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Three candidates advance in ranked choice primary for Alaska's at-large district
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Three candidates advanced to Alaska’s general election to represent the state’s at-large congressional district on Tuesday, according to a call by the Associated Press.
Alaska has a non-partisan, ranked-choice primary system that selects the four candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, to proceed to the general election.
Tuesday’s primary saw 12 candidates vying for a position in the top four, including incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Ala., who advanced to the general election with 50.7% of the vote.
Republican Nick Begich, who ran for the seat against Peltola in 2022, finished in 2nd place with 26.8%.
Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who was endorsed by former President Trump, was the number three candidate with 19.9% of the votes in the Last Frontier primary.
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Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, is shown before a debate for Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat on Oct. 26, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
The Associated Press didn’t make a call on the fourth-place finisher. None of the remaining candidates broke the 1% mark.
The race also saw David Ambrose, Samuel Claesson, Lady Donna Dutchess, Richard Grayson, Eric Hafner, Gerald Heikes, John Wayne Howe, Richard Mayers, and Matthew Salisbury vying for the seat.
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San Francisco, CA
Voters gather to watch Day 3 of the DNC at Manny’s in San Francisco
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Denver, CO
36 Hours in Denver
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9 a.m. Play and relax at the city’s biggest lake
Grab a North Carolina-style biscuit of the day (in flavors like feta-oregano or graham cracker, from about $2) at the brick-walled Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, tucked away on a north Denver side street, then walk a few blocks to Sloan’s Lake Park. Stroll the 2.6-mile loop around the park’s fist-shaped lake, Denver’s biggest, sharing the path with runners, wanderers, and the occasional bike or scooter, taking in the view of the sometimes snow-capped Rockies to the west and the city skyline to the east.
12 p.m. Try local-favorite restaurants in tiny Edgewater
Stroll into Edgewater, a city of 5,000 just west of the park, to Edgewater Public Market, one of many upscale food halls that have recently popped up in the metro area, with a satisfyingly diverse collection of booths selling everything from empanadas to elk burgers, with ample picnic-table space and a central bar. Get a refreshing pick-me-up at the bowl-and-smoothie outpost Saints or Sinners? or something more substantial at the Ethiopian specialist Konjo (a vegan tray includes yellow cabbage, red lentils and three rolls of injera flatbread, $14). A few blocks north are several local-favorite eateries, including US Thai Cafe, one of the best restaurants in town for classic dishes like pad thai ($11.25) and vegetable egg rolls ($6.50), served in a cramped-but-comfortable room.
2 p.m. Chill with coffee (and cats) on Tennyson Street
Farther north, explore eclectic shops and cafes on and around the fast-developing Tennyson Street in the Berkeley neighborhood. Pop into the locally owned Inspyre Boutique, which screams “stylish cowgirl” with fedoras in earthy tones and an extravaganza of denim, and the new-and-used outdoor-clothing-and-gear specialist Feral. Pass an hour meditatively scratching tiny ears at the Denver Cat Company ($15 entry, discounts for kids, reservations recommended), run by Denver Cat Rescue, then stop by the Historic Elitch Theater, where both Douglas Fairbanks and Grace Kelly performed before they were movie stars. Preservationists have maintained the blue, 1890s-era building, showing movies and, occasionally, plays and giving tours in the summer. Then relax at Convivio Cafe, opened in 2022, with a chocolatado ($5), an espresso drink packed with chocolate crumbles, befitting the co-owner Vivi Lemus’s Guatemalan heritage.
6 p.m. Go Australian, American Indian or Italian for dinner
Stick to northwest Denver, where dinner options abound. Two Hands, an Australian brunch-and-dinner spot in a recently reborn plaza at Tennyson and 41st, serves fresh and healthy bowls, like one with salmon and quinoa ($25), as well as a macadamia-nut-pesto cavatelli ($21). Note: The lively dining room can border on loud. Not far away, Tocabe will satisfyingly stuff you with American Indian classics like fry bread filled with meat, beans, cheese and housemade salsas ($11 to $16.50). Or return to Sloan’s Lake Park for Gusto, a sleek new Italian restaurant on the first floor of a condo building, with tall windows overlooking the lake. The pizza-and-pasta-heavy menu has delightful flashes of fruit: The summer harvest salad ($14) is juicy with peaches from Palisade, the western Colorado town known as a fruit paradise, and lemon confit is the star ingredient in the Amalfi pie ($19).
8 p.m. Fill your night with sound and color
Go back in time with a concert at the 97-year-old Oriental Theater, with an old-school marquee, in Berkeley (tickets from $10 to $500). It’s one of Denver’s many classic theaters, including the 1930s-era Mayan on South Broadway and the 1920s-era Gothic in suburban Englewood. Or enter a strange future at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station, a trippy, 95,000-square-foot immersive-art museum that opened southwest of downtown in 2021. It’s a mesmerizing place to spend a few hours, especially with kids, interacting with Seussian animal mutations and pastel-colored laundry machines, opening endless doors to rooms with so many LED and neon lights that adults may need to recover in the on-site bar afterward. Tickets from $50. It also contains a concert venue, the Perplexiplex. Best to Uber or Lyft; the nearby parking lots fill up quickly because of their proximity to Empower Field at Mile High, home of the Denver Broncos.
Seattle, WA
Seattle Jews to remount an antisemitism exhibit alone, after staff shut it down for Zionism
After dozens of staffers at a Seattle museum walked off the job to protest an exhibit on antisemitism they claimed was “Zionist,” area Jewish groups and the museum all pledged that the exhibit would find a new home.
Months later, the Jewish groups are still planning to mount a version of the exhibit, called “Confronting Hate Together.” But they will do so without their original partners, the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and a museum dedicated to Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage. Instead, the Jewish groups say the exhibit will be housed in a Jewish space.
The groups cited “circumstances out of our control” and said that the experience had left local Jews feeling isolated at a time of great need.
“Immense harm has been caused to the Jewish community by not being able to show the exhibit,” the Washington State Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Seattle said in a joint statement. “Antisemitism today is at its highest levels in over 40 years, and more allyship is needed to help meet the moment.”
The statement summarized a feeling that Jews in many quarters have expressed over the last 10 months, since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered an ongoing war that has induced tensions in countless museums, universities, cultural centers and workplaces. Many Jews have lamented not feeling the support they say they have shown to people from other backgrounds in the past.
“We need partners who are stakeholders in the safety and well-being of the Jewish people and who stand with us even when it gets hard,” the Jewish groups said. “Ironically, in an exhibit that was supposed to be about coming together to confront hate, hate has won. And, our community feels more alone as a result.”
Crafting the exhibit
The Jewish Historical Society had spent 18 months crafting the exhibit alongside the Black Heritage Society and Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. Modeled after a World War II-era American Jewish Committee anti-hate campaign, the exhibit first opened at the Wing Luke in late May and included descriptions of how all three ethnic communities have experienced hate over the years.
But controversy quickly engulfed the project when 26 Wing Luke staffers walked off the job days later, claiming the parts of the exhibit that were focused on antisemitism contained material that “conveyed Zionist perspectives.” The museum promptly closed altogether, and the staff, declaring themselves “on strike,” launched a GoFundMe that has raised more than $11,000 to date.
Museum leaders announced the exhibit would be reconfigured and presented to the public at a different venue later in the summer. The Wing Luke’s executive director, Joël Barraquiel Tan, in a piece for the Seattle Times, shared what he said were “lessons learned” from the efforts to restage the exhibit, including, “Our best work happens when we offer platforms for complex dialogue and vulnerability to inspire civility, grace and understanding across differences.”
The reason the Jewish groups decided to go their own way stemmed from challenges surrounding the search for a new venue, the Jewish Historical Society’s director, Lisa Kranseler, indicated to the Cholent, an independent newsletter covering Jewish Seattle.
But the ultimate decision to pull back was the Jewish groups’, a representative for the Wing Luke Museum told the Cholent. “We are naturally disappointed that the Jewish Historical Society felt they needed to do that,” the spokesperson said.
A spokesperson for the Seattle JCRC did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In its own statement, the Black Heritage Society seemed to take issue with the Jewish groups’ narrative of events, noting their statement “questions our allyship and tenacity for when times get tough.”
“We have been good and tolerant partners,” the society’s president, Stephanie Johnson-Toliver, wrote. Johnson-Toliver concluded by thanking the Wing Luke museum and “the writers, editors, interns, consulting staff, and funders whose contributions have been great,” but did not mention the Jewish groups by name. (Asked for comment, the society directed JTA to the statement.)
In their objections to the original exhibit, the Wing Luke’s staff contingent, WLM4Palestine, cited portions that read “Today, antisemitism is often disguised as anti-Zionism” and spotlighted campus protests and the phrase “from the river to the sea.” Such passages, the staff allege on their GoFundMe page, “attempt to frame Palestinian liberation and anti-Zionism as antisemitism.”
On Instagram, they further alleged that the exhibit “sets a dangerous precedent of platforming colonial, white supremacist perspectives and goes against the Museum’s mission as a community-based museum advancing racial and social equity.”
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat argued that the staffers’ anger was misplaced, and had the effect of abandoning Jews.
“What the exhibit is saying is, don’t take your anger about the Middle East conflict out on local Jews, who are independent, freethinking humans,” he wrote. “For a highly fraught subject, this is pretty basic stuff.”
While decrying the staff response as “fueled” by “anti-Jewish ideas and attitudes,” the Jewish groups added that they had made “adjustments and modifications” to the exhibit following the walkout. They said this was done “to help people better understand the exhibit by clarifying language regarding the exhibition’s intent to focus on confronting hate locally by three historically redlined communities.”
A digital version of the exhibit with the original partners listed, including content focused on the Black and Asian-American experiences, is viewable on the Jewish Historical Society’s website. An accompanying podcast, released shortly after the museum staff walkout and featuring guests including the mayor of Seattle, is also still accessible.
Kranseler told JTA that the Jewish Historical Society was “still working with our partners on two additional panels that will explain the genesis of our collaboration on this exhibit and provide additional information regarding the history of our three communities working together.”
The digital version still includes language the Wing Luke staff had walked out over, such as the declaration that “Today antisemitism is often disguised as anti-Zionism.”
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