Alaska’s Jewish Community Speaks out on Palin Selection
The Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Alaska, Rabbi Yossi Greenberg, said that Alaka’s Governor Sarah Pelin has “established a great relationship with the Jewish community over recent years, and has attended several of our Jewish cultural gala events,” he told lubavitch.com
Palin has shown solidarity with Israel by signing a State of Alaska Resolution recognizing Israel’s 60th Anniversary and its relationship with Alaska. In the resolution, Governor Palin pointed to Alaska’s special connection to Israel dating back to Alaska Airlines’ participation in the rescue of 40,000 Yemenite Jews when it airlifted them from Yemen to Tel Aviv during 1948 and 1949.
In a special interview with shturem.net Greenberg was asked about the rumors that she had supported Pat Buchanan in the past, Greenberg said, “I heard about it now for the first time. It happened many years ago when she was mayor, she was very young and a newcomer to politics, people change, and knowing her, if it is true, she did it not because she was attracted to his anti-Semitc or anti-Israel views but to the positive elements in Buchanan’s outlook. “I can tell you this, from the time she became governor she has always supported the Jewish community and Israel and even sponsored a bill on behalf of Israel. She always comes to our events and she is really a very amazing woman.