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September 11 • 2008

small Israeli flag propped up
on a window frame. A Pat
Buchanan button sported
briefly as a courtesy. A prospective
son-in-law with a biblical name.
Little about the Frozen North is
Jewish outside the realm of fiction
(see Mordechai Richler, Michael
Chabon, Northern Exposure), so when
Republicans pitch Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin, John McCain's vice presidential
pick, to the Jews and Democrats try
to undermine her, both sides tend to
reach.
Picking through the trivia and
smears for substance, there's this:
Palin, 44, has genuinely warm relations
with her Jewish constituents — 6,000
or so — and appears to have a fond-
ness for Israel. She also comes down
on the strongly conservative side on
social issues where Jews tend to trend
liberal.
"Governor Palm has established
a great relationship with the Jewish
community over the years and has
attended several of our Jewish cultural
gala events;' Rabbi Yosef Greenberg,

the director of Chabad-Lubavitch in
Anchorage, wrote in an e-mail after
McCain, the presumptive GOP nomi-
nee and longtime Arizona senator,
announced last week that she was
joining his ticket.
"Governor Palin also had plans to
visit Israel with members of the Jewish
community; however, for technical
reasons, the visit has not occurred yet."
Palin is likeable enough that she
got props from Ethan Berkowitz, the
Jewish former minority leader in the
Alaska House of Representatives who
appears poised to become the first
Democrat to represent Alaska in the
U.S. House of Representatives since
Nick Begich disappeared in a snow-
storm in 1972.
"I like her and this is an exciting day
for Alaska," Berkowitz said.

Israel Support
Republicans have been scouring the
archives to uncover evidence of Palin's
outreach to Jews and to Israel. Her
single substantive act is signing a
resolution in June marking 60 years
of Alaska-Israel relations, launched
improbably in 1948 when Alaska

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