>>851"Hope Knutsson, a New York Jew who works as an occupational therapist in Reykjavik, where she has lived for the past 29 years, thinks "it's nice that there is someone here who represents a different culture. The majority of the people here are very much alike, it's a homogeneous country, so it's nice to have a Jewish woman representing the few Jews who live here. True, we tried to invite her to meetings of ours, and she didn't come, but the average Icelander doesn't even know that there are Jews here. Most of us don't want to be identified as Jews, and it was a brave act by the president to marry a Jewish woman."