Ronald Lauder
Ronald S Lauder (born 26 February 1944) is a Jewish-American businessman and political activist. He is the billionaire head of the Foundation which bears his name, and which aggressively funds Jewish causes in the USA, as well as central and Eastern Europe. He is President of the World Jewish Congress. According to Forbes Magazine, his net worth is $3.8 billion as of 2014.[1]
Family
Lauder was born in New York City, the second son of Joseph Lauter (who later changed the spelling to Lauder)[2] and his wife Estée Metzner, a Hungarian Jewess who made her fortune in perfumes and cosmetics under her married name. She had her children raised in her faith.
Ronald Lauder's daughter Jane is married to Kevin Warsh, also Jewish, a former member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve.[3]
Politics
Lauder was President Ronald Reagan's appointment as US Ambassador to Austria, where he served 1986-1987. He was later a Republican Party candidate when he made a bid to become the mayor of New York City in 1989, losing to Rudy Giuliani in the Republican primaries. Michael Massing, writing of this mayoral election contest, said that politically Lauder "seemed out of step with most American Jews; ... he ran to the right of Rudolph Giuliani. And, on Israeli issues, he was a vocal Likudnik, with long-standing ties to Benjamin Netanyahu".[4]
In a 2018 speech on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he described the location as "holy ground".[5] See also Holocaustianity.
References
- ↑ Ronald Lauder Forbes, The World's Billionaires
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140714122203/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/estee-lauder.html
- ↑ "Kevin M. Warsh, '92 – The Governor Is In" Stanford Alumni News
- ↑ Massing, Michael, Deal Breakers, The American Prospect, March 2002
- ↑ Wikipedia, Ronald Lauder, 04:52, 4 May 2020 version https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronald_Lauder&oldid=954759565
