Tag: Iceland

The flight between the two cities is estimated at seven hours.

Well, the Jewish people are grateful, even though every last one of us cannot, as hard as we may try, pronounce "Hjálmtýsson."

Since cancelling the game with Israel the Argentinian team has met with a series of unfortunate incidents.

Argentina, which plays in Group D, will be playing against Croatia and Nigeria next.

It's not yet clear how many other nations may use the supposedly non-political, musical bridge between cultural groups that Eurovision was supposed to represent since its creation in 1956.

“The most striking finding of the report is the remarkable consistency between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born.”

A kind of Jerusalem fever gripped much of the world from about 1000 to 1400. Across three continents, thousands made their way to the Holy City—from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions alike.

An Israeli man, 65, was killed after falling during a hike while on vacation in Iceland.

Reykjavik passed a law boycotting all Israeli products. Both Israel and Iceland are parties to the WTO which bans such boycotts.

Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.

The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque's construction costs.

While the meal featured heads of state, Nobel laureates and people of world renown, it had a homely feeling where no one in particular was made to feel more important than the next person.

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are on the ground in Iceland finishing up preparations for one of the northernmost celebrations of Yom Kippur in the world....