Re: FW: RUN-DMC?

[Bill Barabash <billb...>]

Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net> writes:

> You also have to understand that Samuel Bronfman senior, the head of the 
> World Jewish Congress and a grand Jewish philanthropist, does his 
> philanthropy on the basis of the exploitation of a whole industry and 
> market.  His son does the dirty work while the father whitewashes it with 
> some good deeds.  God, I sound like a socialist here which I am not.  But I 
> am pretty disgusted with some of the Jewish philanthropists whose money 
> come from tobacco (the Tisches own Lorrilard), liquor and misogynistic, 
> sex-filled lyrics (the Bronfmans own Seagram plus...).   Well, now I sound 
> like a conservative, family-values-right-winger which I am also not. 
>    Well, I guess I am somewhere in between on this.

I have to disagree on this.  Edgar Bronfman Sr. is the WJC head and he is known
more for his good deeds than for his personal donations.  Most recently he
grabbed headlines by negotiating the $1.2b Swiss bank-Holocaust survivor
settlement.  Prior to that, he was known for negotiating the release of 
ex-Soviet
refuseniks including Natan Sharansky, and ultimately negotiating the right to
free emigration for all Jews in the former Soviet Union.  It was also he who
unmasked the secret Nazi past of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim,
yemakh shemo.  (Among his other ghastly war crimes, Waldheim was in charge
of rounding up the Jews of Thessalonika, Greece -- Europe's oldest Jewish
community --and sending them to Auschwitz.)

-- Bill B.

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