The film 30 Days of Night tackled the perplexing question: What do vampires do in northern Alaska, where the sun doesn’t show for an entire month? (Answer: they have a huge feast.) But it calls to mind a related question–what happens during a Shabbat that comes during that thirty-day sunset? Do Alaskan Jews observe Shabbat for an entire month? Or does this long, dark […]| Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A three-day ceremony dedicating the newly-opened community center of this northernmost Jewish community in the world has concluded here. Situated just three degrees below the Arctic Circle, Trondheim now has a Jewish community of 120. There were 340 Jews living here before World War II, but the Nazis deported all of them during the occupation. […]| Jewish Telegraphic Agency