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Ronald S. Lauder

Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, peaks at the 2013 Jerusalem Chairman's Conference on Sept. 22, 2013. Phoo by Flash 90.

Lauder to Biden: ‘This is not Germany in 1938; this is the United States in 2023’

The World Jewish Congress president wrote to the U.S. president: “Only you can stop this rising tide of hatred against the Jewish people.”

March 27, 2023

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

A ‘Marshall Plan’ for the Palestinian Authority won’t work

The P.A. isn't interested in money, but in destroying Israel.

July 7, 2022

A gathering of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians to discuss rising anti-Semitism, May 12, 2021. Source: World Jewish Congress.

International Jewish lawmakers: ‘We cannot be silent amid rising anti-Semitism, rocket attacks’

“We live in an era of conspiracy myths, rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and a disturbing recurrence of Holocaust denial online and offline,” said president of the World Jewish Congress Ronald S. Lauder.

May 14, 2021

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.). Credit: BestStockFoto/Shutterstock.

International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians evoked to track anti-Semitism

The newly relaunched entity will convene for its first consultation this spring in a lead-up to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly.

March 9, 2021

U.S. President Ronald Reagan with Secretary of State George Shultz outside the Oval Office on Dec. 4, 1986. Credit: Reagan White House Photographic Collection via Wikimedia Commons.

Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder once asked the longtime U.S. statesman, who passed away at the age of 100 on Feb. 6, why he stood up for American and Israeli Jews when he was often pressured not to. He responded: “Because I thought you were right.”

Dovid Zaklikowski

February 16, 2021

To battle Holocaust denial, Facebook announces tool to connect users with facts

It will first be available in English-speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States.

January 27, 2021

Israeli job-seekers are supported by JNF-USA’s Lauder Employment Center. Credit: Courtesy.

Nurturing talent in the Negev as Israel prepares for economic recovery

The Lauder Employment Center has set a goal of bringing 500,000 people to the desert.

Ryan Torok

October 26, 2020

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

World Jewish Congress president meets with Abbas

Ronald S. Lauder spoke with the Palestinian Authority leader for what was “a private visit at [Mahmoud] Abbas’s invitation to discuss a range of issues regarding Palestine and the Middle East.”

October 13, 2020

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp for ceremonies marking the 70th year of its liberation by Allied forces, January 2015. Credit: European Jewish Press.

Auschwitz liberation ceremony draws world leaders, Holocaust survivors and their families

“Seventy-five years ago today, when Soviet troops entered these gates, they had no idea what lay behind them. And since that day, the entire world has struggled with what they found inside,” said World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder.

January 27, 2020