Word: bronfmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next afternoon, Bronfman met President Clinton in the White House. After the Jewish leader had described the Swiss bank issue, Clinton looked pensive. Then he said, "Edgar, if it is necessary, I will work with Senator D'Amato on legislation on this matter." Moving fast, the President ordered Secretary Eizenstat to investigate the U.S. archives. With the ammunition Singer and D'Amato had dug out of the Safehaven trove, emotional Senate hearings in April and again last October matched testimony from Holocaust survivors with hard evidence of Swiss service to the Reich...
...Britain and France froze the distribution of $68 million in gold bars they still hold from the Nazi hoard. It is the last portion of the spoils retrieved by the Allies after the war and was supposed to be parceled out to the remaining nations that claim it. Bronfman advised Clinton to suspend any action until the three Allies decide whether this gold--symbolically at least--was melted down from private Jewish assets rather than national treasuries and should be given to Holocaust victims...
...main spokesman for Switzerland's 18,000 Jews. "We are Jews in a Swiss way," says Bloch. "We don't want to blame all the Swiss or put them under assault." A Jewish lawyer in Zurich representing 20 people seeking information on wartime accounts considers D'Amato's and Bronfman's tactics counterproductive. "So aggressive, so hostile," he says. "This banging on the head is wrong, and it has provoked reaction. Now we are seeing signs of anti-Semitism in Switzerland...
...Bronfman is not swayed by criticism either. "If we did not put pressure on them, nothing would have happened," he says flatly. "I think about it. But Jews do not make anti-Semitism. Anti-Semites make anti-Semitism. If we are going to give them an excuse to yell at Jews, O.K. But there is a moral issue here," he says with grave passion, "and the issue is truth...
...Ovitz isn't being profligate, as is clear from a story that Seagram's scion Edgar Bronfman Jr. has told friends. Years ago, Ovitz, then an agent, called Bronfman to ask him to prevent the forced retirement of Ovitz's father, who worked for a Southern California liquor distributor affiliated with Seagram. Bronfman complied. In 1995 the two had a much publicized encounter when Bronfman nearly hired Ovitz to run Universal but balked at his extravagant compensation demands. They hadn't really talked since--until Bronfman called Ovitz recently to ask whether he could drop the elder Ovitz from...