Unidentified persons seated at an event sponsored by The University at Albany's Center for Jewish Studies to honor philanthropist and World Jewish Congress President Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. at The Riverview in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. UAlbany President Karen R. Hitchcock awarded Bronfman the Medallion of the University, the institution's highest honor, for his distinguished leadership of the Jewish community and commitment to perpetuating Jewish life and a better world. [20002670]