After a LOT Airlines flight was forced to unexpectedly land in Iceland due to an unruly passenger on Sunday night, some frum passengers passed the time by holding a kumzits. But eventually, the passengers, including 60 frum ones, were put up in a hotel for the night around midnight.
The frum passengers contacted the closest shilichei Chabad, Rabbi Avi and Mushky Feldman, who have been living in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjav�k since February 2018.
The Feldmans traveled for 45 minutes to bring food to the passengers and made the round trip again on Monday morning, bringing a Sefer Torah for Shacharis of Rosh Chodesh Shevat as well as breakfast and lunch, a Collive report said. The passengers were scheduled to leave Iceland on Monday at about 5 p.m.
So many people kept telling me, �I love Chabad,� �I can�t believe you have this kind of Kosher food in Iceland,� and �Mi K�amcha yisroel!’� Rabbi Feldman told COLlive. �It was an amazing Kiddush Hashem.�
Iceland has a population of only 250 Jews. Shechita has been illegal in the country for decades and besides Chabad, there are no other shuls in the country.
�The country actually has a lot more kosher products than many people realize,� Rabbi Feldman told JTA in 2018. “This is because the island depends on imports from Europe and the United States, �so this means you can find products with a kosher label in your average minimarket.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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how can one “unruly” passenger disrupt an entire flight like this?? five guys should grab him,hogtie him and lockhim in a closet!
stevehynes, did you see the pictures of these passengers? They are all chareidi, frum! You wrote they should “hogtie” – anything with “hog” in it is unacceptable for them. And as far as “grab him” – pr “lock him in a closet” – yadayim yedei Eisov, these fellas daven (HaKol kol yaaov) and leave the manhandling to others.