalling a shoot at a local cemetery, he said, “If somebody had told me that I would be sitting at my

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