8 Facts About Jewish Alaska

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 id="headline" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" src="http://forward.com/image/2/630/0/5//assets/images/articles/w-WyattEarp-110514.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-style: none none solid; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px -2px;" /><span style="color: #8b8c8d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; line-height: 10px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;">BIOGRAPHY.COM</span></h1> <ol style="text-align: left;"> <li>As of 2012, Alaska is home to just over 6,000 Jews.<br /></li> <li>Four mountain peaks in Alaska are named after Jews, including Mount Ripinsky for Solomon Ripinsky, a former mayor of Haines, Alaska, and Mount Neuberger for former Oregon Senator Richard Neuberger, who supported Alaskan statehood.<br /></li> <li>The largest Jewish congregation in Alaska, Congregation Beth Sholom in Anchorage, calls Alaskan Jews the “frozen chosen.” (Its website is frozenchosen.org )<br /></li> <li>Western lawman and sheriff Wyatt Earp and his Jewish wife Josie ran a saloon in Nome.<br /></li> <li>Russian-born Jew Abe Spring was the first mayor of Fairbanks. In 1906, during a period of Russian pogroms, he proposed housing persecuted Russian Jews in Alaska. The plan was rejected by congress.<br /></li> <li>In 2011, Sarah Palin called former Alaskan member of the House of Representatives Jay Ramras “Jay Bird-Nose Ramras” in an email.<br /></li> <li>Marty Beckerman, who has written popular comedic books such as “Dumbocracy” and published his first book at 16, grew up in Anchorage.<br /></li> <li>Ernest Gruening, who served as governor of the Alaskan territory from 1939 to 1953, became one of Alaska’s first official senators when the territory was turned into a state in 1959.</li> </ol> <div> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/208535/-facts-about-jewish-alaska/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Source Post)</a></div> </div>

8 Facts About Jewish Alaska

BIOGRAPHY.COM As of 2012, Alaska is home to just over 6,000 Jews. Four mountain peaks in Alaska are named after Jews, including Mount R...

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