re: Jimmy Kimmel ponders why Japan is so clean and orderly?

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A prominent Rabbi in Reykjavik, Iceland, has called on the Icelandic government to increase their efforts in providing support for refugees. Rabbi Avi Feldmann, who leads the only synagogue in the country, expressed concern over the lack of action taken by the government in addressing the global refugee crisis.

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Feldmann is from Brooklyn and moved to Iceland in 2018.

Iceland is probably just behind the timeline you see in the rest of Europe, be it the UK, France or Germany. You’ll see the same structural push for population replacement that you see elsewhere.

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As late as the mid-1990s, foreigners who acquired Icelandic citizenship were required to adopt an Icelandic name. However, strong economic growth over the past several decades and a booming tourism sector more recently have drawn greater numbers of immigrants to the island nation—bringing increased diversity to the once-homogeneous society.

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Strange scenes in the Icelandic parliament this week as three men broke into the building, with one half-naked protestor being dragged away from standing on a ledge overlooking the chamber. The trio are reportedly illegally settled migrants, and demanded at the scene that their families be allowed to enter the country and that they be given social housing.

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