Leonard Lauder, who expanded his Jewish family’s business into a cosmetics empire, dies at 92
As CEO of the Estée Lauder Companies, he generated a fortune that supported his philanthropy in the arts and his brother Ronald’s support for Jewish causes
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Fast Forward Estee Lauder Targeted For Boycotts Due To Ronald Lauder’s Trump Support
The group that led the boycott of SoulCycle and other brands owned by billionaire Trump supporter Stephen Ross has turned its attention to Estee Lauder due to the relationship between President Trump and board member and heir Ronald Lauder. Ronald Lauder, the son of Estee Lauder, is a leading Jewish philanthropist and the president of…
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The Schmooze 5 Ways the Estée Lauder Family Is Just Like Us — Not!
The Lauder clan of the Estée Lauder makeup behemoth are billionaires who, if an April profile of the family in Town and Country is any indication, like to accessorize their 1% status with allusions to their Jewy-bougie roots. 1) “Estée was a fairly typical Jewish mother and grandmother — with the emphasis on grand. Leonard…
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Fast Forward World Jewish Congress Slams Polish Magazine Over Claim of Mismanaging Restitution Funds
The World Jewish Congress slammed a Polish magazine report that alleged corrupt practices in the restitution and management of Jewish property in Poland. In a statement issued Sept. 18, WJC President Ronald Lauder called the report in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine “littered with factual errors” and “sensationalist,” and its allegations “unfounded and slanderous.”…
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Culture The Enduring Jewish Traditions of Philanthropy and Collecting
Most people, if asked to define what the modernization of the Jews entailed, would no doubt refer to the ways in which they took to urban life, made much of higher education, prospered economically, and exchanged Yiddish and Ladino for English (or French or German). They’d be right to think so. But if I had…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jewish Leader Mends Fences With Lauder
The leader of Austria’s Jewish community said on Friday he had put aside differences with World Jewish Congress head Ron Lauder over Lauder’s alleged interference in the community’s leadership election. Oskar Deutsch, the president of Austria’s official IKG Jewish organisation, had last month banned Lauder from IKG property over complaints that he had offered incentives…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jewish Group Bans Lauder in Election Spat
Austria’s official Jewish organisation has banned billionaire Ron Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress and a former U.S. ambassador, from its property over complaints he meddled with its elections. A spokesman for Lauder on Thursday dismissed the allegations as “a distortion of the truth”. The move by IKG, Austria’s official representative of Jews, is…
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The Schmooze Estee Lauder’s Synagogue Gets a Facelift
Estee Lauder and her parents once worshiped at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Corona, Queens — the borough’s oldest synagogue. So it’s about time that the century-old wooden shul is getting a makeover. The landmarked building, “a rare survivor of the earliest vernacular synagogues in the borough” according to Crain’s NY Business, will undergo a major…
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