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Lauder To Lead
Conference Of
Presidents

New York/JTA
onald Lauder, cosmetics
company heir and president
of the Jewish National
Fund, has been named
unanimously by the nominating com-
mittee of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations as its choice for one of
American Jewry's top positions. He will
lead the 55-member umbrella group,
which voices the American Jewish com-
munity's political concerns to the White
House, Israel and other world leaders.
Although five other candidates'
names remain on the ballot, Lauder, a
friend of both Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and New York
Gov. George
Pataki, is the pre-
sumed successor
to Chairman
Melvin Salberg.
An election is
scheduled to take
place over the next
30 days. He
would take office
in June, after a
short overlap with Ronald Lauder
Salberg.
A relative newcomer to the
Conference, Lauder is a prominent
businessman with an extensive philan-
thropic portfolio. The Ronald S.
Lauder Foundation, founded in 1987,
has been at the forefront of Jewish
revival, education and community out-
reach programs throughout Europe
and the former Soviet Union. He
serves as the chairman of the
Commission for Art Recovery and
treasurer of the World Jewish Congress
and is the chairman of the board of
trustees for the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, as well as numerous
Jewish and educational institutions.
He was chosen by the seven-member
nominating committee, appointed by
Salberg and led by former Chairman
Leon Levy, the president of the
/
American Sephardic Federation. Other
nominees in what one leader described
as a "vigorously" contested challenge
included Dr. Mandell Ganchrow of the
Orthodox Union, Philip Meltzer of the
Association of Reform Zionists of
America and Robert Rifkind, the
immediate past president of the
American Jewish Committee. 7

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