Volume xiX, Issue XXII | thejewishvoice.org Serving Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts
2 Sh’vat 5774 | January 3, 2014
Health & Wellness
Edgar Bronfman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, dies at 84 NEW YORK (JTA) – Edgar Bronfman, the billionaire former beverage magnate and leading Jewish philanthropist, died December 21. As the longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman fought for Jewish rights worldwide and led the successful fight to secure more than a billion dollars in restitution from Swiss banks for Holocaust victims and their heirs. As a philanthropist, Bronfman took the lead in creating and funding many efforts
to strengthen Jewish identity among young people. Bronfman spent the 1950s and 1960s working with his father, Samuel, at Seagram Ltd., the family’s beverage business. He became chairman of the company in 1971, the year of his father’s death. Just a year earlier, in 1970, Bronfman took part in a delegation to Russia to lobby the Kremlin for greater rights for Jews in the now-former Soviet bronfman | 24
Photos | Ed Bruckner | Hillary Schulman
Max Brickle, left, Ilana Edelstein, Barbra Brickle and Neil and Randi-Beth Beranbaum
Barbra and Max Brickle host launch of J-Futures Event offers The Alliance Experience By Edward Bruckner
President Barack Obama and Edgar M. Bronfman
The inaugural event for J-Futures was held on December 17 at the North Kingstown home of Barbra and Max Brickle. J-Futures is a series of unique Jewish Alliance programs focused on engaging new, and strengthening existing, Jew-
ish leadership in our community. The launch of Alliance J-Futures was a huge success, engaging more people to have a big impact on the future of the Jewish community. Brickle | 14