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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Alaska

The Alaska Jewish Museum in Anchorage, September 22, 2021. (Jeffrey Beall via Creative Commons)
July 28, 2023, 9:05 am
Alaska man gets 18 months in prison after vandalizing Jewish museum with swastikas
Federal authorities initially tracked down Luke Foster due to his unrelated efforts to sell hallucinogenic mushrooms online, for which he was also convicted
By Andrew Lapin
FBI special agents assigned to the evidence response team process material recovered from the high altitude balloon recovered off the coast of South Carolina, February 9, 2023, at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. (FBI via AP)
February 12, 2023, 8:26 pm
Objects shot down over Alaska, Yukon were balloons, US Senate leader says
Schumer says devices downed from 40,000 feet in air were smaller than Chinese balloon downed off South Carolina earlier this month, officials trying to analyze debris for data
By AP
Illustrative photo of an American F-15 intercepting a Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber during a Russian exercise near the west coast of Alaska in 2008. (US Air Force/Wikimedia Commons)
October 18, 2022, 9:05 pm
US fighter jets intercept Russian bombers near Alaska
North American Aerospace Defense Command says the Tu-95s weren’t seen as threat, with incident coming amid heightened tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By AFP
The stained-glass window at the front of the St. Peter's by the Sea Espicopal church in downtown Sitka, Alaska, features a star of David in its center. (Dan Fellner/ JTA)
August 30, 2022, 4:20 am
Why does a 120-year-old church in Alaska have a prominent Star of David window?
Locals only have theories about how a seemingly out-of-place icon in the remote town of Sitka got there, but one thing is certain: The beloved landmark spurs conversation
By dan fellner
Republican Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming speaks as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
August 16, 2022, 6:17 pm
Liz Cheney braces for primary loss as Trump is tested in Wyoming, Alaska
Ally of former VP’s daughter, who has emerged as a leading Republican adversary of Trump, says her defeat will show ‘how much of a stranglehold’ the ex-president has on the GOP
By Steve Peoples and Mead Gruver
Independent candidate Al Gross (Gross for Senate Campaign via AP)
April 7, 2022, 10:00 am
Bear-killing Jewish doctor takes on Santa Claus, Sarah Palin in Alaska House race
Onetime gold prospector is 1 of 50 candidates in special election, alongside Trump-backed former governor and Bernie Sanders-loving Saint Nicholas
By Andrew Lapin
Anti-mask activist wearing a yellow star at the Anchorage Assembly meeting on mask mandates, September 20, 2021 (Screen grab/Twitter)
October 1, 2021, 9:38 am
Anchorage mayor: Anti-maskers’ use of yellow stars as symbol is ‘credit’ to Jews
Mayor of Alaska’s largest city later apologizes for supporting use of Holocaust imagery to liken mask mandates to oppression of Jewish people in Nazi Germany
By AP
Illustrative: A sticker with a swastika is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 25, 2021. (Anchorage Police Department)
May 28, 2021, 3:08 pm
Swastika stickers slapped on Alaska Jewish museum, gay bar
Stickers put up in Anchorage include the text ‘WE ARE EVERYWHERE’; rabbi says perpetrator ‘is dealing with the wrong people. We are not the people that fear’
By MARK THIESSEN
ILLUSTRATIVE -- This photo taken June 25, 2015, shows inbound morning rush hour traffic on the Glenn Highway from the Bragaw Street overpass in Anchorage, Alaska (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
January 30, 2021, 9:41 am
Alaska announces screening changes after issuing ‘3REICH’ license plate
State opens probe into how plate was issued to individual who previously owned ‘FUHRER’ plate; member of state Human Rights Commission booted for defending it as freedom of speech
By BECKY BOHRER
Alaska Department of Administration Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka appears before a state House committee in Juneau, Alaska, Feb. 6, 2020. (Becky Bohrer/AP)
January 27, 2021, 8:48 am
Alaska to investigate issue of ‘3REICH’ license plate, other offensive plates
Official opens probe into how plate was issued; member of state Human Rights Commission booted for defending it as freedom of speech
By BECKY BOHRER
Illustrative: A nurse prepares to give an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine to a healthcare worker at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, California on December 16, 2020. (Brian van der Brug/Pool/AFP)
December 16, 2020, 11:20 pm
Alaska health worker has serious allergic reaction to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine
Pharma firm says it is working with local authorities to assess matter and follows all reports of allergic reactions after vaccination, will ‘update labeling language if needed’
By AFP
US Sen. Dan Sullivan, an Alaska Republican seeking reelection, waves a sign at a busy intersection on November 2, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
November 11, 2020, 11:38 pm
Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan defeats Al Gross in Senate contest
Incumbent easily reelected with more than 57 percent of the vote over Jewish doctor, giving GOP 50 Senate seats before Georgia runoffs
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Alaska US Senate candidate Al Gross speaks to supporters at an event at a downtown park in Juneau, Alaska, on October 31, 2020, as his wife, Monica Gross, at right, looks on. (AP/Becky Bohrer)
November 6, 2020, 5:28 pm
‘We believe we will win,’ says Al Gross in Alaska, lagging in Senate bid
With only about half the votes counted, Democrat believes he can make up ground as mail-in votes are counted
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Independent candidate Al Gross (Gross for Senate Campaign via AP)
November 1, 2020, 12:59 pm
Alaska GOP senator’s ad against Jewish challenger criticized as anti-Semitic
Al Gross slams Dan Sullivan’s ‘disgusting’ campaign spot, which portrays him surrounded by $100 bills with a graphic of Chuck Schumer in the background
By ToI Staff
Clockwise, from top left: Al Gross, Jon Ossoff, Merav Ben-David and Matt Lieberman. (Screen shots from YouTube; Getty Images; Ron Kampeas, all via JTA)
October 28, 2020, 11:43 pm
4 Jews are running for Senate in 2020; 2 have a chance to help turn it blue
Candidates are a doctor who killed a bear, a scientist who makes a mean matzah ball, a son of a former vice presidential candidate and a star of the anti-Trump resistance
By Ron Kampeas
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