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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1990

ewish mothers,
grandmothers and
doting aunts who have
been despairing that the eli-
gible bachelors in their fami-
ly would never meet "Ms.
Right" can now take heart.
Susie Carter, editor and co-
publisher with her husband,
Dave, of the magazine
AlaskaMen USA, is about to
do for Jewish men what
she's been doing for the men
of Alaska. She's been tour-
ing the lower 48 states to
make contacts and is about
to start her newest idea,
JewishMen, "a magazine for
women."
"Tell all the Jewish
mothers to send me their
sons, and we'll get them
married," Ms. Carter said in
a recent Boston interview.
"We've test-marketed Jew-
ishMen in a previous issue
and it turned out to be the
most popular edition of all
our magazines. We were told
by a California market
research firm's entertain-
ment attorney that of all the
magazines we're producing,
JewishMen will be the most
popular, lucrative and fast-
selling of them all."
Ms. Carter said the idea
for JewishMen came about
because "I started getting
letters from Jewish mothers
asking me to help them, tell-
ing me they had either a son
or daughter who couldn't
find anyone their age of the
Jewish faith. They were all
saying, 'Please help me.' So I
realized there was a need for
that in JewishMen.
"I'm really not a mat-
chmaker," she claimed.
"The magazine is targeted
toward women. We're look-
ing for women with a
natural, motherly instinct
who would like to help us.
We're not waiting for the
men to help us, but what
we're doing is based on wo-
men helping each other.
We're networking with wo-
men throughout the entire
world to find eligible men
through our magazine."
The latest issue of the 3-
year-old AlaskaMen USA
publication features 98
pages, complete with a
centerfold, descriptive
biographies and photos of at-

Gladys Damon is a writer for
the Jewish Advocate of Boston,
where this article first ap-
peared.

A preview
of paradise:
ISLAND
MEN

PALMER,
ALASKA
A colony of
pioneers

The publisher of AlaskaMen will soon be publishing a new magazine
targeted to Jewish women.

tractive men in action shots.
Many are fishing, hunting or
sailing against the pictures-
que Alaskan background.
The men tell what they are
seeking in a female compa-
nion. Although most do not
articulate marriage as their
ultimate objective, they tend
toward serious companion-
ship and deeper relation-
ships.
While the magazine is
"heimish," or homey, Ms.
Carter doesn't accept just
anybody. A female friend or
relative has to submit the
candidate's name to Carter
and then a questionnaire
must be filled out. Finally,
the man must give his per-
mission to be published in
the glossy, illustrated maga-
zine. The staff writes the
descriptive material.
Although Ms. Carter and
her family are Mormons, she
discovered during a three-
year residence in Berlin that
she has Jewish roots
through two of her great-
grandmothers, Mary Jean
Eckstein and Susan Maria
Gould, and that one great-
grandfather, Aaron Gould,
had married a Native
American named Oshtar,

"which is spelled almost like
Esther. Our children know
all about their Jewish
ancestry. We don't keep it
under wraps — no way!"
Ms. Carter, who ran a day-
care center for 25 years in
California before relocating
to Anchorage several years
ago, has nine children from
her two marriages. Her
maternal instincts have led
her to extend her efforts to
the larger world. Last
winter, she visited the
Soviet Union under the
auspices of the Foundation
for Social Innovation, where
she was "the U.S. represent-
ative for matchmaking."
"We were offered all kinds
of joint ventures. We were
even asked to do a new
Soviet magazine like
AlaskaMen USA, to be
published both in the U.S.
and USSR. We have an
agent over there who's send-
ing us information about the
men who are very anxious to
get married."
In Los Angeles, Ms. Carter
met with the heads of area
Hadassah chapters and the
United Jewish Federation,
who reacted enthusiastically
to her proposal for the new