French Jewish leader Henri Hajdenberg will be the sole candidate to head the European Jewish Congress when the group votes for a new leader on Sunday, according to French Jewish sources. Hajdenberg, 52, is president of CRIF, the umbrella body for France’s 700,000-member Jewish community.
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