Alaska

Two US soldiers wounded in bear attack during training exercise in Alaska

Anchorage Daily News reported that the soldiers were from the 11th Airborne Division, and that the exercise had been a "land navigation training event" near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

BROWN BEAR 480, known as "Otis", stands in a river hunting for salmon to fatten up before hibernation at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, US September 16, 2021.
Photo of Alaska.

Inside the Alaskan village where nature, faith, and community come together

 Seismic waves are seen on a screen during a demonstration of an earthquake early warning system which triggers sirens if a nationwide network of 120 seismic monitoring stations detects a strong earthquake, at the Geological Survey of Israel in Jerusalem.

Earthquakes strike Alaska, Greece, monitors say

Researchers drilling into the permafrost.

Ancient microbes from Alaska permafrost awaken after 40,000 years


Even in Alaska, a tiny Jewish community can make its voice heard

"I used to think that everyone had their bar or bat mitzvah during the summer, because in Alaska, anyway, that was the best time to invite relatives."

An aerial view of Anchorage, Alaska.

Anchorage mayor defends anti-maskers who wore yellow Stars of David

The mayor of Alaska’s largest city defended anti-maskers who wore yellow Stars of David in reference to the Holocaust, calling their use of the Nazi-era symbol a “credit” to the Jewish people.

People attend a march in New York against antisemitism wearing yellow stars which read never again, January 5, 2020.

Alaskan Republican compares Biden to Hitler in tweet

Representative David Eastman compared a quote from a speech of Joe Biden's to one of Adolf Hitler's, causing backlash from his fellow representatives.

An aerial view of Anchorage, Alaska.

Hundreds attend Jewish solidarity march in Alaska

The solidarity march protesting a recent antisemitic event in Alaska was combined with a dedication ceremony for a new Torah scroll belonging to the campus Chabad.

The Torah scroll dedication in Anchorage, Alaska.

Is Tokyo Olympics gold-medal swimmer Lydia Jacoby Jewish?

Jacoby’s underdog status, as the first-ever Olympic swimmer from Alaska, which has just one Olympic-sized pool, meant that Jewish viewers may have wondered for the first time: Is Lydia Jacoby Jewish?

okyo 2020 Olympics - Triathlon - Men's Olympic Distance - Final - Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo, Japan – July 26, 2021. Athletes start.

Fossil find adds to evidence of dinosaurs living in Arctic year-round

The find helps upend past assumptions of dinosaurs as giant cold-blooded reptiles.

THE AGE of dinosaur bones: Not a scientific delusion.

Swastika stickers reading: 'We are everywhere' found around Anchorage

The one's located at the Jewish museum was later in the evening, at 5 p.m. on the same day. Some 30 blocks from one another.

An aerial view of Anchorage, Alaska.

Alternate History: Zion by the shores of Alaska

While the stories in Alternate History are conjectural, they may have some basis in fact and this is the case in The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a 2007 novel by Michael Chabon.

President Chaim Weizmann with Nahum Goldman at the Weizmann residence in Rehovot in 1951

Five killed, one hurt as helicopter crashes at Alaska glacier

Among those killed was billionare Petr Kellner, the Czech Republic's richest man, his financial group PPF said on Monday.

People run after collecting food aid from a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) helicopter in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda village, near Beira, Mozambique, March 26, 2019.

Trump vows to campaign against Alaska's Republican Senator Murkowski

Decision motivated by Murkowski's support of Rep. Deb Haaland for interior secretary.

Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, US February 28, 2021.