Current sectionJewish WorldThe center is housed in a renovated, roughly 9,000-square-foot building in downtown Reykjavik that once operated as a bar and, before that, as the headquarters of a political party. The project has been funded largely through community donationsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe06:36 AM • July 13 2026 IDTUntil recently, this city located near the Arctic Circle was one of the few places in Europe where organized Jewish life did not exist, no synagogue, no ritual bath, no communal building. That changed this week, as the Jewish community in Iceland opened the Beit Shvidler Jewish Center of Iceland, the country's first-ever Jewish center.In the NewsEurope's Smallest Jewish Community Gets a New Home and Geothermal MikvahIsrael Killed Khamenei and Strengthened the Regime It Sought to DestroyJacob Bardugo Is Sabotaging the Profession of JournalismU.S. Launches Fresh Strikes on Iran as Tehran Expands Gulf RetaliationU.S. Central Command Says Dozens of Targets Hit Across Iran in Overnight StrikesRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Original Tradwives of Ancient RomeThe 'Special Relationship' Is Gone, and Israel Isn't Ready for What's ComingAs Israel Lacks Hundreds of Patrol Officers, West Bank Staff DoublesMade in Kurdistan, Smuggled via Jordan: The Mysterious Firearms Flooding IsraelEgypt Lost the World Cup. But Was the Referee Really Jewish?Inside the German pro-Israel Lobby's Campaign to Defund UNRWA