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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
Hillel attendees in Berlin build a sukkah. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 2:11 pm
Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot
From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection
By Mati Wagner
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
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
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
Illustrative photo of a remote home in Norway (CC BY-supervillian, Flickr)
August 13, 2016, 4:37 am
Fasting in the lands of the midnight sun
Extremely long summer days in Norway bring challenges for Jews and Muslims when observing fast days like Tisha B’Av
By Cnaan Liphshiz
File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)
May 13, 2016, 10:11 pm
Oslo police seek man behind bomb scare at main synagogue
Empty suitcase placed at entrance to house of prayer in Norwegian capital
By JTA
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
A prewar synagogue in Trondheim, Norway. (Photo credit: CC BY Trondheim Byarkiv, Flickr.com)
October 29, 2014, 4:37 pm
Jewish cemetery in Norway vandalized
President of Oslo’s Jewish community says ‘Jew’ is a commonly used as a curse word in Norwegian schools
By JTA
November 27, 2012, 5:50 pm
Norwegian Police apologize for sending Jews to Auschwitz
Statement comes on 70th anniversary of main deportation
A prewar synagogue in Trondheim, Norway. (Photo credit: CC BY Trondheim Byarkiv, Flickr.com)
November 26, 2012, 10:14 pm
Seventy years after the Donau, what has Norway learned?
On the anniversary of the country’s largest transport of Jews to Auschwitz, a Norwegian journalist ponders the history and future of a tiny, endangered minority
By Leif Knutsen
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