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This northern Norway city has adopted a one-of-a-kind approach to observing Shabbat

July 8, 2025July 8, 2025Jesse Orine

TRONDHEIM, Norway — If ever there was a synagogue that’s earned the right to throw itself a birthday shindig, it’s this elegant and intriguing house of worship in central Norway only 220 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Over the past century, the Trondheim Synagogue has weathered isolation from the rest of the Jewish world; […]

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Norway wealth fund’s ethics watchdog to probe companies over Gaza war

March 21, 2024October 9, 2024David Rutman

The ethics council of Norway’s $1.6 trillion wealth fund says it is investigating whether companies in which it holds shares fall outside its permitted investment guidelines due to the war in Gaza. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, which owns 1.5% of the world’s listed shares across 8,800 companies, operates under ethical rules set by […]

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Study reveals one in eight suffer chronic pain after cosmetic surgery

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024Arsen Mayer

Most people who undergo cosmetic surgery think “no pain, no gain” and that the discomfort will end very soon after they recover from the operation. But they are wrong. Fully one out of eight people in Norway who submitted to the scalpel of a plastic surgeon to look better said they suffer from chronic pain […]

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