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3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 513.487.3000 AmericanJewishArchives.org The Forward Fifty-Jewish Leaders to Watch in the Year Ahead '.:;,;~~~e.,~ EDGAR BRONFMAN RABBI ALEXANDER SCHINDLER EDWARD KOCH · RABBI AVI WEISS

Globe-trotting ambas­ Liberal lion of Reform Three-term New York Rabbi with rap sheet, sador for world J ewry, movement, inclusionist mayor, lifetime champi­ scourge of Farrakhan­ president of World Jew­ extraordinaire. Spirirual on of Jewish causes, one­ ites, Waldheimites, tor­ ish Congress since 1980, leader for 1.3 million man communications mentor of Jewish head of World Jewish Americans in 875 syna­ conglomerate. Booted establishment, president Restitution Organiza­ gogues, president of our of City Hall, he took of Coalition for Jewish tion since Iron Curtain's Union of American to airwaves, tabloid Concems-Arncha. Cham­ collapse. Billionaire Hebrew Congregations columns to decry racial pions causes before they CEO of Seagram's from 1973. Championed quotas, racial prefer­ become popular - Sovi­ spends 50% of time on outreach to in termar­ ences, multicultural et Jews, Jonathan Pol­ WJC aff!l,irs, meeting 57 ried, conversion for non­ mania, black anti­ lard, Crown Heights - heads of state on five Jewish spouses, Semitism. As first public then organizes, agitates, continents in past en franchisement - figure to brand Crown demonstrates, poses for decade, freeing J ews including rabbinical and Heights a "pogrom," as mug shots, then instiru­ from dozens of coun­ cantorial ordination - self-described "Voice of tional Jewry joins fray. tries, getting Russia and . for gays, lesbians. Drove Reason," his tell-it:-like­ Almost alone put cle- , 10 former communist sate.llites to join WJC. Other Reform movement hard to left, published commen­ it-is style helped steer generation of once-liberal Jews mency for Pollard on Jewish agendas when other lead­ exploits: Secret diplomacy helps cement Israel-Vati­ tary on Torah, battled Orthodox monopoly on govern­ in conservative direction for first rime jn their Lives. ers nursed doubts on the issue or feared charges of can ties, archive-scouring helps expose Kurt Wjl.ld­ ment assist.ance in Israel. Biggest controversy: dual loyalty;·awakened America to NYC's failure to heim's Nazi past. Subtle he's not. Decreed patrilineaJ descent equal to matrilineaJ in protect Eastern Parkway Jews wheri mainstream interfaith marriages, causing rift in Reform. move­ groups stayed mute. Would the Carmelite convene at ment. "Right problem," antagonists said. ''But wrong MAX FISHER Auschwitz srill be there had he not climbed that fence, solution." German born, like Reform itself, 69, Holo­ arnacting global attention to the troubling symbol? RABBI IRVING 'YITZ' GREENBERG caust survivor, he no longer resembles flock in age, Confidant of Ameri­ Foes of confrontationalism, citing arrests from Bronx world experience; retires in 1996, American-bred can presidents (mainly to Bergen-Belsen, brand him "Jewish Al Sharpton." . Teacher of tomorrow's baby boomer likely to take his place. the Republican ones), federation elite, Ortho­ Israeli prime ministers. dox preacher of Judaic A Jewish Agency foun­ pluralism, heretic to der, pillar ofUJA, doyen LOUISE GREILSHElMER Orthodox rightists, pres­ ALAN DERSHOWllZ of Zionist nation­ ident of National Jewish builders. Gives half his Doyen of domestic dol­ Center for Learning and Harvard professor as multimillion-dollar oil lars, stewardess of $148 Leadership since 1974. avenging angel, civil lib­ and real-estate income million treasure trove, Theologian-educator erties attorney as each year to Israel or president-elect of Unit­ with radical impact on defender of faith, schol­ Jewish causes; yet when ed Jewish Appeal-Fed­ institutions: His 1963 tri­ ar as warrior. "American hometown Detroit feder­ eration of Jewish umph in battle with Jews need more chutz­ ation revamped funding Philanthropies of Yeshiva University over pah," he argues. Turns formulas, upping domes­ Greater New York. Sits teaching pioneer course courthouse into battle­ tic spending at expense at side of lame-duck on Holocaust - YU field, defends Jonathan of overseas giving, his backstage backing made revo­ prexy, Alan J affe, serv­ thought it "parochial," Pollard, then slams lutionary shifts possible. When octogenarian dean of ing one-year apprentice­ too Jewish, would be "misunderstood" by graduate silence of Jewish leaders Israel-giving quietly signals support, other American ship, but after accession schools - led to spread of such srudies across Ameri­ on spy; sues Cardinal federations follow, spending more charitable dollars on July 1, pay attention. ca. CLAL classes, seminars, lectures, retreats in 40 Glemp for anti-Semitic at home. Autocratic personality sometimes rankles. Federation-watchers cities redirect communal leadership, transform feder­ defamation, then rips With Republicans suddenly in the majority in the predict reign will lead ation priorities, focus on community-bu.ilding, Jewish­ sycophantic behavior of - ·· -~. _ Congress, though, he may have the last laugh. charity - kicking, identity nurturing, not mere fund-raising, Jewish establishment CARO~VNCOHE.~ screaming - to rewrite funding formulas posting. 57 social-action agenda. But intra-denominational line­ undercutting his case. Says Elie Wiesel,"A few people overseas for every $3 spent at home. Inexperienced blurring, bread-breakfog with Reform makes him like Alan Dershowitz in the 1930s and 1940s and the on Israel, former chairman of UJA-Federation anathema to Orthodox rabbinate. history of European Jewry might have been differ­ RICHARD PEARLSTONE domestic affairs, her elevation deadlocked closed­ ent." But in the American context, just what are his door nominating committee, sparked fears she'll politics? Young man in a hurry, steer Jess to Zion, more to home front, taking biggest alumnus of 1960s coun­ Jewish money machine in direction of Detroit, Mil­ BETH GILINSKY terculture, first baby waukee, Boston. If change defines leadership, she boomer to run United has the chance. Brainy Jewish fire­ :-~· G;RTON MAN.DEO Jewish Appeal. Re-engi­ brand, 30-somerhing , . . -,,., neering UJA campaign oresident and founder ~Q,' LifZ•~-t--- ,, .. "Morton \'\'ho?" No household word, yet Cleveland themes, marketing <,1.1,. uvuu;:. r\ULU~.lClU\.. pta.:,uucu.u ..r -.>v11.1«::uu1c-.> LG.IU'\.n;..:,. ~a. \,,,i....n..,,.. ua~e~, !>~11w1t.«::i:, J.~ctun::>, recn:cns m ~v r ea era non-watcner s ~ /WIJI',,•:.· I cities redirect communal leadership, transform feder­ defa,;;ation, then rips With Republicans suddenly in the majority in the predict reign will lead ,".f"' · ; _ · / ation priorities, focus on community-building, Jewish­ sycophantic behavior of 1~ '1\,.1 Congress, though, he may have the last laugh. charity - kicking, iden ticy nurturing, nor mere Jund-raising, Jewish establishment CAROLYN C01i£N screaming- to rewrite funding formulas posting S7 social-action agenda. But intra-denominational line­ undercutting hisc:ase. Says Elie Wiesel,"A few people overseas for every $3 spent at home. Inexperienced blurring, bread-breaking with Reform makes him like Alan Dershowitz in the 1930s and 1940s and the on Israel, former chairman of UJA-Federation anathema to Orthodox rabbinate. history of European Jewry might have been differ­ RICHARD PEARLSTONE domestic affairs, her elevation deadlocked closed­ ent." Bur in the American context, just what are his door nominating committee, sparked fears she'll politics? Young man in a hurry, steer less to Zion, more to home front, taking biggest alumnus of 1960s coun­ Jewish money machine in direction of Detroit, Mil­ BETH GILINSKV terculture, first baby waukee, Boston. U change defines leadership, sh,e boomer to run United has the chance. Brainy Jewish fire­ MORTON MANDEL Jewish Appeal. Re-engi­ brand, 30-something neering UJA campaign president and founder "Morton Who?" No household word, yet Cleveland themes, marketing of Jewish Action industrialist is on White House short list of Jews-to-be­ approaches, ractling its GARY RUBIN Alliance. Offers alterna­ consulted-in-Oval-Office - or money-men-to-be-invit­ fossilized· structures, tive, right-leaning voice ed-to-Rose-Garden - on all Israel-oriented policy ushering in change with Rising star of Jewish for activist Jewry, grass-. initiatives. No wonder: Have checkbook, will travel; simple credo, "Incre­ Arabists, dean of roots appeal for many generous to Bill Clinton, legions of Democratic cancli­ mental steps are worth- peaceniks, "Mort Klein feeling unrepresented dates, past president of Council of Jewish Federations 1ess ! " Mission as of the left," executive by elite Jewish estab­ went even further, founding National Jewish Demo­ national chairman: director of Americans lishment. Defining mo­ cratic Council in 1990. Still chairman of NJDC, his Raise $730 million, Jure for Peace Now. Took ment as young leader: donkeys suffered blowout in mid-terms, yet his influ­ Jews born after World helm in 1993 champi­ August 1991. Yanke! ence in political arena may still arrest Jewish defec­ War II to replace Zionist septuagenarians and octoge­ oning no-hol.ds-barred Rosenbaum murde.-par­ tions to GOP. . narians, abandon campaigns based on Middle East ourreach to Arab groups, alyzes mainsrream Jew- warfare and anti-Semitism, begin.peacetime appeals peace ~dvocacy more ish groups, JCRC and ,. using Israel to safeguard Jewish continuity in Ameri­ zealous than Laborites. ADL don't return phone calls; she plunges·iiito' lead­ MICHAEL LERNER ca. Brash, abrasive, tactless, rislRudy Giuliani into City Jewish causes, survivor tor of Conference of Hall, evict Mario Cuomo from Governor's Mansion, Je,,,ish radicalism. His melding of Jewish renewal groups, Holocall!St muse­ Presidents of Major enthrone George Pataki in Empire State. King of with social liberalism proves particularly seductive to ums. Inspired by own American Jewish Orga­ alienated Jewry on left. Like all charismatic leaders, Jews? Or has ego grown bigger than his district? opus, sets our to record, rtizations since 1986. As movement may prove inexrricably bound up with his document enormity of Nazi horrors, creating Sur­ "central address" for personality. Is Hillary still listening? vivors of Shoah Visual History Foundation to video­ Jews, contact man for 50 tape testimony from 150,000 surnvors by year 2000. groups in Conference ELIE WIESEL · But Hollywood's definitive Holocaust hero is srrap­ umbrella, he brings con­ ping Christian rescuer? Forwara criric dismisses BENJAMIN MEED sensual representation Poet of annihilation, screen wizard for "at last finding his Jewish voice and via diplomacy, eschew­ chronicler of Holocaust. summoning up nothing more original than a feel-good Enshriner of 6 million, ing arm-twisting, keep- !-U~.:a Global conscience awak­ movie of Christian redemption and Jewish defeat." :ing leftist peaceniks, ens world to butchering guardian of memory. Warsaw Ghecto sur­ rightist hawks in fold. Maintains respect, iinds of Bosnians, Burmese, srrength, power in diversity, rarely papers over dii­ Cambodians, Rwan­ vivor, president of American Gathering of ferences, seldom openly imposes discipline; yet Con­ dans. Winner, 1986 KENNETH BIALKIN ference troubled by burst of "freelance lobbying" Nobel Peace Prize. Nov­ Jewish Holocaust Sur­ vivors since 1981. Driv- outside A.ipac, conflicts before Congress, fears ram- e list of lamentations. "We heard cries of 'Heil Hitler!' and 'Kill the Jews!' 'h. •.... ,,. '..,.,,.,. 7',.."''c-r f\..- ~ · ,..,. •,.,, ... -.t i. ...~,..' ...... ~ · ... !•• 1,.Vl Vl '-,UIUC:1 t::U1..0 VI uu1....u1.:. uu,u 1ucsyu, d.uy, u~ut::1 .l\.uuy \..JIWli:IJU uuu '-'''-Y Presidents of Major Jewish radicalism: His melding of Jewish renewal "g;o~~~ H~i~~u;;-;.~-;_ r • .I~ Hall, evict Mario Cuomo from Governor's Mansion, with social liberalism proves particularly seductive to urns. Inspired by own i itflf American Jewish Orga­ enthrone George Pataki in Empire State. King of alienated Jewry on left. Like all charismatic leaders, opus, sets out to record, nizations since 1986. As Jews? Or has ego grown bigger than his disoict? movement may prove inextricably bound up with his document enormity of Nazi horrors, creating Sur­ "central address" for personality. Is Hillary srill listening? vivors of Shoah Visual History Foundation to video­ Jews, contact man for 50 tape testimony from 150,000 survi,,ors by year 2000. groups in Conference But Hollywood's definitive Holocaust hero is scrap­ umbrella, he brings con­ ELIE WIESEL ping Christian rescuer? forwara critic dismisses sensual representation BENJAMIN MEED screen wizard for "at last finding his Jewish voice and via diplomacy, eschew­ Poet of annihilation, summoning up nothing more original than a feel-good ing arm-twisting, keep­ chronicler of Holocaust. Enshriner of 6 million, movie of Christian redemption and Jewish defeat." ing leftist peaceniks, Global conscience awak­ guardian of memory. rightist hawks in fold. Maintains respect, finds' ens world to butchering Warsaw Ghetto sur­ strength, power in diversity, rarely papers over dif· of Bosnians, Burmese, vivor, president of ferences, seldom openly imposes discipline; yet Con-. Cambodians, Rwan­ American Gathering of KENNETH BIALKlN ference troubled by burst of "freelance lobbying" dans. Winner, 1986 Jewish Holocaust Sur­ outside Aipac, conflicts before Congress, fears ram· Nobel Peace Prize. Nov­ vivors since 1981. Driv­ "We heard cries of 'Heil Hitler!' and 'Kill the Jews!' bunctious Zionist Organization of America on right, elist of lamentations, ing spiril behind U.S. on the streets of Brooklyn." With chilling words, first Americans for Peace Now on left, could undercut Jew­ master of mournful pen, Holocaust Memorial establishment Je wish leader held first mainstream­ ish unity on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, presidems, articulator of inexpress· Museum in Washington, sponsored protest against Crown Heights anti­ potentates, prime ministers, kings, even sheiks come ible: "Why did Cod Living Memorial to Semitism. Alone among uptown's leadership, calling; rescue of Syrian, Ethiopian, Romanian. Sovi· allow such catastro· Holocaust in New York; president of Jewish Community Relations Council, et, Yemenite Jewry follows. Thin-skinned. phe?" Access to White created "Book of former ADL chairman, former Presidents Conference House permits dramatic Names," listing 80,000 chairman, actually journeyed to Eastern Parkway s1aging: At South Lawn survivors, ensuring during riots, bore wimess, knew he had seen no mere awards ceremony, 1985, on eve of President Reagan's remembranc·e. Won flare-up of black-Chasidic tensions, but black anti­ DEBORAH KAPLAN trip to Bitburg, he spoke up, "That place, Mr. Presi­ showdown with sponsors of Salute to Israel parade Semitism in epochal eruption. Maithanan rally drew dent, is not your place." At dedication of Holocaust this year when celebration was scheduled same day as 5,000, spread message, awakened sleeping leaders to Den mother for Museum, 1993, he told Bill Clinton of old Yugoslavia, ¥om HaShoah commemoration. Survivors. threaten to dimensions of crisis. 385,000 socially active, "We must do something to stop bloodshed." Passion­ lie down on Fifth Avenue, block festive parade, pre­ politically liberal, pro­ ate human rights crusader, he rose to fame, celebrity, serve memorialfaation; parade date is moved. Was this choice American Jewish illuminating horrors of Auschwitz, Holocaust, Jewish last hurrah? Time, acruarial tables, lost witnesses tak· women. National presi­ victimization. Is world tired of listening? ing toll. RONALD LAUDER dent of Hadass ah si nee 1991. Steers Ameri~a's Ambassador, cosmet· largest, oldest Zionist ics scion, mayoral candi­ organization, expanding MAYNARD WISHNER LESTER POLLACK date, term-limits role at home without crusader, privatization diluting mission abroad, Godfather of Jewish Bland bombshell of American Jewry, consummate guru. Forged new career creating Curriculum institutional politics, institutional diplomat, chairman of Conference of after collapse of Iron Watch to comb school mas1er at prodding Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Curtain - rekindling textbooks, ferret out unwieldy Jewish bureau­ since 1992. Keeps semblance of order in SO-player, big­ Jewish life in Eastern anti-Jewish, anti-Israel cracies toward consen­ tent known for di.sorder, holds court at Park Avenue Europe, reawakening passages. Social welfare, , sus, president of Council power breakfasts in Regency Hotel, where more Jew­ via education communi· health, education, absorption, Israel aliya remain pri­ of Jewish Federations. ish business transacted than in Tel Aviv bourse. ties obliterated by Nazis orities; but graying of membership forcing sisterhood Unapologetic champion Financier was consensus choice at Conference, after and communists. Philan­ to turn inward, address assimilation, launch outreach of "big-tent" Jewish firefight between AJCommittee's Alfred Moses, thropist extraordinaire, to lure younger members. Suffered defeats in world communal life, past AJCongress' Robert Lifton. With 90% of Conference he returned Jewish Zionism, so opposed democratic elections to World chairman of National work behind closed doors, he labors quiedy, effec­ schooling to Warsaw and - - . - - - --­ Zionist Organization, winning special starus so dele­ Jewish Community tively on rescue missions, pro-Israel agenda. But some Budapest, built a school ROSA.Ll)LCLASS~WI01992 gates no longer have to stand for election. "rm elat· • Relations Advisory question priorities, capacity for boldness: Met Bill for Russian Jews in Vienna, opened the first Jewish ed," she says. Is Herzl -who called WZO "Parliamen 1 Council and president of Clinton day after president turned down Jonathan kindergarten in Prague since 1940, revitalized Jewish of Jewish People" - rolling over in grave? · American Jewish Com· Pollard commutation bid; sat in Oval Office, failed to communal life, reversing legacy of stormtroopers and miuee, his trademark ask about Pollard decision. Why? commissars. In spare time, bankrolled :-lew York wit, integrity, counliness have kept diverse communi· term-limits referendum. Polls show steep negacives cy within its folds. "Jewish life is full of fissures, rifts, linger with electorate from 1989 mayoral bid. fault lines," he muses. With gentle word, kindly smile, he minimizes institutional tensions. N'on-confronta­ tional style has drawbacks: CJF, NJCRAC often take weak-kneed, watered-down positions on crucial issues. -· ...... _.._._, .. ..., .- ---...... , - .,;~ ., ------.. ·-·· The Forward Fifty Jewish Leaders to Watch in the Year Ahead

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Son of cloakmakers, Soul of progressive Co-founder of Ms. Mister Orthodox, poli­ former union organizer Orthodoxy, president of magazine in 1971, cy dean £or charedi for beltmakers, dress­ Yeshiva University blender of Judaism into world, president of Agu­ makers. President of since 1976. Man of faith, liberal, feminist politics. dath Israel of America International Ladies he writes extensively of Author of "Deborah, since 1963. Political Garment Workers doubt; and doubts now Golda and Me: Being genius. Both David Dink­ Union since 1986, presi­ cloud bastion of Torah Jewish and Female in ins, Rudy Giuliani sure dent of National Com­ scholarsh.ip: Is nonsec­ America." Never left the they enjoyed his support mittee for Labor Israel tarian school coo reli­ left, but unlike sisters in for mayor; both Mario since 1990. Ever-vigilant gious? Or is spiritual feminism, Gloria Cuomo, George Pataki crusade~avenger for institute of Orthodoxy Steinem, Berey Freidan, sure they had his sup· working man, antenna not religious enough? who downplay, even port for governor. Both goes up wherever picket Debate exploded over muzzle, Jewish back­ Ted Kimnedy, Newt Gin­ lines are walked: Israeli gay, lesbian clubs on grounds, she incorpo­ grich listed among his ambassador to United campus, campaign by rates Judaic dimension ---·-·----· closest friends. Leading Nations, Gad Yaacobi, some YU students to ban in teachings, writings: NADtNEMARKOVA, 1991 Jewish crusader for prominent Laborite, ready to cross line at Harvard them. So prexy, despite personal misgivings, weighed "Asking Jewish· woman to play favorites between her rights - and tuition tax credits - for non-public­ Club; soikers hand ambassador lener from ILGWU in, "To deny gay clubs right to function would be to two basic affinity groups is like asking to pick a school children. Organizes low-key, hugely successful chief, promising to rell newspapers if Labor represen­ deny YU right to exist." Crises navigation nothing favorite among her c:hildren, or choose between air voter-registration drives among Orthodox, largely tative defies labor unions; outflanked, ambassador new to rabbi-philosopher-ceacher-author who rebuilt and water; I'm both Jewish and female, so I need both benefiting GOP. Mayor Giuliani choughc so. At in au­ backs down. Unrepentant, unapologetic, old-fash­ YU f.inances in eady 1980s, rescuing school from brink Judaism and feminism." Epiphany: Copenhagen, guration, rabbi sat by his side, ahead of Cardinal ioned liberal, champions rights for immigrants, of insolvency. Current firestorm roiling YU could 1980. At United Nations International Decade of O'Connor on protocol list, delivered invocation. Arro­ refugees, seeks full amnesty for undocumented work­ imperil tenure. Board members debate if talrnudic Women Conference, anti-Semitism, anti-Israelism gance, haughty scyle sometimes unnerving; in 70s, e rs, trots globe helping democratic labor movements principles are being tossed out window in return for spewing from feminist hate-mongers was so virulent, health uncertain, succession question looms. · take roor. But Seventh Avenue isshrinking,Labor Day gay rights. she felt marginalized as Jew in women's movement, parades are canceled, unions gee clobbered in fights just as she once felt marginalized as woman in like Nafra; membership, now 195,000,. £alls off every Judaism. Why can't others from old Ms. crowd see year. A,fter 44 years at ILGWU, did h.e succeed too beaury of Deborah, Golda? IRVING KRISTOL well? Or not well enough? RABBI DANIEL LAPIN Trotskyite-rumed-neo­ conservative godfather. •Mission Impossible? Steer generation of Jews Co-editor of Public Inter­ from crusades of Franklin Roosevelt to principles of LIENORE MILLER WILLIAM KRISTOL Ronald Reagan. Vehicle: Toward Tradition, new est magazine, fellow at American Enterprise group in suburban Seattle seeking to unire Jews, Liaison between Institute, living proof Professional contrari­ Christians, in rightist political agenda, welcome God Judaism and trade an, son of Irving, defend­ that ideas matter: His into town square, teach. Judeo-Christian ethic as unionism, president of translated in~o tax cuts, e r of Christian right. blueprint for conservative public policy, Messenger; Jewish Labor Commit· Impresario of Jewish budget cuts, deregula­ South African-born rabbi, 47, preaching Jews should tee since 1990. Advo­ tion, guillotining of conservative politics, dump monolithic liberalism, embrace conservative cate, resource center for social programs in Rea­ chairman of Project for political thought on economy, welfare, family, crim­ both labor, American gan years. Hubert the Republican Future. inal justice. Unveiling: November in Washington at Jewry, keeping historic Argues "watered-down standing-room-only conference for rainbow coali­ Humphrey Democrat in bonds intact. In best tra­ 1968, veered rightward suburban Judaism" of tion of right. Odds: Long. Rabbi is spellbinding, but d ition of labor street in face of counterculcure Reform movement fuels neo-cons, paleo-cons, long since on board. How do fighter, she monitors hedonism, New Left anti­ sky-high rare of inter­ you sell Democrats? trade-union rights in marriage, preaches, Americanism, Black Power anti-Semitism, ruination Arab coW1oies, coW1ter­ presaged by George McGovern, becoming Nixon "Secular humanism punching International today is greater threat to Republican in 1972, swaying more Jews than anyone Labor Organization for bothered to count. Famous quip that "neo-con is liber­ Jews than evangelical u=suE WEXNER posting quick-to-con­ Christianity." Stage- OGERRYLYNAM al mugged by reality" defined movement; shift of imel­ demn delegations to monitor trade-union rights of lecrual gravicy from New York to Washington followed managed "family values" campaign, atcack on culcur­ Billionaire benefactor, Palestinians in territories. As repr,esemative of labor own move to Potomac in 1987. One of last of great City al elire as Vice President Quayle's chief of staff; put molder of lay leadership, movement to Jewry, ofJewish community to unionism, lines from Talmud into vice presidential speeches, chairman of Wexner Her­ College inte.Ueccuals. His political apostasy still trig­ she publishes journal arguing talmudic teachings rec­ gers disgust on left. Son - William - also rises. turned Hoosier into champion of Israel. Tangled with itage Foundation. ognize sick pay, disability pay, right to prompt pay­ ~~~ah~tn ~o~.a~, wal~:d ?way un~~n_gl_e~, w~e_n ; _u_~p_ed ~u~e ~~~~k- ~f ment, limit hours of ~ork. ~~:~.~_I: -CIQ's ~ivil _rugh~s from crusades-of Franklirt Roosevelt to principles of LENORE MILLER '-'~l,illUl Ul ruuU\..JJllCl.· WILLIAM KRISTOL est magazine, fellow at Ronald Reagan. Vehicle: Toward T radition, new American Enterprise group in suburban Seattle seeking to unite Jews, Liaison between Institute, living proof Professional conc:rari­ Christians, in rightist political agenda, welcome God Judaism and trade that ideas matter: His an, son of Irving, defend­ into town square, teach. Judeo-Chdstian ethic as unionism, president of er of Christian right. cranslated into tax cuts; blueprint for conservative public policy. Messenger: Jewish Labor Commit­ budget cuts, deregula­ Impresario of Jewish South African-born rabbi, 47, preaching Jews should tee since 1990. Advo­ tion, guillotining of conservative politics, dump monolithic liberalism, embrace conservative cate, resource center for social programs in Rea­ chairman of Project for political thought on economy, welfare, family, crim­ both labor, American che Republican Future. gan years. Hubert inal justice. Unveiling: November in Washington at J ewry, keeping historic Humphrey Democrat in Argues "watered-down standing-room-only conference for rainbow coali­ bonds imacr. In best tra­ 1968, veered rightward suburban J udaism" of tion of right. Odds: Long. Rabbi is spellbinding, but dition of labor street Reform movement fuels in face of counterculture iJ -i neo-cons, paleo-cons, long since on board. How do fighter, she monitors hedorusm,NewLefranti- ' sky-high rate of inter­ you sell Democrats? trade-union rights in marriage, preaches, Americanism, Black Power anti-Semitism, ruination Arab countries, counter­ presaged by George McGovern, becoming Nixon "Secul ar humanism punching International today"is greater threat co Republican in 1972, swaying more Jews than anyone Labor Organization for bothered to count. Famous quip that "neo-con is liber­ Jews than evangelical LESLIE WEXNER posting quick-to-con­ Christianity." Stage- ocERRYLYNMI al mugged by reality" defined movement; shift of intel­ demn delegations to monitor trade-union rights of lectual gravity from New York to Washington followed managed "family values" campaign, attack on cultur­ Billionaire benefactor, Palestinians in territories. As representative of labor al elite as Vice President Quayle's chief of staff; put molder of lay leadership, own move to Potomac in 1987. One of last of great City movement to Jewry, of Jewish community to unionism, College intellectuals. His political apostasy still trig­ lines from Talmud into vice presiden rial speeches, chairman of WeJ01er Her­ she publishes journal arguing talmudic teachings rec­ turned Hoosier into champion of Israel. Tangled with itage Foundation. ognize sick pay, disability pay, right to prompt pay­ gers disgust on left. Son - William - also rises. Abraham Foxman, walked away unmangled, when Pumped huge chunk of ment, limit hours of work. Runs AFL-CIO's Civil Rights ADL ripped religious right for assaulting tolerance, forrune from Limited, Committee; pr-esident of 200,000-member Retail, pluralism: "Anti-Christian bigotry!" he roared, charg­ Victoria's Secret, Aber­ Wholesale and Department Store -Union since 1986. ing partisan politics driven not by Jewishness but by crombie & Fitch, Henri Modem Jewish leaders-born after Meany-Dubinsky­ JACK SHEINKMAN liberalism. Democratic establishment worries that, at Bendel into sponsorship Hillman era- look quizzically at Jewish Labor Com­ 41. he's am-active, palatable face of GOP Jewry. of courses, seminars, mittee: Historical anomaly? Is JLC still relevant today? Who was that Jewish retreats, two years of leader hauled in by the intensive studies in 23 police with the Rev. American cities for future Jesse Jackson? Union man in anti-union era, SAMMIE MOSHENBERG reformers of federated STEVEN GROSSMAN system. Why? Upon meet­ chairman of last union Liberal who knows how ro count, Washington oper­ ing aspiring, young Jew­ bank in America, unvar­ Seven-hundred-pound nished liberal in anti-lib­ ations directorfor National Council of Jewish Women. ish leaders, next gorilla of congressional Savvy coalition-builder with good relations on right, generation of Jewish communal stewards, he was "dis­ eral times, President of lobbyists, president of Amalgamated Clothing helped stage-manage fight for Religious Restoration mayed by minimal 1evel" of their Jewish knowledge. Set American Israel Public out to remedy that by endowing education, taking place ,,a')d:.T..l'xt,il,e, Wo,;ke,;s Act, "Yarmulke-in-the-Army" act, litany of civil Affairs Committee since Uruon since 1987, past rights, social justice acts. Latest epic battle: killing alongside world-class philanthropists Bronfmans, Tis­ 1992. Accession marked ches, Reichmans, Lauders, Perelmans, Safras. president of Jewish p roposals from federal immigration commission for sea change: In Reagan­ Labor Committee. Bat- national ID cards for 250 million Americans. Modus B ush-Likud era, Aipac tler for civil rights, work- , ·-- operandi: Walks into Orthodox Union, seeks support headed by wealthy ers' rights, free trade PACIIBRos. . NY for abortion resolution, sells it as women's health-care NORMAN PODHORElZ Republican business­ unions abroad; comfortable on barricades: Arrest with resolution, walks out with support. But what happens men friendly with Jesse Jackson came during old-style sit-in against co last of old-line liberals and their social action agen­ Likud, hawkish; but in unfair labor laws at National Labor Relations Board. das after GOP conQuest of Capitol Hill? Nee-conservative idea factory, Reagan.ice ideol­ Clinton-Labor era, prexy Doubles as banker, but not of pin-striped variety. llis ogist, editor of Commen­ is wealthy Democratic Amalgamated Bank of New York has unique sidelight, tary magazine since businessman more sim- ---- _ __ low-interest lending to immigrant, unionized taxi patico with Labor, GAYEHll.SENRATHOl9'12 drivers, many of them Russian Jews. ACTWU, his 1960. Transformed dovish. Former chairman of Massachuserrs Democrat­ NEALSHER mainstream journal - home since 1953, is shrinking; 280,000 members when ic Party, vice chairman of National Jewish Democrat­ published by centrist he took over, 226,000 today. When wW it merge with ic Council, steered Aipac leftward, gung-ho on peace Avenger of Shoah­ American Jewish Com­ ILGWU? · process, supported Israeli policies some Aipac [und­ rumed-pro-Israel-lobby­ mittee - into neo-con- ,ng-king. Director of raisers, board members, senators, distttist. 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11 MORTON MANDEL DISCUSSES PRAGMATISM, OBLIGATION AND THE VALUE OF TIME.

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HEN YOU HAVE MONEY, IT'S EASY TO GIVE a major way in more than a score of organi.za­ money," says Morton Mandel, "but tions, often heading or founding them. Ask him we all have the same amount of time." why he has made service to the community Mort Mandel is chjef executive and such an important part of his life and the 73- co-founder of Premier Industrial Corp., the year-old businessman gives you a three-legged Fortune 500 djstributor of electronic and elec­ answer involving the legacy of western culture, trical parts, and indus trial mamtenance and the pragmatism of attracting capable employ­ repair products. Mort and his brothers Jack ees and the process of self-development. and Joseph co-founded Premier -which today "I think people who get a familiarity with has 4,300 employees worldwide - in 1940. He the great ideas that have been developed and and his family have long been among the most explored through the centuries have to find generous supporters of charitable endeavors some way to relate to a larger society," Mandel in Cleveland, yet Mandel maintains that those begins. "Certainly among the people I associ­ contributions are simply part of being a good ate with there is this sense of obligation grow­ citizen. And not even the most important part. ing out of the tradition of western civiJJzation "We are alJ equal when it comes to giving and religious background." time," he says. "It's harder to give time.· Altruism, though, is only part of the motiva­ For the past 30 years, Mandel estimates that tion Mandel sees for community service. "It he has given an average of 25 percent of his can also be enlightened self-interest," he says. time to community work. He has been active in "The kind of people I want to have working at

18 FEBRUARY 1 995 INSID[ BU SI N ESS Mort Mandel On Saying No

"How do I say no' Very easily, and it's easier today than it used to be, especially when it comes lO my Lime. If I waste money, l can replace it. lf I waste a minute, it' s gone forever. So I say no very easily on a priority basis. I have kind ofa grid in my head that I lay an invitation against, and if the opportu­ nity measures out to have a low potemial yie ld, I say no. I won't take on assign­ ments that don't optimize my time, readiness and experience. That's

ClEVElAND MAGAZ I NE I N SIDE B U S IN CSS 19 MORTON MANDEL Premier want to live in a community learn." "I'm a founder. I like to produce . with strong resources - educational, The values which led Mandel to change. There are a lot of places medical, cultural. They want to live in community service were learned long where I have seen a vacuum and have a community that's whole, or as before his association with United caused a process to begin or to be whole as one can make it.• Way. He was raised during the De­ completed, leading to the creation of Finally for Mandel, there is person­ pression, and money was always a thriving institution. I'm proud of al growth to be gained from commu­ tight. that.· nity service. "Involvement in volun­ "My parents were very modest in Some of those places indude Mid­ teer activities is a very important terms of income,· he remembers, town Corridor, Operation Move, learning experience, and its Cleanland, Cleveland Tomor­ lessons can be brought to bear in Mort Mandel On Consensus row, the Center for Non-Profit the business environment," he Management and the Mandel explains. "In the volunteer com­ "We govern by consensus at Premier. We School of Applied Social Sci­ have a group process. I don't mean that it munity, you have other volun­ ences, That last organization is takes a meeting to get everything and any­ teers sitting around the table. particularly revealing about how You don't have hiera.rchical thing done. But when it comes to major Mandel thinks and operates in power. If you are chairman of thrusts, I want a consensus. the volunteer sector. the board of United Way, for "If the disagreement is nine for and one "We have given substantial example, which I know I was, it against, I have consensus. If it's eight for sums of money to the s.ocial is not the same as being chair­ and two against, I have consensus. So now work school at Case Western man of the board at Premier. I let's say it's six to four or five to four, it's Reserve - our name's on it - and know I speak with a voice at not consensus and I don't do it. If I've got a we did it because we concluded least slightly louder than any­ five to four, the situation is screaming at me. a long time ago that investing in body else's around the Premier I do not in my business ever go with a deci­ one social worker is better than table. At United Way I didn't. I sion that's five to four. helping 10 families," he was maybe first among equals. I "If I don't have a consensus in favor of explains. "It's not that we did not govern by who I was. In action, I don't do it. But you have to under­ wouldn't like to do both, but stand what consensus is. Consensus isn 't the volunteer sector, you govern invest iin a social worker and by consensus. the agreement of everybody. It's the agree­ you 've got a 25- to 35-year per­ "That's become an important ment of a strong majority." son who is out there fixing our style element at Premier," he larger society. We've tried to continues. "We like making decisions "but I grew up in a privileged envi­ look at things in that macro kind of by consensus. The volunteer commu­ ronment because they stood for way and make moves that would nity is where I learned how to things and taught me to stand for strengthen a process. That makes it achieve consensus. and it's where them. Their values still hold water very important to invest in people, many of our managers at Premier with me. The response of their chil­ which means social work education hav,e learned it and continue to learn dren to ,communal needs would make was a greater priority than simply it.· them very proud, and not just helping one, or 10, or however many Mandel was in his early 30s and because we've given money. That families.· just beginning his heavy involvement would not impress them, particularly The School of Applied Social Sci­ in United Way when he was taught my mother. What would impress her ences wiU certainly be a part of the the meaning of consensus by a man is the work I have done, the Sundays, Mandel legacy, but w hen asked how w ho was something of a mentor to the Saturdays and evenings.• and for what he would like to be him. For Mandel, like many other cop remembered," Mandel's response is ""I was in the Unit Plan, a small business leaders, the satisfaction conceptual. business division of United Way, and derived from his community service "I hope I have been a catalyst - a had just taken over the chair from a has grown over the years. And that's catalyst for systemic change, for guy named George Baldwin, a lawyer. because what he is able to accom­ improving our society, and that [the He came to the first meeting I plish has grown. family] will be remembered as having chaired, and when the meeting was "It's like golf," he explains. "Golf is cared. That we tried to build institu­ over said, 'There were some wonder­ more fun when you shoot 70 than tions necessary for a dynamic, ful decisions, some great conclusions 120. There is no question my impact healthy and thriving community. That for United Way. But you know, it today is 20 times what it was when I the notion of community was very would have been a lot better if when was 30 years old. When it comes to important to us and we worked to those people left the meeting they community work, I'm a low handi­ support it. That we tried to strength­ had thought those ideas were theirs capper now. I've got the shots. My en the community.· • instead of just yours.' I have never for­ Rolodex is 50 times bigger than it was David Patterson,former commu­ gotten what he said. It changed my when I was 30, and I know how to nications director ofthe Cleveland life-how I think about getting things use it.• Foundation, has owned a smallpub­ done. No matter how wonderful an Today, Mandel uses that Rolodex lishing company and is a consultant idea is, you're dead if the group to launch new projects and tip the to nonprofits and small businesses. involved doesn't feel ownership for balance in favor of ideas he deems He has w -ritten extensively about it. That was an important lesson to worthy. Describing himself he says, business in Cleveland.

20 H BRUARY 1995 INSIDE BUSINESS C 6-,t,.t,U..1 v YOU COUW SAY 'lllATnfE MANDEi. FAMILY / fo1tune, worth well over $1 billion today, is built on nuts and bolts. Actually, Pre­ mier Industrial, in which the Mand els have a controlling 62% stake, distributes more than 200,000 parts, from electrical and electronic components to automo­ tive specialty products, fasteners and fire-fighting components, as well as in­ dustrial lubricants and chemicals. «God is in the details," Mort Mandel likes to say. He has been Premier's CEO since 1958 and at 73 he habitually jogs up tl1e three flights of stairs to ihis office. Unremitting devotion to every "It's really right to kill yourself for your cus­ little iliing that could please his cus­ tomers or keep tight control on costs, tomers," says Mort Mandel of Premier Industrial. he says, is the strategy that has brought success to Premier and to the Mandels by Lore Croghan of Cleveland. Early on, the Mandel brothers de­ cided to go after high-margin niches in the parts-distribution business and to make themselves indispensable to cus­ tomers through superior service. Mort puts it a bit more forcefully: "Deeply built into this organization is the notion that it's really right to kill yourself for your customers, that that's U1e standard. ' not the exception." At Premier, this strategy means of­ fering hard-to-find _parts that other dis­ tributors won't keep in stock. It means superlast delivery, usually overnight but within just a few hours if ilie customer has an emergency. It means virtually never sending an order late-and phon­ ing to apologize to the customer before he can call to complain if something does go wrong. For a look at how U1e people at Pre­ mier manage details, pay a visit to Newark Electronics. It's the largest of the four business divisions in Premier's electronics group, which together gen­ erated $534 million in operating rev­ enues and $116 million in operating profit in fiscal (May) 1994. Newark sells its wares through a cat­ alog iliat is the ne plus ultra of catalogs. It weighs almost four pounds and ha!> more than 1,500 pages filled with pic­ tures and technical descriptions of more tllan 120,000 products from more than 285 manufacturers. The catalog gets mailed to 1 million

Joe, Mort and Jack Mandel of Premier Industrial

FW ~IAR("JI 1S. ,,~, , •12 _, people over the course of its 18-to-24- these products to static electricity, work­ pleases Newark management because it month life cycle, says Jim Spotz, a vice ers who handle them wear special isn't any more expensive to use than president Then a new version is printed bracelets attached by cords to rubber peanuts and it allows the packing line to with revised prices and product lines, floor mats on which they stand. Their move just as fast, says Spotz. This is the and parts from manufacturers that have workstations are also 01.1tfitted with ion­ kind of solution that Newark likes best recently joined the lineup. izers that reduce the static in the sur­ "There's a high attention to detail of fill­ Being the attentive-to-detail company rounding air. In addition, they wrap the ing the customer need but also doing it that it is, Newark doesn't just wait for sensitive products in static-shield bags profitably," Spotz says. "And it shows the people to call in, catalog in hand, oo make and cover the packaging with warning two can be married up." their orders. Its telemarketers also labels so recipients lmow to handle and The time is <:oming when the myriad phone regular customers to check up on store them with care. of finely managed details will no longer their needs. The shipping boxes in which the be Mort Mandel's concern. He Newark's products are not big-ticket products are de- is preparing for the day when items. They're just hard to locate. And there will no longer be any customers usually don't buy , Mandels working at Premier, very much of anything at any which the family founded one time. The average order nearly 55 years ago. rings in at only $150, Spotz Don't misunderstand. says. But thousands and thou- ~ No hostile board or irate in­ sands of orders are processed vestors are saying they everyday. think the Mandels have To handle the huge order lost the energy and ability volume efficiently, in early 1991 to lead. Far from it It's the company built an ultramod­ just that there aren't any ern, $12 million, 180,()00.square­ younger Mandels com­ foot distribution center in Gaffney, ing up the ranks to as­ S.C., 50 miles oouthwest of Char­ sume Mort's mantle of lotte. It's right off Interstate 85, the power. That was a de­ Dixieland artery that runs down to cision Mort made with Atlanta. Gaffney has substantially low­ his brothers Joe and ered Newark's cost of delivering orders, Jack at the outset Oack, Spotz says. The distn"bution center is de­ 82, and Joe, 80, retired signed with a flow system like a manu­ from daily duties as facturing plant's that routes products ef­ company officers about ficiently and breaks down the job of a decade ago but still packing an order into narrow, specific serve as board mem­ tasks perfonned by different groups of bers. Jack is chainnan workers. So orders get filled faster at of the finance commit­ lower labor costs. The reason the tee, and Joe is chainnan Gaffney facility is more efficient than of the executive com­ Newark's decadeS-Old distribution cen­ mittee. The two partic­ ter in Chicago is that at Gaffney, the ipate in every major work flow-through was designed first company decision.) and the building to house it was de­ Back in the late signed afterward, Spotz says. Ifyou take 1950s, when they were a vacant building and put a distribution livered are cushioned with styrofoam planning to take Premier public, the Man­ center inside it, invariably there's a pil­ "peanuts" that are pink to indicate they del brothers decided the best way to at­ lar in the wrong place or the ceilings are are antistatic. All the packing peanuts in tract topflight talent was to nix nei))Otism. too low-some architectural impediment the Gaffney plant are the pink kind, so None of management's kids, spouses or gets in the way of efficiency. packers don't have to take time out to siblings would be allowed on board. One key to smooth, swift, accurate choose between regular and antistatic "We wanted to build a meritocracy," distribution is the computer system, peanuts for each box they handle. Mort says. He and his broiliers felt it which directs the actions of the people Customers who object to styrofoam would be easier to convince employees picking and packing the products. The because it's bad for the environment get they could truly rise by merit if they other key is what Mort preaches: an ob­ crumpled brown paper in their ship­ didn't have to clamber over manage­ sessive level of detail. Consider, for ex­ ments instead. It too is antistatic. ment's family members on the way up. ample, the careful handling of static-sen­ The crumpled paper pleases envi­ With typical forthrightness, Mort dis­ sitive parts that go into computers. ronmentally conscious customers be­ cussed his decision with his three chil­ To minimize tl1e chance of exposing cause if s recycled. At the same time, it dren when they were in their early teens.

fW MARCH 28. 1995 45 "I didn't want it to be anything that might company's total sales. Typical customers rule against ordering plane tickets for indicate rejection," he says. He told them are in repair and maintenance, with a few business trips less than two weeks in ad­ he would be a ready and willing partner engineers who are building prototypes vance, so travelers can get the cheapest if they needed him to make a finan.cial tossed in. The other 28% of sales comes tickets possible, says Assistant Vice Pres­ investment to further their careers. from Premier's general products division, ident Bill Evanson. "Nothing is too small His son, Tom, took him up on the of­ which offers an array of goods that in­ to challenge," says Vice President fer. ln 1988, after years of building his ca­ cludes auto parts, industrial lubricants, Howard Frank. reer in radio, Tom bought Rubber City electrical cord and cable This penny-pinching would get Radio Group with his dad as an investor. and tiresome for the staff were it not for 111e younger man is president and the fact that so many officers and principal shareholder of the group, employees are stockholders. "You which operates three radio stations in won't find gold-plated hardware" Akron, Ohio. Tom, 39, says things around Premier, says Vice Chair- have turned out great He was never man Phil Sims, who has been at interested in work,ing in his father's the company almost 39 years. business, which he found boring. uour net worths are riding on As for the other Mandel children, the line." Premier's austere Mort's two daughil:ers and Joe's two headquarters buildings are daughters stayed home to raise kids. brightened only with framed With the help ofboard members and art posters that Mort selects long-standing close advisers, Mort and himself. his brothers have picked a date for All of this makes Premier Mort's retirement Mort won't say when a reliable money-maker. The that will be or who will step into his company has delivered shoes. These remain secrets for now to record earnings in 33 of its all but the planners. But he talks readily 35 years as a public com- about how momentous the transition will pany. And this fiscal year be to him. "The biggest test I'm going should be the 34th record to have to pass is how well my succes­ setter, Sims says. sor does," Mort says. "And you don't Per-share earnings growth know for five years." has accelerated to 15% for the When Mort took over as CEO, he first half of fiscal 1995, almost had nearly two decades of experience at double the 8% growth of fiscal Premier, which he and his brothers 1994. Mort says the company founded in 1940. Then 18 years old, he should be able to sustain that had dropped out of Western Reserve pace for the year as a whole. University (now part of Case Western Going forward, Premier's Reserve University), pooled $900 with earnings should enjoy a com­ Joe and Jack and bought the assets of poWld annual growth rate of 11% Uncle Jacob Mandel's defunct auto-parts at least through the end of the business. Another uncle, Conrad Man­ decade, says Ahhishek Gami, an del, gave them a boost by sending them analyst at Duff & Phelps in $3.,000 worth of auto parts on credit from Chicago. He expects $1.25 a his auto-parts distributorship in Chicago. share this fiscal year, versus TI1e parts anived in shiny yellow boxes $1.10 for fiscal 1994, and $1.45 with Conrad's trade name "Premier" for fiscal 1996. stamped in blue. With his permission, Premier should continue to they took the name for their company. grow because it has no nation­ World War II was tough on the fledg­ wide competitors in the repair ling business, because many of the raw firefighting equipmenL and maintenance market (Other big na­ materials for auto parts were diverted to As a matter of policy, Premier makes tional electtonics distributors like Avnet military use. Businesses such as Premier only 10% of the products it sells, so it ties and Arrow cater to the original equip­ survived partly by selling make-do parts. up most of its capital in inventory rather ment market and don't maintain large in­ For example, Mort says, for steel car than in building manufacturing plants. ventories of older or less frequently grills they substituted wooden grills Conservative money management is asked-for parts.) Gami has a 12-mo,nth painted silver. a watchword. Long-term debt is a scant price target of 27 on the stock, which re­ In the 1960s, Premier acquired its way $6.5 million, less than 2% of the com­ cently traded aroumd 23'12, 19 times esti­ into electronics distribution. Today, its pany's total capitalization. Careful con­ mated fiscal 1995 earnings. electronics division generates 72:% of the trol of expenses includes things like a To keep a close eye on Premier's mo-

48 fW MARCH 2S. 1995 mentum, Mandel spends half his work The M:andels seek to bring about so­ Cleveland Tomorrow's effort to create time traveling to company outposts. Out cial change through specific, focused Neighborhood Progress Inc., which in the field, he sometimes calls on cus­ programs. Mort's favorite causes include raises and allocates money for neigh­ tomers with sales reps, who introduce center-city neighborhood renewal, high­ borhood redevelopment rum as "Mort Mandel from Cleveland." er education, professional leadership de­ "There are other companies in town That way, he says, he can ask the com­ velopment and the Jewish community. that have bigger revenue, but Premier is pany's customers questions and get can­ Accordingly, Mort founded Mic!Town always in the top 10 in giving, and always did answers. Corridor to rehabilitate the neighborhood one of the first to write the check," says Employees concede that it is nolt al­ around Premier's Euclid Avenue head­ Joe Roman, Cleveland Tomorrow's ex­ ways easy to work for a demanding boss quarters, which deteriorated in the early ecutive director. like Mort. "He is a taskmaster," Spotz 1980s. The organiza- The Mandels are also financial :sup­ says. "There are some days you want to porters of Case Western Reserve Uni­ reach across the table and strangle versity, where the Mandel School ofA{r him, but that's probably what makes a ·\ \ plied Social Sciences is named after good CEO too. Because when you calm them. The school, which offers advanced down and you sit back, you say, 'If I ' degrees in social work, has an avowed were CEO, I'd probably do exactly the mission of promoting social justice. One same thing.' He pushes us to the edge ,of its programs, the Mandel Center for of the envelope." Nonprofit Organizations, provides man- Mort is equally intense about his de­ agement training for executives of non­ votion to philanthropy. For 30 years now, profit entities. he has devoted 25% of his time to civic Mort is an inspiration to Darlyne and philanthropic activities, he says. Bailey, the dean of the social sciences "Sometimes we see people in the school. "He's a very bright man who waning years of their lives decide all of a puts his bright ideas out in a very sudden to become community-in­ simple way," :she says. "He's been volved-with Mort, it's an absolutely in­ around this world in ways that I tegral part of his life," says Chris John­ have yet to be, partly because of his son, the executive director of MidTown age. There's a lot for me to learn Corridor, a community development or­ from and with him." ganization Mort launched 13 years ago. In Israel, Mort is chairman of a Mort learned about generosity from ''When our values were Ministry of Education project that his mother, who had no money to speak being formed, we under­ provides advanced training for the of but always managed to take care of leaders of the country's educational other people. She'd buy a dress for stood that helping some­ system. And he supports Jewish someone who was getting married, or body who's hurting is part cultural education in the U.S. hand over cash to clear up someone Mort says he has gained as else's unpaid bills. "When our values of what you do if you can,"' much from his philanthropic work were being fonned, we understood that Mort says. ''I don't want to as he has given. "I learned to influ­ helping somebody who's hurting is part ence people Ito do things because of what you do if you can," Mort says. "I sound corny, but I believe they believed in it, because they don't want to sound corny, but I believe do my brothers." thought it was right, not because I that, as do my brothers.'' that, as was the chair and therefore I had The three men back that belief with the absolute power," he says. "All their personal wealth. They plan to leave tion has gone a long way toward turning of those skills shaped me in the way I much of their approximately $1.2 billion the neighborhood around by attracting run my job. I get consensus." worth of Premier stock to a network of 250 member businesses that have poured Philanthropy has been his hobby, tak­ family foundations when they die. $325 million into the area and saved or ing the place of sports and other diver­ Again, do not misunderstand. Mort created 4,000 jobs. Yet Mort's support sions. "Family, work and the work that I is not philosophically opposed to pass­ doesn't slacken. "He continues to chal­ do in the philanthropic area-they're ing on wealth to his heirs. He has put lenge and make you look for the next sort of the cornerstones with me," he about 2.2 million of his Premier shares, step, and that's important-there's a lot says. "I feel successful in all three. And currently worth around $52 million, into more to do," says Mic!Town 's Johnson. that's what gives me my own sense of trusts for his family members. But the Mort was also a founder of Cleveland well-being, I guess." rest is earmarked for a higher purpose: Tomorrow, an organization that deploys To some, it may seem that being "We've made so much money, based on CEOs to work on the city's behalf in re­ Mort Mandel would be exhausting. To my standards, thai!: it's just a great op­ building Cleveland by raising venture Mort, however, it has been marvelous portunity for us to improve the world," capital and encouraging investment in fun. "I've had a ball," he says. "The world Mort says. the city. 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.... ------·------, MORTON MANDEL: FAMILY AND PHILANTHROPY alk to Morton Mandel you'r!;? around 10 years old, you're about his personal life or who you're gonna be." his business. Talk to him So, who is this Morton Mandei, about politics or the · many of whose qualities were ab­ money he gives to institutions and sorbed at such a tender age? With causes from Cleveland's inner city · just a little thought, he can lay out to the State of Israel. ·Talk to him a list of values that he says he ab- about any of these things and he'll sorbed from his parents "without steer the conversation back to the ever knowing that's what I was subject that seems to preoccupy doing." him: family, and the qualities it He counts the list on his fingers. mysteriously be- "You got respect for stows on people your neighbor," he as they m1:1ture. For this says. "You got hon- In fact, Mandel, esty, kindness, that chairman of Pre- rags-to-riches every person has a mier Industrial _ protagonist, responsibility for Corp., the more- every other · person. t h a n - $ 8 O o - SUCCeSS is literally There's this respon- m i lli on-a-ye a r 'relat·1ve'. sibility you have to manufacturing help people who are and distribution ----·------hurting," he flips company that he and brothers Joe another finger. "There's a deep and Jack founded here in 1940, can commitment to justice." shuffle almost any serious question Many in town agree that those so the answer relates .to his child- genuinely are values they've wit- hood. · · nessed in Mandel. For one thing, he The reason is simple, he main­ and his brothers, staggeringly suc­ tains. His childhood days - back cessful in business, have been when he, his brothers and parents ·among Clev_eland's most generous Samuel and Rose lived together on . givers. Years ago, they formed Cleveland's East Side - was the Mandel Associated Foundation to critical period during which he ab­ help them find good uses for the ex­ sorbed just about everything that tra money their company earned :would carry him through the next them. · six decades-plus of his' life. Those "It's a very thoughtful process," were the days that made him and he explains. "It's taken lots of con­ his brothers among the Top 10 versation and lots of self-examina­ weathiest people in town. tion." There's even a full-time staff "Hey, I really believe that," says of three that investigates who and the fit and well-preserved what might become recipients . of 73-year-old with an exaggerated this philanthropy. shrug. "People learn all their val­ What the foundation gives ues by the time they're 10 or 11. Oh, away, of course, is big chunks of you learn skills after that. But the fortune that the Mandels have what I'm saying is, by the time Continued on page 12

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Mandel gives time, too. He esti.­ Continuedfrompdge JO mates that, since his 30s, he has put made distrib~ting and manufa~tur~ a quarter of his 60- to-65-hour work ing auto parts, electronic compo- week into what he calls communal nents ·: mach1ne lubricants, brass causes. ·.. 1 think my business sense fireh~se nozzles and other fittings. has made me a better communal They've given away millions of dol- leader," he says, "and my commu_­ lars, all very methodically. nal involvement has made me a He won't reveal how much, but better business leader." the family's philanthropy, Mandel M·andel admits to another angle says, "consists of two piles." Recip- in his philanthropy. "It's a real an-. ients of the first include higher ed- gle too " he smiles. "This is how I ucational institutions like Case add me~ning to my life. That's the Western · Reserve University, angle. No question about it. I which boast& the Manciel School of wouldn't feel the same about my­ Applied Social Sciences. Giving of self without that. And l attribute so this sort, Mandel believes, can help much of that to the way I was cultivate leaders who'll make a dif- brought up. · ference in the world. "I was programmed," he says. In addition, the fin:it category fo- "And I benefit from that, from my .cuses on neighborhood renewal, . parents' having programmed me to most . c,onspicuously along Cleve- = care." Hence, Mandel tips the con- . land's Midtown, Corridor. Mandel ve'rsation back to his upbringing, to took it on as a special project in the family. · · early 1980s, hopin'g to reverse the area's decline from its one-time : ALL IN THE FAMILY grandeur to the broken ruin it had Mandel refers to his family as become. Now, the area houses ren­ having beep rich, but he insists on ovated buildings and several new enclosing ''rich" i~. quotat_ion businesses, · including Pierre's Ice marks. In fact, the Mandels' stan­ Cream. dard of living during his boyhood Then there's the second cat­ in the '30s was considerably below egory. ·"Wfre com'.!'llitted to being a . middle class. And that, Mandel generous supporter of communal speculates, is what urged him and causes" he says. "The United Way, his brothers to choose careers in a: ne~·: building for vocational business, where they col).ld make guidance services, ·the museums lots ofm oney. and cultural. assets of Cleveland. "If I'd grown up in a middle­ We have a responsibility to be. a class family, I'm sure I would have good citizen . in the community' · been· a social worker," he says at both Premier and the Mandels.'' one point, later saying he might have been a politician. "But I grew up in a poor family, so I went into Mandel also has an interesting . ·busin~ss to make ·money." take on his own children, two daughfers and a son. Pre~er's Maridel's father, an accountant, three founding brothers .decided was too ill during most of Morton's early that they wouldn't WiE:ave . young l.ife to work and di~d in 1942. . their family lives any further mto , ·His mother lived another 16 year~. the business than they already · · long enough to get a glim~se of her were. Jack's, Joe's and Morton's three sons' success. . children would -not work at Pre- Mandel not only credits many of mier. . · his values to his early family life, "There certainly are c·ompanies he also acknowledges that being a. that have gone the other way,'_' Jew, not far removed from the Mandel says. "Ford Motor Co. Europe of Ado]ph H_itler, helped comes to mind. But we wanted Pre­ · forge many of his views and atti­ mier to·.be ·a meritocracy. People tudes. Among the causes about . would advance on t,heir merit,,not which he feels most strongly are -because their name was Mandel." .those benefiting the State of Isreal Mandel characterizes his - not uncritically, but with no am­ . daughters , as full-time mothers bivalence. .· · now. His son, Tom, runs Rubber_ · "'Look," he says. "I had family City Radio Group and its Akron FM that was wiped out, murd~red, ip radio stations, WAKR-AM, WON~­ World War II by the Nazis. I know FM and WQMX-FM, which Morton that. I grew up with that. I was _a_n· bought last year. adtilt .already wp.en tha_t happen~d. 1 · Meanwhile, under Mandel's . "How could I not respond?" he. ' leadership, Premier just complet_ed says. ''How could anyone Jewish · a stunning business year. It m· not i:espond, anyon~ who lost rela­ .creased net earnings by 16.percent tives to the Holocaust?" with a het _profit after taxes of $108 Nevertlietless, Mandel, who ei­ million. Those certainly are num­ .tablished the Mandel Institute ofls­ bers that any businessman could real· with ·liis brothers, ·does see crow about, if he had the urge. fault in the nation. : '.'I don't like But Mande1, who says he every single thing this new country learned what it means to be a suc­ , is doing; but," he says, pausing, cess a man, a mensch, simply by . then smiling, "give them a couple iiv{r{g ·under the same roof with his hundred year~ and I. think -they'll parents prefers to crow about.his be m_ore· civil~e~. .~- .:;>- . . , family. · . "It's like ··your kids,"-he ·adds. ·''Do' you love everything they do? Free-lance writer Frank B~n._­ No. But do you still love your kids? tayou is the former managing edz­ s'e"~.Tti~y-,-r~ ~~tually ex~1us-ive.·;, tor pf Cleveland Magazine. • Mandel's Millions to Give Jewish Mandate to Hebrew U. Zuckerman Likely to Join Board AmidD ebate .on Schoors Direction fOl<\A>nP,P FORWARD STAFF Vo/. CH) No 31 239 JERUSALEM - An American elect real estate mogul Mortimer Hebrew University mirrors a similar I / millionaire is pumping millions of Zuckerman as chairman, replacing debate within American academia as :::rlAne 't Iq9 9 dollars into an effort to restore Alex Grass. to whether Jewish studies depart­ I Hebrew University's Jewish charac­ The emerging debate here about ments should retain their secular and ter and mandate - an effort that the Jewish mission of .Hebrew Uni­ academic character or take a more some here are resisting. versity echoes a general tension with­ activist approach toward furthering Philanthropist Morton Mandel, in Israeli society aboutwhether Israel Jewish continuity and engagement. who is based at Cleveland, Ohio, should move in the direction of being "My chief concern is not whether created the Mandel Center for Jew­ a state of its citizens rather than the we are reaching out to the Jews of ish Continuity last year with an $11 state of the Jews. At Hebrew Univer­ Denver but how to keep this place million pledge to restore the Jew­ sity's 1925 inauguration ceremony, alive," the chairman of the Insti.tute ish mandate of Hebrew University the poet Chaim Bialik haiJed the of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew here. That mandate will be among beginning of a university for the Jew­ University, Ezra Mendelsohn, said; the matters discussed when the ish people. Since then, the university Mr. Mendelsohn cautioned against university's board of governors has strayed from that mission while efforts to "develop tl1e university of gathers heretihis month. At that beefing up its secular academic cre­ the Jewish people at ilie expense of meeting, the board is expected to dentials. The struggle for the soul of Please tum to Page 2 I _ _ Mandel's Millions Give Jewish Mandate to Hebrew University

Co11tinued from Page 1 issues that are facing Jewish life in The d ean of the faculty of Porath. The vision of a "universi­ having a university for Israel." The Israel [and the Diaspora] ... h ow humanities at Hebrew University, ty of t he Jewish people" is an university should focus on attract­ can the Hebr ew U n ivers ity Yair Zakovitch, who is working in "empty slogan," Mr. Porath said, ing more Arab students, he said, become more engaged?" coordination with the Mandel Cen­ adding, "I reject it in toto .... A adding, "Israel isn't only Jews." The Mandel Center strives to ter, s,aid that in the past, "the uni­ university [should h ave] no ideo­ While 99% of the world's Jews bridge the gap between Hebrew versity did not do e nough and did logical mission." lived in the Diaspora when Bialik University's resources, includi ng not care enou gh about what's It's "marvelous" when donors made his rousing speech, "Since "several hundred" faculty mem­ being done beyond the walls of the want to give money to the univer­ then, something has happened. We bers whose work incorporates Jew­ ivory tower." Mr. Zakovitch said sity, but they should consider giv­ have a state and a population of... 6 ish studies ·and the needs of the he hopes the university will spark ing money to efforts like million," Mr. Mendelsohn said. He world Jewish community. "I think a more widespread revival of Jew­ advancing scientific research, Mr. said, howev~r, that he supports that the Mandel Center in a certain ish textual study, which Israel's Porath said. "I don't think those efforts to bring foreign students to sense signals a kind of shifting gear secular elements - Mr. Zakovitch who contribute money should Hebrew University - both Jews in the university, and a sense that himself is secular - largely dis­ decide the future of the universi­ and non-Jews - and added, "If Mr. the university nee ds to be more carde d in the past 30 years. "It's ty ....To change the character of Mandel wants to give a billion dol­ proactive and engaged in Jewish dear that we as a university... will the university in order to satisfy lars lto a university program of his life," Mr. Hoffmann said. become more and more involved in the private appetites or tastes of choice], I'm all in favor of it." To that end, the Mandel Center the lives of Jews all over the world. donors? No. We have never done From its inception, Hebrew Uni­ is creating a four-year master's We feel it's our mission, and we it. I hope we [will] never dQ it," Mr. versity was intended as more than degree program, in which top stu­ feel we can deliver," he said. Porath said. He added that he just another ivory tower to edu­ dents will be recruited for training Not every one agrees. As in doubts that the new teacher-train­ cate its population, the director of as Bible and Jewish studies teach­ America, some here argue that ing institute will succeed . in the Mandel Center for Jewish Con­ ers in the Israeli school system. activist approaches undermine recruiting the creme de la creme tinuity, Alan Hoffmann, said. Also on the agenda is a program to academic integrity. And as in of students to train as Jewish stud­ "There was always ... an additional send Hebrew University profes­ Israeli political life, there are ques­ ies educators, since "the graduates strand in the mission. Beyond sors to America, where they will tions about whether the country of computer science and business being a gc'eat'general university, it both teach college classes and ·and its institutions should strive to _administration:.: ge,t much-nigher.,1 would also be what they called the serve as emissaries in Jewish com­ be and do more than their c0t.lnter- incdme arfd salarie~." 'University of the Jewish People."' munities. In a pilot project, a set of parts in other areas of the world. In recent years, Mr. Hoffmann pamphlets has been printed bear­ "For me, [Hebrew University) said, the university's leaders have ing the perspectives of professors is a modern, ordinary academic begun to ask themselves, «Given on the Torah portion of the week. If institution in the Western, liberal, the huge assets that we have in the project is adopted, the pam­ modern tradition," said a profes­ Judaica.. . on the one side, and on phlets will be distributed among sor emeritus of Middle Eastern the other side given these critical the student body and beyond. and Islamic Studies, Yehoshua Mandel Foundation

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After being summoned out of retirement to help rejuvenate Premier Farnell, Morton Mandel has once again stepped beyond the CEO role he knows so well into one that is familiar and fulfilling.

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rofit or philanthropy, what's it be my age and CEO ofa publicly held com­ ithin months of the 1996 going to be? Or can a guy handle pany.• Quickly, th-ough, he adds, "Even merger of Cleveland-based Pboth? For decades, those ques­ though I think I'm as good as lever was. n W Premier Industrial and Farnell, tions have been central for Morton L. The reason he's willing to concede at bad news began roiling to the surface. Mandel, a man whose name reminds all to age has nothing to do with his ener­ Quickly it became clear that what the Northeast Ohioans as much of his and gy level. Trim and fit, Mandel claims to be deal's architects had hoped would bring his siblings' charitable giving as of their as full of juice as he was when the broth­ an economy ofscale and a high level of astute busiiness acumen - which earned ers started Premier Industtial Corp. Fami­ Al\glo-.American synergy to the industry them a fortune. ly and business associates fervently sup­ was turning into an ugly mess. How big a fortune? Forbes magazine port him. It's more his sense ofthe way First, Faro.ell's Briltish shareholders has featured the Mandels - as recently as shareholders might respond. "It Just does­ staged a near revolt over the $2.8 billion October 1998 - as among the 50 wealthi­ n 't look right to me, to be 100 years old then-CEO Howard Poulson paid for P.re­ est J'.amilies in the United Sta.tes. Beyond and CEO ofa publicly held company in mier. And the deal went downhill from that, the Foundation Center, which tracks which people have invested their there. Within two years sales had philanthropic institutions, considers them money.• He rolls his eyes at this exaggera­ declined by half-a-billion dollars. Securi­ among the most generous families, too. tion and launches an ironic smile. ties analysts and brokers on both sides of Now, finally, since he's arrived at une He has good reason for irony. A year the Atlantic all but wrote the company age certaine, Mort Mandel has managed ago Mandel was roaring around England offas a viable medium-term investment, to sort out a key objective in the lifelong and the Continent - at age 76-:as the act­ in part because of its failure under Poul­ pursuit of his two main public enterpris­ ing chief executive officer of Premier Far­ son to integrate the two companies' vast­ es and their sometimes-<:onJlicting val­ nell pie. The company is not onlly pulr ly different cultures. ues. He has acknowledged (almost reluc­ licly traded but has international scope Analyst Robert Damron follows the tantly) that he's ready to put behind him and stature. electronics and semiconductor industry his decades-long role as boss, CEO of The Wetherby, England-based distribu­ for the Milwaukee brokerage fum, Cleary what was the Cleveland-based multibil­ tion giant that resulted from the 1996 Gull. He says that at least part ofPF 's lion-dollar parts and supply company he merger of Premier and British company descent may be cyclical. Excess produc­ and brothersJoe and Jack started more Farnell, one ofEurope's largest elcctron­ tiora, according to Damron, formerly with than a half-century ago. ies

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meted some 60 percent from its post­ Another task was to cha.rm business on company business. M Not nearly as merger high of more than $25 a share to writers, who, for the most part, harbored much as he used to, though," Tom says. around $11. deep skepticism about what the press By far, he explains, his father's first And, of course, the prccipntous drop considered an overpriced trans-Atlantic order of business now is philanthropy. in share price meant a huge hit for the merger gone sour. Ultimately, his audi­ 1l1at's clear at Mandel's office on Mandels. Mort and his brothers, who ence in this effort was big investors as Euclid Avenue in Cleveland's MidTown. have remained heavily involved in philan­ well as brokers and analysts on Wall There, receptionists answer the phone, thropy for years, meting out tens of mil­ Street and in "ll1e City," the London "Parkwood ... , " the name of a private cor­ lions to higher education, neighborhood financial district, both of which shared poration run by Mandd, whose role is co developme nt and Jewish causes, retained the business press's skepticism. manage what he calls "the financial assets a 25 percent stake in Premier Famell. Because ofall his traveling, Mandel of the Mandel family, which, considering That stake and, hence, the Mandels' for­ refers to his efforts as "shoe-leather man­ what I had in mind when I was 11 years tune, declined in value as the company agement" and tells cheery stories about old, a.re very considerable." slid. Not only were shareholders holding the experience, making it sound like a A big portion of what Parkwood han­ their breath - and there arc many in grand adventure instead ofth e mind­ dles is the Mandcls' charitable giving, par­ Northeast Ohio, since the Mandels so numbing drudgery it might have been. ticularly from three Mandel foundations, generously shared stock with Premier "I toured plants. I said hello a lot. I met all which, endowed with some $350 million employees - but so were hopeful institu­ kinds ofpeople and different levels of ofth e family's money, support numerous tional recipients of Mandel charity. management, very senior managers in one causes both in Northeast Ohio and Early in 1998, PF's board ofdirec tors room, other management in another. I just around the country. Mort's job is CEO, met in near despair to jettison Poulson, told them what I knew about the busi­ but he's quick to point out that Park­ who had called Farnell's marriage to Pre­ ness,• he says with a shrug. "Much ofit wood is no publicly held company. And mier ~the opportunity of a lifetime" and was telling Farnell people about Premier he runs the organization with a founda­ negotiated payment of those billions for Industrial Corp. They hadn't gotten a lot tion staffand the help and regular advice the U.S. company. That's when director of information. And in these small groups, ofbrothers Joe and Jack. Robert Horton, an Englishman who lived I said, 'Look. What changes wouldyou "We discuss every donation,· Mort in Cleveland for years while running BP want us to make? What's botheringyou?' " says. MAnd, really, we always agree on America, urged the board to ask his old Meanwhile, he also charmed what to do before we do it." He pauses a friend to come aboard, put his knowl­ reporters from Cleveland's Superior beat and adds: "Well, we don't always edge of the industry and fabled manage­ Avenue co London's fleet Street. Susanna agree, but that's why we each have our ment and communication skill to work to Voyle, a tough business writer for the separate philanthropic causes we sup­ turn the merged company around. London Financial Times, was so taken port. On the big things, we agree." "As soon as we accepted the CEO's with Mandel that she dreamily character­ resignation," Mandel, a director himself, ized him as '

Drucker connection "one of the trans­ sets the agenda. to make selling Cokes. It's serious money forming experiences of my business life." "Mort uses language around, 'We want and has helped in the establishment of Drucker, whose throaty voice and to change the world.' And, yeah, he and Neighborhood Progress Inc., an umbrella accent almost perfectly match those of his brothe.rs are serious about that." Over organization for commun.ity-