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LABOR DAY BRIDGE WALK
Sept. 4-6, Mack. IsId. and Casino
$199
STRATFORD - Oct. 2-3,
2 plays, meals
fr. $235
WASHINGTON D.C./GETTYSBURG
Oct. 14-18, Tours, meals, show
$554
SHIPSHEWANA - Sept. 28-29
Flea market, meals, tour, play,
$179
BRANSON - Sept. 29-Oct. 5; Oct. 6-11
6 to 9 shows, meals, tours
fr. $599
CAPE COD/WHALE WATCH - Oct. 3-9
Martha's Vineyard, meals, tours,
$689
VERMONT, MAINE & NEW HAMPSHIRE
Oct. 1-8, Hotels, meals, tours
$849
AGAWA CANYON COLOR TRAIN
Oct. 6-8, Soo Lock Cruise,
gambling, meals
$312
NASHVILLE - Oct. 7-10,
Grand Ole Opry, cruise, meals
$329
SHAW FESTIVAL - Oct. 9-10
2 plays, meals
$249
SMOKY MOUNTAINS - Oct. 10-14
Dollywood, shows, tours, meals
$499
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Charleston, Atlanta and Cincinnati)
Oct. 17-23, Hotels, tours, meals
$749

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f you cut Alaska in half, Texas
would still be our third largest
state. Within Alaska's borders
would fit 73 Israels.
Its northern lights, Eskimo villages,
Iditarod sled dog races, Ice Age glacial
peaks, Kodiak bears and famous salmon
runs attract people from around the
world. It is here that moose wander
into the back yards and caribou out-
number the people.
Alaska is the bargain that Secretary
of State William Seward brokered from
the Russians for $7.2 million, which
Congress thought was "folly" at the
time. Some called it "Seward's Icebox."
During the transfer ceremony on
Oct. 9, 1867, it was a young U.S. sol-
dier named Benjamin Levi who lowered
the Russian flag and raised the first
American flag in the former Alaskan
territorial capital of Sitka.
Before Alaska became the 49th state in
1959, Jews had played a role in its history
since sailing with Vitus Bering's 1741
expedition to chart Alaska's waters for
Peter the Great. Jews were represented
among the fur traders, Klondike gold

prospectors, steamboat shippers and
adventurers, all attracted to Alaska's great
expanse and frontier opportunity.
Among the early Jewish settlers were
pioneers like Sol Ripinsky, a Polish-born
teacher, postmaster, trading post owner,
lawyer, notary, delegate to the 1907 con-
vention for Alaskan territorial status and
one-time owner of the townsite of
Haines. He is one of three Jews who have
Alaskan mountains named after them.
Leopold David, a German Jew who
arrived in Alaska with the U.S. Army
and remained in the territory to serve as
a U.S. marshal, went on to become the
first mayor of Anchorage in 1920.
Zack Loussac, who fled czarist Russia
at the turn of the 20th century, served
as mayor of Anchorage from 1948-
1951. He also opened the first drug
store in Anchorage and established the
city's first public library.
Ernest Gruening, a New York physi-
cian, served as Alaska's appointed gover-
nor from 1939-1953 and was later elected
one of Alaska's first two senators.
Today, there are approximately 3,200
Jews living in Alaska, less than 1 per-
cent of the total population of 550,000.
They have to work at being Jewish.
Roughly half of them reside in