New York: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. elected president of the World Jewish Congress.
–spearheads campaigns to free Soviet Jewry, to expose the Nazi past of Austrian president Kurt Waldheim, and the campaign to compensate victims of the Holocaust and their heirs (notably in the case of the Swiss banks).
A big financial banker of HILLEL, including the Shalhevet Division (Orthodox), established The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel, a leadership program for Jewish youth.
Founder of the website MyJewishLearning.com, a dynamic journalistic laboratory for elite Jewish students, blogs–included.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1999.
[b. June 20, 1929…Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr., is the son of Sam Bronfman (Canadian), founder of Seagrams. He (Edgar) is the father of the noted corporate financier Edgar M. Bronfman, Jr.]