President Reagan lights one of five candles during Chanukah celebrations at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and says that Chanukah is “symbdic of the Jewish struggle to resist submission to tyranny and to sustain its spiritual heritage.”
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denies a posthumous pardon to Leo Frank, the Jewish factory superintendent who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old girl, Mary Phagen, in Atlanta in 1913 and who was lynched two years later by a mob in one of the nations worst outbursts of anti-Semitism.
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