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Jews in Norway

The Trondheim Synagogue in Norway, one of the northernmost synagogues in the world, marks its 100-year anniversary in October 2025. (Dan Fellner/ JTA)
July 11, 2025, 10:34 am
Just south of the Arctic, 100-year-old Norwegian synagogue has unique approach to Shabbat
Now celebrating its centennial, the Trondheim Synagogue has so far survived the Nazis, modern antisemitism, geographical isolation — and some particular halachic challenges
By dan fellner
Police stand guard at the site of a mass shooting in Oslo, early June 25, 2022. (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)
October 8, 2024, 7:55 pm
Norway hikes terror threat level to ‘high’ over threats to Jewish, Israeli sites
Alert comes week after neighboring Denmark charged 2 suspects for detonating hand grenades near Israel’s embassy
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Jewish man wearing a kippah holds a Norwegian flag on Constitution Day in Oslo. (Fishman/ullstein bild via Getty Images/JTA)
June 28, 2022, 5:35 am
Norwegian Jews seek changes to national calendar that ignores most of their holidays
Current debate is one of several disputes between Jewish communal leaders, authorities in predominantly secular societies of Scandinavia, Northern Europe
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Cathedral of Bergen, Norway. (CC BY -SA Diego Delso/Wikimedia Commons)
September 25, 2021, 4:36 am
Norwegian church hosts photo exhibit saying Palestinians are ‘crucified daily’
Jewish community protests evocation of classic Christian antisemitism blaming Jews for death of Jesus
By JTA
File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)
March 11, 2021, 10:33 pm
After outcry, Holocaust survivors allowed to move to Oslo Jewish nursing home
Skien municipality reverses decision to deny request to go to facility in Norwegian capital on grounds it could provide accommodations locally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)
March 10, 2021, 6:36 pm
Holocaust survivors’ plea to move to Norway’s only Jewish nursing home denied
City of Skien refuses to let the two relocate to Oslo facility, says it ‘can provide a good and adequate offer’ locally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Shaun Henrik Matheson on September 27, 2019 (Screen grab/Facebook)
March 6, 2021, 12:36 pm
Watchdog: Norwegian broadcaster should be censured for anchor’s ‘anti-Semitism’
Simon Wiesenthal Center makes demand after radio host wishes the vaccine ‘did not work in Israel’ and says ‘Israel is a shitty country,’ comments later praised by neo-Nazis
By ToI Staff
ILLUSTRATIVE -- Members of the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement march through the town of Ludvika, central Sweden, on May 1, 2018. (Ulf Palm/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:38 am
Scandinavian neo-Nazis circulate anti-Semitic flyers on Yom Kippur
Far-right extremists carried out coordinated campaign in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Jewish holy day, says World Jewish Congress
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: a Jewish circumcision ceremony in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
March 17, 2020, 4:52 pm
As corona cuts off borders, Oslo baby’s delayed circumcision is tip of iceberg
Small Jewish communities are left bereft of rabbis, cantors, and ritual circumcisers as countries attempt to stem spread of COVID-19
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Norwegian rapper Kaveh Kholardi. (Facebook screen capture/via JTA)
March 13, 2019, 5:34 pm
Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘F**king Jews’ slur could be criticism of Israel
Top legal official Tor-Aksel Busch says Kaveh Kholardi, who cursed Jews on stage during Oslo pro-diversity event, won’t be charged with hate speech
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In the new Holocaust dramatic film 'The Bird Catcher,' Norwegian Jewish teenage girl Esther (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) is shown posing as a non-Jewish boy named Ola to survive persecution by the Nazis and collaborators. (Courtesy)
February 5, 2019, 5:42 pm
Running from Nazis, Norwegian Jewish girl masquerades as teenage boy in new film
Esther hides in plain sight with a pro-Nazi family in ‘The Bird Catcher,’ a gripping new drama that premiered this week which highlights an overlooked chapter of Holocaust history
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)
July 11, 2018, 8:31 pm
Norwegian hospitals refuse to assist in circumcisions
Breaking the law, two hospitals refuse to provide non-medical procedure to boys under three
By JTA
President of the Oslo Jewish community Ervin Kohn (YouTube screenshot)
May 20, 2017, 9:47 am
Norwegian Jewish leader: Trade union’s boycott vote was anti-Semitic
Ervin Kohn says he is ‘not so interested in it but rather in ways to achieve peace’
By JTA
A Norwegian advert featuring teddy bears resembling Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler that was banned in January 2016.
January 27, 2016, 11:21 pm
Norway bans anti-asthma Hitler teddy bear ads
Campaign was designed to highlight health danger of dusty toys, but opponents feared it could make Nazi leader endearing
By ToI Staff
More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" around the Norwegian capital's synagogue, an initiative taken by young Muslims in Norway after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, in Oslo, Saturday, February 21 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix)
February 22, 2015, 12:33 am
1,000 join Muslim ‘ring of peace’ outside Oslo synagogue
Gathering meant as gesture of solidarity following attacks; ‘Jews and Muslims do not hate each other,’ organizer says
By AP and ToI Staff
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