Claims Conference Brouhaha

Published on May 22, 2013

Those are the questions critics are asking following the disclosure that the Claims Conference received an anonymous letter in 2001 identifying several fraudulent Holocaust-era restitution claims — nearly a decade before the organization halted a massive fraud scheme.

World Jewish Congress head praises Pope Francis

Published on March 13, 2013

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder congratulated Cardinal Jorge María Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, on his election as Pope Francis I on Wednesday.

Moshe Kantor awarded Italy’s highest honor for non-citizens

Published on February 21, 2013

Italy awarded Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, its highest decoration given to a non-Italian.

Turkey’s Erdogan says Israel sent ‘richest Jew’ to intercede

Published on September 20, 2012

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Turkish newspaper that Israel sent "the richest Jewish man in the world" to create better relations between the two countries.

Lauder to acquire control of Israeli news Web site

Published on July 9, 2012

Ronald Lauder is expected to acquire complete control of an Israeli news Web site and has plans to establish a new English-language Web site about Israel.

Elan Steinberg described as ‘great activist’ and ‘irreplaceable loss to world Jewry’

Published on April 10, 2012

Tributes and statements of profound respect and admiration are pouring in for Elan Steinberg, former executive director of the World Jewish Congress, who died April 6 of complications from lymphatic cancer. He was 59.

Lauder rips fine for Italian parliamentarian who blasted anti-Jewish cartoon

Published on January 24, 2012

Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, has expressed “outrage” that an Italian parliament deputy and journalist was fined for writing an article sharply criticizing a satirical cartoon that featured stereotypically Jewish depictions of a parliament colleague.

Invite Israel to join NATO, Ronald Lauder tells Germans

Published on February 8, 2011

Israel should be invited to join NATO, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder wrote in a German newspaper.

Lauder letter to Olmert urging Disapora role in Jerusalem negotiations stirs passions

By Jacob Berkman
Published on January 24, 2008

The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has roiled the organization's branch in Israel by writing to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a plea to allow Diaspora Jews a voice in any decisions on Jerusalem's future

The Scent of Controversy

Published on January 14, 1999

Ronald Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, philanthropist and conservative political activist, has been unanimously selected by a nominating committee to become the next chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.