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of-the-mill American Jewish multimil-
lionaire.
He is arguably one of the most
influential Jews in America, and there-
fore the world. He knows how to
work the organizational levers of
power and he puts his money where
his mouth is.
For the Bel Air meeting, Lauder
was wearing his hat as president of the
Jewish National Fund, which he sees
as a catalyst for the regional Middle
East desalination project.
But he is also chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, mak-
ing him the chief spokesman for orga-
nized American Jewry. He plays key
roles in the World Jewish Restitution
Organization and the World Jewish
Congress, and a listing of his involve-
ments in other American Jewish,
Israeli and general causes rakes up
another half page.
Then there is the Ronald S. Lauder
Foundation. In a dozen years, it has
established a string of 40 Jewish
schools, summer camps, youth cen-
ters, museums and student exchange
programs across 13 Central and
Eastern European countries, once con-
sidered the burial sites of dying Jewish
communities.
Only in politics has Lauder fallen
short of his goals. Although his old
friend Benjamin Netanyahu became
Israeli prime minister in 1996,
Netanyahu was defeated for re-elec-
tion this year.
In his own run for public office,
Lauder spent $14 million of his for-
tune 10 years ago to vie in the
Republican primary for mayor of New
York. The results were dismal.
Nevertheless, his services as a major
Republican fund-raiser, and his abili-
ties were recognized by President
Reagan, who in 1986 appointed
Lauder U.S. ambassador to Austria,
the birthplace of his grandparents.
It was curiously this appointment
that turned Lauder from a thoroughly
assimilated American Jew into a
champion of his people.
The 55-year-old Lauder, an engag-
ing speaker with a sense of humor,
traced this transformation for his Bel
Air guests. His move into the embassy
in Vienna coincided with revelations
about the Nazi past of Kurt
Waldheim, just as the former United
Nations secretary-general was inaugu-
rated as president of Austria.
The Viennese press thought it
knew who was behind the anti-
Waldheim "slurs" and fulminated
against the Jewish lobby, and particu-
larly the new Jewish ambassador from
the United States.
"It was the first time in my life that
I experienced real anti-Semitism,"
Lauder recalls.
To make matters more difficult, the
aged, sickly head of the Austrian
Jewish community, Ivan Hacker, paid
Lauder a visit and pleaded with him
to become the community's president
after his own death.
Lauder protested. "I told Hacker
that I knew as much about Judaism as
the Marine guard downstairs," Lauder
says.
Six months later, Hacker died and
his widow phoned Lauder to remind
him of his "promise." Lauder
demurred but agreed to attend a meet-