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Factor in that by migrating here from the Lower 48, most Alaskan Jews have severed their ties to large urban Jewish com- munities and extended families, and conventional wisdom dic- tates that the state's Jewry will be totally assimilated and all but disappear in a couple of genera- tions. Not so, according to the Bran- T I Phone Zip West Bloomfield Orchard Mall 6337 Orchard Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 (313) 855-9955 Troy Troy Commons 871 E. Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48237 528-9966 deis scholar. For one, in more cas- es than not, "the non-Jewish Tom Tugend is a free-lance writer based in. Los Angeles. partner acquiesces to being Jew- ish, so actually we're gaining there," he says. Professor Reisman's analysis, based on in-depth questionnaires sent to 1,050 Alaskan Jews and augmented by personal and phone interviews, yields an even more surprising finding. "By every measure of Jewish identity used in the U.S. National Jewish Population Survey — synagogue attendance, home rit- ual, visits to Israel, etc. — Alaskan Jews score higher than Jews in the Lower 48 [continen- tal United States]," he says. To explain the seeming para- dox, Professor Reisman specu- lates that when Jews migrate to the Last Frontier, they experi- ence an often unacknowledged sense of loneliness. They seek surrogate ties for extended fam- ilies left behind and ultimately discover that their Jewishness is more important to them than they had thought. The Brandeis academic also found that the largest group of Alaskan Jews originated from the northeastern states, espe- cially New York and New Jersey. The second largest contingent came from the Los Angeles area, in a two-step process. "The Angelenos first moved to northwestern cities, like Seat- tle and Olympia," says Professor Reisman. "When they felt that these cities were becoming too crowded and life too intense, they moved on to Alaska." To pull together the state's scattered Jews, Professor Reis- man and resident Jewish lead- CHOSEN page 54