President Clinton awarded World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman the nation’s highest civilian honor. Bronfman, whom Clinton praised as a “powerful voice for human rights” who helped win freedom for Soviet Jews in the 1980s and demanded justice for Holocaust survivors in the 1990s, was among eight Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday.
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