Iceland welcomed its first permanent Torah scroll.
The final letters of the Torah were written at a reception last Thursday at the home of the US ambassador to Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, who is Jewish, according to Chabad.
The new scroll, which took a year to write, was donated to the Jewish community of Reykjavik by Uri Krauss of Zurich, Switzerland.
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The Chabad center was opened in 2018, the first full-time Jewish institution on the island nation. It has been borrowing the Torah scroll used every Shabbat morning.
