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January 9, 2025

Meet Greenland’s Jew

Once there were Dutch-Jewish whalers. Now there is Paul Cohen of Narsaq.

One place where one cannot find a minyan is Greenland. In fact, the country appears to have but a sole permanent Jewish resident, Paul Cohen of Wisconsin, who lives with his wife in the remote village of Narsaq. Since the president-elect is considering expanding the American republic to include this vast island territory, it seems worth revisiting Dan Fellner’s profile of Cohen from August 2023:

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