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


Alaska lawmaker apologizes after likening pandemic regulations to Nazis

A Republican state lawmaker in Alaska said he did not mean to offend people when he compared restrictions aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic to measures imposed by the Nazis.

NUREMBERG LAWS racial identification chart (Wikimedia Commons)

Lawmaker says Hitler not supremacist, compares COVID-19 rule to Holocaust

'People want to say Hitler was a white supremacist. No. He was fearful of the Jewish nation, and that drove him into some unfathomable atrocities.'

Protests during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Huntington Beach, California

Bomb threat made against China flights from major cargo hub airport

Anchorage Airport is one of the world’s top five air-cargo hubs. It ranks second in the nation for weight of landed cargo.

Empty RavnAir ticket counters are seen after the airlines declared bankruptcy, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, U.S., April 7, 2020.

Alaska school district removes ‘Catch 22’ from curriculum

Teachers will no longer be able to teach ‘The Great Gatsby,’ 'Catch 22' and other important works in their classrooms.

Catch-22

'Weird,' sharp-nosed thalattosaur species identified from Alaska fossil

It's fossil was uncovered through a stroke of luck, when an extremely low tide in 2011 exposed the typically submerged rock where it was embedded on an island beach

Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentinian Patagonia. Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska.

Woman dies while trying to reach ‘Into the Wild’ bus in Alaska

"Ms. Maikamava apparently lost her footing and her grip on the rope," he said in an email

Mount Denali in Alaska

Dermer travels secretly to Alaska for mysterious trip - report

According to the report, the visit was concerning an issue “at the core of the US-Israel security relationship” and has to deal with cooperation regarding the threat from Iran.

Ron Dermer

Political detox in the American Sabbath

Arguably, Judaism’S greatest contribution to world culture is the Sabbath, the idea of cessation of labor and weekly rest that has been adopted by every nation and ethnicity on earth.

IS THERE A place we can go where people aren’t immediately factionalized and where humanity can breathe free without first choosing a partisan affiliation?

A Window to the World: Jews and sled dogs

The famous Iditarod race in Alaska raises ethical questions.

Dogs plow through the snow at the Iditarod race in Anchorage

Blair Braverman second Jewish woman to complete Iditarod

Set in Alaska, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome.

Matt Hall gets his team ready at the ceremonial start of the Iditarod dog sled race in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., March 2, 2019.