Middle East Peace Begins in the Classroom
October 8, 2009
Edgar M. Bronfman – Huffington Post… My predecessor as President of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann, negotiated the great papal encyclical “Nostra Aetate” with Pope John XXIII. As important as that document was in starting on the path of reconciliation, it didn’t really change things on the ground. That’s why the International Catholic Jewish Liaison Committee, [and HERE] an organization consisting of Jewish and Catholic communal leaders, was created: to improve interfaith relations, tangibly and from the relationship’s core.
Among its other missions, the committee met regularly and took on the issue of what textbooks used in the classrooms said about the other faith. I was there at some of those meetings, and as difficult as it was in some instances, progress was always made …
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edgar-m-bronfman/middle-east-peace-begins_b_313672.html
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The Vatican Mafia
January 21, 2007Cardinal Walter Kasper, Pope Benedict XVI, WJC President Edgar M. Bronfman, WJC Governing Board Chairman Israel Singer
World Jewish Congress President, Edgar M. Bronfman is heir to the Bronfman family empire which made it’s first million in the whiskey and brothel rackets during prohibition in cooperation with Meyer Lansky’s Murder Incorporated. Today, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has steered the empire into more respectable territory, namely, selling gangster rap to “tweens,” (media marketing terminology for children between the ages of 8-12).