JEWISH PRESS
Lauder’s NY Times Op-Ed Misrepresents World Jewry
by Gabe Groisman
August 15, 2018
Ronald Lauder saw it fit to publish an opinion piece in the NY Times [Israel, This Is Not Who We Are] about what he believes is wrong with Israel today and how he believes Diaspora Jewry is being affected by what amounts to internal Israeli policy decisions. Lauder’s position, however, is stale, irrelevant, and not reflective of today’s reality. Despite his position as head of the World Jewish Congress, his opinion reflects – at best – that of the old-American-Jewish guard. Jews of the diaspora, under the age of 40, for the most part do not agree with his half-cooked positions. READ MORE
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