Danish, Swedish Jews hold first joint Limmud conference

Published on March 14, 2013

About 160 Swedes and Danes attended the first inter-Scandinavian Limmud Jewish learning event.

Danish Jews report record level of anti-Semitic attacks

Published on March 1, 2013

The Jewish community of Denmark documented 40 anti-Semitic incidents in 2012, almost double those in 2009, a year that marked a sharp upturn in such attacks.

Danish Jews angered by request not to display Israeli flag

Published on October 29, 2012

The organizers of a Copenhagen event celebrating diversity asked Danish Jews refrain from displaying the Israeli flag “for security reasons.”

In Scandinavia, kipah becomes a symbol of defiance for Malmo’s Jews

Published on September 24, 2012

Across Scandinavia, the kipah is becoming a symbol of Jewish defiance. On Sunday, about 70 Danish Jews took a double-decker bus from Copenhagen on a 10-mile bridge across the Strait of Øresund, on the Baltic Sea, to go to Malmo in a show of solidarity with the embattled Jews of that Swedish city. All the men on the bus wore kipahs, a rarity in Scandinavia.

Chaya’s Dance

By Beverly Gray
Published on April 8, 1999

Six years ago, Carol Solomon attended Yom Kippur services in Copenhagen. Flipping through the back of the English language prayerbook, she came upon a poem, translated from Hebrew, called "The Letter of the Ninety-Three Maidens." Based on an actual letter that was found after the Holocaust, it tells of young girls at a Jewish school in Cracow who took poison rather than allow themselves to be defiled by Nazi soldiers. Historians question the letter's authenticity. But for Solomon, "something about this story just captured my heart."