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Edgar Bronfman receives highest honor

by NEW YORK (JPS) -- Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress and billionaire chairman of the Seagram Corp., is one o, Bronfman, a major benefactor of the Democratic Party, has worked "to ensure basic rights for Jews around the world and to fight

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The other nine recipients include former President Jimmy Carter; former President Gerald Ford; Evy Dubrow, a representative for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union who has advocated for laws to improve labor conditions for more than 50 years; and lawyer-diplomat Max Kampelman, who conveyed word in the 1980s that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would consider Jewish emigration.


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