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In this regard, the mission of the World Jewish Congress is to foster the unity and represent the interests of the Jewish people, and to ensure the continuity and development of its religious, spiritual, cultural, and social heritage. The World Jewish Congress seeks, among other things: to enhance solidarity among Jewish communities throughout the world and, recognizing the centrality of the State of Israel to contemporary Jewish identity, to strengthen the bonds of Jewish communities and Jews in the Diaspora with Israel,” and “to encourage and assist the creative development of Jewish social, religious, and cultural life throughout the world.”
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See AllWJC President Ronald S. Lauder Demands International Community Holds Hamas Accountable as Hostages Return Home
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Monday welcomed the confirmation that the final 20 living-hostages have returned to Israel from Gaza, emphasizing that “Hamas must now be disarmed, it can play no role in the future of the Palestinian people, and every last hostage must be brought home.” Amb. Lauder commended the “unwavering commitment of the United States and President Trump to defend the Jewish state and to uphold the principle that terror must never be rewarded.”
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The growing division among Jews of different religiousstreams, among observant and secular Jews, between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, areamong the most worrying trends threatening the Jewish people today. Throughout hismore than two decades at the helm of world Jewry, WJC President Ronald S.Lauder has emphasized the importance of Jewish unity.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, WJC President Lauderhas maintained his staunch advocacy for strengthening the bonds of unitybetween Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. He has also remained vocal in hiswarnings that the Israeli government’s policies vis-à-vis non-Orthodoxreligious practice, coupled with the ongoing political conflict, is drivingaway support from Diaspora Jewry, particularly in the United States.
In August 2021, President Lauder published an op-ed in TheJerusalem Post calling on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and ForeignMinister Yair Lapid to “embrace world Jewry and renew its alliance with theJewish people” and to “recognize the fact that what is happening today atAmerican universities, on American social networks and in Jewish communitiesaround the world is threatening the Zionist enterprise. It is no longer simplya PR problem. It is a danger to Israel’s national security. It is a new andgrave existential threat.”
“By its own hand, Israeleroded its longstanding alliance with America — and its cherished covenant withthe Jewish Diaspora,” President Lauder wrote. “If Israel does not find its wayinto the hearts and minds of millennials, Americans and Jews, the crucialAmerican-Israeli alliance will be severely damaged. And if this alliance isthus damaged, Israel will grow weaker and suffer. … Messrs. Bennett and Lapidmust do everything within their power to turn this around: rebuild theAmerican-Israeli alliance and the Israeli-Jewish alliance here and now.”
