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Editor’s notes: Why they attack the ADL – The Jerusalem Post

In August 2020, a coalition of 100 progressive organizations launched a campaign under the hashtag #DropTheADL.

We are writing to ask you to reconsider the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a partner in social justice work, the groups wrote in an open letter titled, The ADL is not an ally.

The American Jewish civil rights group and antisemitism watchdog, they alleged, has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence. More disturbing, it has often conducted those attacks under the banner of civil rights.

This largely unpublicized history has come increasingly to light as activists work to make sense of the ADLs role in condemning the Movement for Black Lives, Palestinian rights organizing, and Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, among others, the groups charged.

Notably, many of the coalition members which included such groups as American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Movement for Black Lives have been repeatedly accused of antisemitism, and several have been listed by the United Arab Emirates as terrorist organizations due to their ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist offshoot, Hamas.

At the time, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that the #DropTheADL campaign uses innuendo and untruths to libel our organization and assert that we somehow are not a civil rights organization.

An obvious falsehood, one disproved by more than a century of activism, he noted.

Fast forward three years, to this past week.

Elon Musk arguably one of the most visible and influential people in the world has been amplifying a campaign by far-right figures and groups to have the ADL removed from the social media platform he owns, while engaging in his own obsessive tirade against the group.

Musk has long had what might be described as a vendetta against the ADL, which appears to stem from its criticism of his decision to reinstate former President Donald Trumps account on Twitter, now known as X. His tone has alternated between the playful and the ominous, but the overall thrust has been that the ADL is stifling free speech and engaging in defamation of its own.

When Musk compared Jewish billionaire and left-wing donor George Soros to a comic book villain and wrote that he wants to erode the very fabric of civilization and hates humanity in May of this year, Greenblatt accused him of emboldening extremists who engage in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

ADL should just drop the A, Musk responded.

Last Tuesday, Greenblatt met with X CEO Linda Yaccarino to discuss the ADLs concerns about hate speech on the platform. I appreciated her reaching out and Im hopeful the service will improve, he tweeted the next day. ADL will be vigilant and give her and Elon Musk credit if the service gets better... and reserve the right to call them out until it does.

Within hours, the hashtag #BanTheADL appeared on the platform and was swiftly circulated by an assortment of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. By the next day, it had become the top trending topic on the platform.

Rather than shutting down the conversation, Musk amplified it.

The ADLs favorite tactic is financially blackmailing social media companies into removing free speech on their platforms, tweeted Keith Woods, an Irish white nationalist who has described himself as a raging antisemite. Why should they have a platform on X to hold Elon Musk to ransom? Its time to #BanTheADL.

Musk expressed his approval for Woods sentiment by liking the tweet, and then went on to share a tweet by another activist lauding the #BanTheADL campaign.

Perhaps we should run a poll on this? Musk wrote last Saturday.

In the days since, as the platform has been flooded with tweets bearing grossly antisemitic messaging and the hashtag #BanTheADL, Musk has been sharing articles attacking the ADL from both the right and the left and liking videos mocking its approach to combating hate speech online.

On Tuesday, he threatened legal action.

To clear our platforms name on the matter of antisemitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, he tweeted. Oh, the irony!

Between #BanTheADL and #DropTheADL, the organization is under assault from both the far right and the hard left. The question is why and why now.

As one of the oldest anti-hate groups in America and one of the most prominent Jewish organizations in the world, the ADL has long been at the forefront of efforts to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate, as well as defending Jews and other minority groups across the globe. Founded in 1913, after the contentious and wrongful conviction of Jewish factory superintendent Leo Frank in the murder of one of his Christian employees, the ADL has positioned itself as a leader in efforts against purveyors of hate and intolerance in America, from Henry Ford to Kanye West.

For decades, the ADL was synonymous with its longtime director, Abe Foxman, a fiery orator and vocal advocate. In 2015, Foxman stepped down and was replaced by Jonathan Greenblatt, a successful entrepreneur and business executive who had previously served in the Clinton and Obama administrations.

While some have charged that the organization has veered to the left in recent years Musk said this week that it had been hijacked by [a] woke mind virus others accuse it of being unduly protective of Israel and critical of its detractors under the guise of civil rights.

The truth is that the ADLs identification with the Jewish community and its tendency to shed light on uncomfortable truths make the organization an easy mark for those looking to attack Jews but wary of saying so out loud.

This isnt actually about the ADL, Greenblatt told me this week. As often is the case, were simply a stand-in for the Jews or the Zionists.

This is not about banning the ADL, per se though trying to disempower and disarm ADL in this moment of surging antisemitism is deliberate and evil its really about banning the Jews ability to defend themselves and trying to make all of us cower, to intimidate us, to make us afraid, he said.

Hes right.

That the attacks on the ADL are coming from both the far right and hard left perfectly illustrates the bipolar nature of contemporary antisemitism. Long considered the province of the extreme right, Jew hatred today is also rampant in many corners of the progressive left, where Israel and Zionism are scorned with unparalleled fervor. As perhaps the most visible Jewish organization in America, and one that is both unabashed and effective in its advocacy for the Jewish community, the ADL serves as a convenient target for the fire currently being unleashed on it from both extremes of the political map.

The ADL is a totem, a symbol. Just as, to antisemites, Israel is the Jew in national form and George Soros and the late Sheldon Adelson are the embodiment of the Jew in human form, the ADL is the Jew in organizational form too powerful, too loud, too unwilling to take their abuse lying down.

While no organization is perfect and the ADL has made its share of missteps over the years, the fact that it is being targeted by two parallel campaigns, from the two primary sources of modern-day antisemitism, that share the same goal of silencing and marginalizing it should be the greatest indication that the organization is doing something right.

They attack the ADL because, in their eyes, the ADL represents the Jews. And that should give us every reason we need to support it.

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OPINION: Holocaust survivor’s message is a call to action for us all – The Atlanta Journal Constitution

A few days before 95-year-old Esther Basch, the Honey Girl of Auschwitz, came to town to share her story as a Holocaust survivor, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta received a bomb threat.

The federations building in Midtown was evacuated. After a two-hour investigation, police determined the bomb threat was a hoax.

This incident took place the day before the 108th anniversary of the killing of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched in Marietta by an antisemitic mob.

That anniversary had barely passed before antisemitic flyers, stuffed in plastic bags, were distributed throughout the Cobb County city. Similar incidents had previously occurred in Kennesaw and Acworth, according to news reports.

This was the environment that awaited Basch and her daughter, Rachel Turet, both of whom live in Arizona. They have been touring the country nonstop for the past year to share Baschs message of love how she has managed to forgive the Nazis who imprisoned her and murdered her father and countless others. She came at a time when some people seem intent on fomenting hate.

Last year in the U.S., antisemitic incidents climbed to the highest level in more than four decades, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Incidents increased by 36% over the previous year.

In May, the Biden Administration released the first U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. Meanwhile, in Georgia, where incidents increased 63% over the previous year, state lawmakers in the last legislative session failed to bring to a vote a bill that would have defined antisemitism and included it in the states hate crime law. The change would allow for harsher criminal penalties when Jewish people are targeted in crimes.

Jewish institutions in some cities, including Atlanta, have turned to community-based programs under the direction of Secure Community Network, a nationwide tracking system that helps assess threats and set up protocols.

I appreciate and admire Baschs ability to forgive people who committed unspeakable horrors. But, when we spoke by phone, I was angry and disgusted about the inability of our leaders to address acts of hatred with consequences that might actually serve as a deterrent. I am self-aware enough to know that I have no compassion for perpetrators of hate speech and hate crimes. I wanted to understand Baschs journey to forgiveness.

Antisemitism is growing, a cause of concern for everyone who knows history, she said. It makes me feel very, very sad.

Basch began publicly sharing her story of being held in a Nazi concentration camp after meeting one of the American soldiers who liberated the camp.

When I speak, it feels like a burden is off my shoulders, she said before an event held at Congregation Beth Tefillah in Sandy Springs. I dont remember what I had for breakfast, but I remember every second of my past.

On Baschs 16th birthday, she and her mother were sent to Auschwitz. When they were pulled from their lives, her mother was still carrying the eggs that she planned to use to bake a cake for her.

Basch, who grew up in Czechoslovakia, would later learn her father, a rabbi, was sent directly to his death. It was her father, she said, who taught her to love people, regardless of their race or religion, and to use positive thinking to lead a happy life.

She said miracles kept her alive during her time in Auschwitz and at the labor camps, where she was held for more than nine months before U.S. soldiers liberated prisoners.

When the soldiers invited them to collect whatever they wanted from town, Basch found a jar of honey and used her fingers to lift its sweetness into her mouth. Eating the honey made her so ill that she had to stay in the infirmary for a month to regain her health, earning her the moniker the Honey Girl of Auschwitz.

Survivor accounts like Baschs are increasingly important as the history of the Holocaust fades in our collective memory. Rabbi Ari Sollish, director of the Torah Center ATL, said hearing stories from people like Basch people who have maintained a positive outlook on life can serve as inspiration for us all, particularly those who are young.

The point is not to bring everyone back 80 years, he said. It is about education and positivity and love and sensitivity and how we should be there for each other.

We have seen recent examples of this in the outpouring of support for members of the Jewish community when acts of hatred have occurred in metro Atlanta, Macon and other parts of Georgia.

Basch said she has felt that same kind of support from the people she has met during speaking engagements the neo-Nazi who begged her forgiveness, the children who promise to never forget and the adults who find her forgiveness contagious enough to make changes in their own lives.

If I dont forgive, if I hold a grudge, I only hurt myself, Basch said. I cannot forget the horrors they put me through, but I can forgive.

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Holocaust survivor faces torrent of online abuse on Elon Musk’s X … – Ynetnews

Lucy Lipiner is no stranger to antisemitism. A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, she was forced to live through one of the worst atrocities to ever take place in human history. Yet her lived experience still hasnt prevented the torrent of antisemitic abuse that she, and all Jewish people, currently are experiencing on social media in particular on Elon Musks X (formerly known as Twitter). This week was no exception.

Lipiner, who boasts just under 30,000 followers on the platform, says she regularly uses social media to engage and push back against the rising antisemitism that she is seeing.

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Holocaust survivor Lucy Lipiner regularly uses social media to call out Holocaust denial and revisionism

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I was appalled at the rise in antisemitism that seemed more blatant less hidden than in the past and more like what we had seen before the war in Europe. I felt, as a survivor, compelled to speak up, she told Ynet.

And she has definitely spoken up. Lipiner regularly uses social media to call out Holocaust denial and revisionism, using her own personal story from Nazi-occupied Poland, as well as her own collection of family photos from the Holocaust, to share the truth.

From taking on former UFC fighter Jake Shields for spreading antisemitic conspiracies to calling out anti-feminist right-wing pundit Pearl Davis for her antisemitic song, to exposing the antisemitism in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albaneses tweets, Lipiner is extremely active in the conversation on the X platform.

Lipiner considers anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.

I also thought the rise of BDS was simply a veiled form of antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism, which increasingly felt like nothing less than todays version of age-old hatred of Jews, she said.

This week, when she published a post on X about the anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, she was met with a massive onslaught of white supremacist antisemitism in response. The result was a community note a fact-checking tool meant to add context to tweets - which incorrectly stated that Leo Frank, the victim of the lynching, murdered and raped a 13-year-old girl. In fact, Frank was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, in a case that is widely believed to be permeated with blatant antisemitism akin to the Dreyfus affair.

I tweeted about the 108th anniversary of the lynching of an innocent Jewish man Leo Frank who was accused of murder amidst a horrifically antisemitic community environment. His lynchers were never brought to Justice. A community note says it all: antisemitism is still alive and kicking today, she said.

Beyond the community note, the responses to her tweet were also antisemitic. One comment read: Gee its almost like they were kicked out of 109 countries for a reason Another: You don't have to be in colonized Palestine to defend the indefensible, you simply have to be a zionist.

While hundreds pushed back and eventually the X platform removed the community note, the evidence of the antisemitic mob remains. Lipiner said that she routinely receives ugly antisemitic threats and messages in her private messages on social media as well, including users mocking her with Holocaust jokes about gas chambers.

Hate-filled trolls seem to enjoy engaging with me. Mostly they deny the Holocaust ever happened or diminish it, compare it to other events- or a favorite of trolls is to co-opt the term Nazi, using it to describe Israel and its right to defend itself against terror, she said.

In another message, Lipiner shared with Ynet, an X user wrote to tell her that she is not a real Jew and that the Torah says the Jews were and are a black race of people. You're not black so stop spreading lies to the public. We are sick and tired of you stealing our history. Not the real Jews is a phrase most commonly used by Black supremacists including Louis Farrakhans Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrews movement - claiming Black people, and not Jews, are the true chosen people of God.

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Holocaust survivor Lucy Lipiner pushes back against antisemitism on social media

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Yet in the face of such vile conversation, Lipiner isnt backing down; instead, shes doubling down.

The trolls honestly dont bother me. Ive dealt with so much worse, and I guess I must be relevant, she joked. But she is concerned about the level of vitriol on social media, in particular X.

On paper, these platforms may look fair and as if they are searching for the correct balance on the fine line between free speech and hate speech, but in Elon Musks case I think he has shown his true personal feelings and that is influencing what he allows to stand on X, she explained.

Concerns of antisemitism and other forms of cyberbullying have only intensified over the past week, with Musk announcing that he intends to do away with the blocking feature completely.

Despite the challenges, however, Lipiner sees participation in social media as a critical tool.

The role of social media is simple, she said, "to educate, educate, educate. People are reacting to this instantaneous, immediate gratification with less thought than ever before. Slogans carry enormous weight on social media allowing people to latch on to antisemitism and racist attitudes as if its the flavor of the month.

To help push back against the harassment, threats and intimidation, which have become almost expected for a Jewish person on social media today, Lipiner has partnered with the Tel Aviv Institute to help Jewish and non-Jewish influencers combat antisemitism online.

Hen Mazzig, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute told Ynet: We work with over one hundred Jewish online content creators and influencers, but no one has the stamina that Lucy has to fight antisemitism online. Every time she speaks at our signature content creator laboratories the participants are blown away by her courage, tenacity and tireless dedication to speaking truth to power.

Lipiners best advice for those in the fight against antisemitism is to: Have a thick skin, do your research, be as honest as possible, and always work toward a greater good, even if it seems like an impossible dream.

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What protests? Israels tourists are focused on holy sites and nightlife

While hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been flooding the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in protest of the governments passage of a law limiting the Supreme Courts power, summer tourists are mainly shrugging off the political strife around them.

Our Mira Fox just returned from 10 days in the holy land, where she talked to travelers about the best places to eat, the best sites to see and polyamory. Very few spoke of the protests roiling the nation.

Choosing to ignore: I think I saw something on Instagram and decided not to dive in because it was four days before my trip and I didnt want to freak myself out, said Rebecca Rhodes, a track and field coach at the University of Utah who was in Jerusalem to recruit athletes.

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Not interested: Birthright pilgrims are still flooding markets, archaeological sites and bars across the country. As important as it is, its not what people came for at all, Michael Even-Esh, a tour guide, said of the protests. And truthfully except for a basic overview it interests them very little.

Geopolitical naivete: A shopkeeper in the tourist-clogged alleys of Jerusalems Old City told Mira that he gets more worried calls from friends overseas about bombings in Syria, and then has to explain that it is an entirely different country. Americans are sorry not so intelligent, he said. They never know whats going on outside.

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Opinion | Can we please stop talking about Bradley Coopers nose? Many Jews online are upset about the prosthetic nose that Cooper wears in the just-released trailer for Netflixs Leonard Bernstein biopic a proxy for their broader feelings over a non-Jewish actor being cast to play a Jewish cultural icon. Not our Laura E. Adkins. There are very real problems facing the Jewish people, she writes.Israels democracy is on the verge of collapse. Hate speech is out of control on social media. And were talking about a nose? But Lauras deputy, Nora Berman, begs to differ. Read their conversation

Opinion | Will Donald Trump finally face his personal Yom Kippur? Elul, the Jewish month of penitence and reflection, began last night. Trumps latest indictment, enumerating 191 criminal acts of conspiracy, reads to our contributing columnist Rabbi Jay Michaelson like the confessional Al Chet prayer, including its own repetitive refrain. False claims of voter fraud. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, the indictment says. False accusations against election workers. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. Cue Michaelson: Now the Book of Judgment is open, with Trumps alleged misdeeds written out in excruciating detail. Read the essay

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The leading vote-getter in Argentinas national primary elections this week, Javier Milei, could become the countrys first Jewish president. First hed have to win in October and complete a conversion hes working on. Milei, a far-right economist, was raised Catholic but studies with a rabbi regularly. (JTA)

Vandals in Berlin destroyed windows at the offices of a foundation that manages Holocaust memorial sites. This comes after a telephone booth-sized library of free Holocaust books in the city was destroyed in a fire last week. (JTA)

A new artificial intelligence app lets users instant-message with biblical figures like Job, Lot and Ruth. Some of the characters, including the prophet Isaiah and King Solomon, require a $2.99 monthly subscription. (Religion News Service)

Shiva calls Rabbi Chai Yitzchak Twerski, known as the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, died at 92 Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, died at 88 Marc Becker, former chairman of the board at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, died at 51.

A picture of Leo Frank in the memoir of Ab Cahan, the founding editor of the Forward. (Courtesy of YIVO)

On this day in history (1915): Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent, was lynched by a mob in Marietta, Georgia. Frank had been convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan a conviction most historians view as wrongful in a case that launched both the birth of the Anti-Defamation League and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. When the Forwards PJ Grisar met Ben Platt, who played Leo Frank in the Broadway musical Parade, to read Franks letters, Platt was struck by Franks sense of hope in the face of injustice.

In honor of Robert DeNiros birthday, check out our secret Jewish history of the acclaimed actor.

Our senior political reporter, Jacob Kornbluh, talked with me and Laura yesterday about how President Biden is walking a tightrope in his approach to Israel as the presidential election ramps up. Biden hasnt taken any tactical moves to hold the Netanyahu government accountable, Jacob said. It has to do a lot with Bidens genuine love for Israel. Hes famous for saying you dont have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. Watch the episode above, or subscribe to That Jewish News Show wherever you get podcasts.

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Today in History – Record Herald

Today is Thursday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2023. There are 136 days left in the year.

Todays Highlight in History:

On Aug. 17, 1982, the first commercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBAs The Visitors, were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany.

On this date:

In 1807, Robert Fultons North River Steamboat began heading up the Hudson River on its successful round trip between New York and Albany.

In 1863, federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding.

In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, whod maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)

In 1945, the George Orwell novel Animal Farm, an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, was first published in London by Martin Secker & Warburg.

In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris.

In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitlers inner circle, died at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

In 1988, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel (RAY-fehl) were killed in a mysterious plane crash.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he denied previously committing perjury, admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was wrong, and criticized Kenneth Starrs investigation.

In 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey.

In 2004, at the Athens games, Romania won its second straight Olympic gold medal in womens gymnastics; the United States took silver while Russia won the bronze.

In 2011, Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

In 2020, Texas joined New York, New Jersey and California as states with at least 10,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths; about 80 percent of the Texas deaths were reported since June 1, after the state embarked on one of the fastest reopenings in the country.

Ten years ago: The attorney for a young man whod testified he was fondled by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said his client had reached a settlement, the first among dozens of claims made against the school amid the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Nick Davilla threw six touchdown passes and the Arizona Rattlers defeated the Philadelphia Soul 48-39 in the ArenaBowl. Kansas Citys Miguel Tejada was suspended 105 games by Major League Baseball for violating its Joint Drug Program, one of the longest suspensions ever handed down.

Five years ago: President Donald Trump said he had canceled plans for a Veterans Day military parade, citing what he called a ridiculously high price tag; he accused local politicians in Washington of price-gouging. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with The New York Times, said hed been overwhelmed by job stress, an admission that pushed down the stock value of the electric car company and brought pressure on its board to take action; shares in Tesla tumbled about 9 percent.

One year ago: The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shakeup of the organization, saying it failed to meet the moment of COVID-19s arrival and needed to become more nimble. A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27. Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized.

Todays Birthdays: Former MLB All-Star Boog Powell is 82. Actor Robert DeNiro is 80. Movie director Martha Coolidge is 77. Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 76. Actor-screenwriter-producer Julian Fellowes is 74. Actor Robert Joy is 72. International Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 71. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexys Midnight Runners) is 70. Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 68. Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 68. Olympic gold medal figure skater Robin Cousins is 66. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 65. Author Jonathan Franzen is 64. Actor Sean Penn is 63. Jazz musician Everette Harp is 62. Rock musician Gilby Clarke is 61. Singer Maria McKee is 59. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 58. Rock musician Jill Cunniff (kuh-NIHF) is 57. Actor David Conrad is 56. Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 54. College Basketball Hall of Famer and retired NBA All-Star Christian Laettner is 54. Rapper Posdnuos (PAHS-deh-noos) is 54. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 53. Retired MLB All-Star Jorge Posada is 52. TV personality Giuliana Rancic is 49. Actor Bryton James is 37. Actor Brady Corbet (kohr-BAY) is 35. Actor Austin Butler is 32. Actor Taissa Farmiga is 29. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Gracie Gold is 28.

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Mary Phagan

Today in History 8-17-23 (copy) | | duboiscountyherald.com – The Herald

Today is Thursday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2023. There are 136 days left in the year.

Todays Highlight in History:

On Aug. 17, 1982, the first commercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBAs The Visitors, were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany.

On this date:

In 1863, federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding.

In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment.

In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitlers inner circle, died at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he denied previously committing perjury, admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was wrong, and criticized Kenneth Starrs investigation.

In 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey.

In 2004, at the Athens games, Romania won its second straight Olympic gold medal in womens gymnastics; the United States took silver while Russia won the bronze.

In 2011, Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

In 2020, Texas joined New York, New Jersey and California as states with at least 10,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths; about 80% of the Texas deaths were reported since June 1, after the state embarked on one of the fastest reopenings in the country.

TEN YEARS AGO: The attorney for a young man whod testified he was fondled by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said his client had reached a settlement, the first among dozens of claims made against the school amid the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Nick Davilla threw six touchdown passes and the Arizona Rattlers defeated the Philadelphia Soul 48-39 in the ArenaBowl. Kansas Citys Miguel Tejada was suspended 105 games by Major League Baseball for violating its Joint Drug Program, one of the longest suspensions ever handed down.

FIVE YEARS AGO: President Donald Trump said he had canceled plans for a Veterans Day military parade, citing what he called a ridiculously high price tag; he accused local politicians in Washington of price-gouging. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with The New York Times, said hed been overwhelmed by job stress, an admission that pushed down the stock value of the electric car company and brought pressure on its board to take action; shares in Tesla tumbled about 9%.

ONE YEAR AGO: The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shakeup of the organization, saying it failed to meet the moment of COVID-19s arrival and needed to become more nimble. A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27. Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized.

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