Donor’s Letter Points the Finger at Jewish Group’s Leader

Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, an advocacy organization for Holocaust survivors and other Jews, has issued a letter accusing the group’s former leader of financial wrongdoing, reports The New York Times.

Mr. Bronfman’s letter suggests that Israel Singer was fired last month because new information about controversial money transfers had been received.

“I learned that a man I called my rabbi, my friend and even my son had undermined the very principles of morality and integrity we fought together to preserve around the world,” wrote Mr. Bronfman in the March 30 letter to the group’s affiliates.

Mr. Singer’s lawyer denied Mr. Bronfman’s accusations: “The allegations, in so far as a claim that he did anything which was morally or legally wrong, are themselves dead wrong.”

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