Palm Beach Country Club

Exclusive country club in Palm Beach, FL

Palm Beach Country Club is a place born out of anti-Semitic prejudice. The resort was built in 1916 by the Florida East Coast Co. on the site of a former gun club. It quickly became one of the most popular venues in Palm Beach. In 1952, a group of investors purchased the club for a reported $1 million. Even by the princely standards of this barrier island resort, the reported $300,000 initiation fee at the Palm Beach Country Club is phenomenal. To get accepted as a member at the Palm Beach Country Club - founded by Jews during the 1950s when other clubs in the exclusive resort town were restricted - you have to be more than rich. You have to be a real mensch, a person of character. And the way to prove that is to show that you contribute a fortune every year to charity.

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Board Members

Robin L Smith President and Chair, Stem for Life Foundation

• Board Trustee

Members

Carol Feinberg Cohen

• Member

Samuel Paley Ukrainian-born cigar mogul

• Member (past)

Noel Levine President of Troon Management Inc.

• Member (past)

E John Rosenwald, Jr Vice chairman emeritus of JP Morgan

• Member

Michael Stein former president and chairman of Bali Company

• Member

Leslie Rose Partner, Edward Rose and Sons

• Member

Joseph C Mandel Cofounded co-founded Premier Industrial Corporation in 1940; cocreated Mandel Foundation in 1953

• Member (past)

Ellen S Jaffe

• Member

Robert M Jaffe Broker for Cohman Securities Crop & business partner of Bernie Madoff

• Member

Bernie Madoff Former Chairman of Nasdaq and founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, arrested in December 2008 for running a Ponzi scheme responsible for defrauding investors of over $50 billion.

• Member

Types	Organization, Other Not-for-Profit
Start date	1952

Palm Beach Country Club

Exclusive country club in Palm Beach, FL

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