Rabbi Feldman described his appointment as “a challenge”, but emphasised the “tremendous opportunity to set up a living breathing community. We want to focus on the Jewish needs of everyone who lives, works or travels to Iceland”.
Mrs Feldman said: “On social media, I kept seeing people traveling to Iceland. I told my husband that we should start looking at it more seriously.”
Mike Levin, a volunteer from Chicago who currently runs the Icelandic community, said: “If someone puts their full-time concentration on Jewish life in Iceland, they can do a lot of things here.”
The Feldmans will travel to Iceland next month in time to prepare for Pesach before settling permanently later in the year.
